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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 4580053" data-attributes="member: 12731">Sorry Walther, but I don't buy that.Having to glance at your buddies to check you're not spending too many or too few healing surges doesn't seem like fun to me.Currently, there is this completely inflexible rule that forces you to cut short your adventuring day. Not granting any kind of flexibility to me seems unreasonable and bad. Why is the rule this unrelenting? I can't say I've seen a single good reply. What is the value of forcing players to monitor surges to the point of not concentrating on the adventure fully?If instead the player low on resources is penalized, but not so harshly he will feel forced to persuade the rest of the party to rest, the adventure can go on, and the 15-minute day will finally have been fixed.The penalty for being out of whack with your group shouldn't be put on the group. It should be put on the individual.Having to start over afresh the next day is a group penalty. Getting, say, -2 to attacks is an individual penalty. And it allows the fellow PC who's better at managing his resources to retain his relative advantage.I'm sensing there is a monumental disconnect here. We need to discuss our underlying expectations and notions if we're going to understand each other.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 4580053, member: 12731"] Sorry Walther, but I don't buy that. Having to glance at your buddies to check you're not spending too many or too few healing surges doesn't seem like fun to me. Currently, there is this completely inflexible rule that forces you to cut short your adventuring day. Not granting any kind of flexibility to me seems unreasonable and bad. [I]Why[/I] is the rule this unrelenting? I can't say I've seen a single good reply. What is the value of forcing players to monitor surges to the point of not concentrating on the adventure fully? If instead the player low on resources is penalized, but not so harshly he will feel forced to persuade the rest of the party to rest, the adventure can go on, and the 15-minute day will finally have been fixed. The penalty for being out of whack with your group shouldn't be put on the group. It should be put on the individual. Having to start over afresh the next day is a group penalty. Getting, say, -2 to attacks is an individual penalty. And it allows the fellow PC who's better at managing his resources to retain his relative advantage. I'm sensing there is a monumental disconnect here. We need to discuss our underlying expectations and notions if we're going to understand each other. [/QUOTE]

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