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<blockquote data-quote="Retreater" data-source="post: 7637413" data-attributes="member: 42040">One of the key mechanics of D&amp;D over the years has been the idea of resource-draining encounters. You burn torches, you fire arrows, you lose hit points to swarms of mooks, you cast spells from encounter-to-encounter, you scrape by with just enough strength left in you to fight the Big Bad at the end of the dungeon. Or you camp in a &quot;safe area,&quot; hoping your characters can recover their resources without random encounters that further drag out the game and spend more resources.Herein is the problem (for me). My group gets together twice a month, if we're lucky. We get about 3 hours of &quot;quality&quot; time each session (after taking out breaks, snacks, general socializing, etc.) Knowing that the majority of our time is going to be spent with &quot;another ho-hum goblin encounter that will only challenge us by spending a 1st level spell and a few arrows&quot; or a trap that might do 1-6 hp of damage, it just doesn't seem a good way to spend time. Any one else experiencing this? Any work-arounds?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Retreater, post: 7637413, member: 42040"] One of the key mechanics of D&D over the years has been the idea of resource-draining encounters. You burn torches, you fire arrows, you lose hit points to swarms of mooks, you cast spells from encounter-to-encounter, you scrape by with just enough strength left in you to fight the Big Bad at the end of the dungeon. Or you camp in a "safe area," hoping your characters can recover their resources without random encounters that further drag out the game and spend more resources. Herein is the problem (for me). My group gets together twice a month, if we're lucky. We get about 3 hours of "quality" time each session (after taking out breaks, snacks, general socializing, etc.) Knowing that the majority of our time is going to be spent with "another ho-hum goblin encounter that will only challenge us by spending a 1st level spell and a few arrows" or a trap that might do 1-6 hp of damage, it just doesn't seem a good way to spend time. Any one else experiencing this? Any work-arounds? [/QUOTE]

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