Resource Management, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying About Rations and Love Mana

[Thomas Shey]

Resource management can be abstracted as resistance rolls, with the starting difficulty depending on successes during preparation, and increasing difficulty with each resource roll failure not balanced by some act of foraging, trading or similar.

Some people find that the worst of both worlds because it makes the resource exhaustion random (albeit weighted).

 

[Piperken]

Are you willing to use an emotion/mental health system where the character can get majorly depressed to the point of being suicidal? In your 'torches-and-10-foot-poles' dungeon crawling game?

Yes, if it's well thought out (ie something besides sanity, let's say) and provides cues for players to seize on in the moment.