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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nate Jones" data-source="post: 3454770" data-attributes="member: 41976">I'm a pretty neophyte DM, and have justed started the Shackled City Adventure Path.  The first adventure entails the PCs pluming the depths of one 60 room ancinet underground ruins to reach a second dungeon, wherein they are to rescue a few captured children.  Predictably, they ran out of gas 4 encounters into the dungeon, and we ended the session there.  However, never having DM'd nor played a dungeon crawl, I'm quite at a loss as to what happens next.What is standard practice for allowing low-level parties to regain resources? In a large dungeon (60+ rooms), I feel it would be unfair to penalize them for not tackling it all in one go, but I can't see any immediate options that don't strain the credulity of belief. If they rest inside, they are likely to get attacked at night (A bad situation, since they likely are down on resources), or at best, ambushed as soon as they leave their safe zone. If they leave to rest, and then return, it would seem illogical that the dungeon remain static (especially if they do this over the course of, say, one week), but if the foes intelligently set up against the intruders, the PCs' chances of succeeding exponentially decrease. At first or second level, they PCs won't have access to nifty spells like Magnificent Mansion or Rope Trick.  What do most DMs do in these situations?</blockquote>