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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aberzanzorax" data-source="post: 5975716" data-attributes="member: 64209">Here's another one. similar to the "earn part of a level" suggested fom 13th age.  Use the escalation die across encounters, resetting upon resting.  There is a great article in the current Kobold Quarterly about using the escalation die in an encounter. I'll translate that to the "day".  Give all monsters +1 to AC.Encounter 1. Players get no bonus (it's harder than usual, but they have all of their resources)Encounter 2. Players get a +1 to hit. (Breaking even)Encounter 3. Players get +2 to hit (making it easier, but they have fewer resources). Players get +1 more to hit all the way up to +6, and it remains at +6 for all additional encounters. At the end of the day, melee characters have +6 to hit everything, which is great for them for a BBEG fight. If caster classes have saved their spells, they'll also have +6 to hit.   The idea here is to save your dailies until they'll be most likely to be effective.Call it a "(over)confidence versus desperation" mechanic.   NOTE, with spellcasting:Another option in the article (for systems like Pathfinder and 3.x) is to also give spellcasters a bonus to the saving throws required by their spells. There were fewer details in this regard (as I remember), but I'd work this to the effect of all monsters getting +1 to all saves (as they do with AC) but only improving the save penalty by half of the attack bonus (rounding down). That'd be 2 rounds at a penalty, 2 rounds breaking even, and any rounds beyond that with bonuses from +1 to +3. (As we saw in 3.0 they overdid spell dc stacking is more dangerous than attack bonuses stacking).</blockquote>

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