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<blockquote data-quote="Asisreo" data-source="post: 8360985" data-attributes="member: 7019027">I may be the only one that feels this way, but I rarely find resource management tense or exciting or even engaging. Its fun, for me, to manipulate my resources for maximum effect, but the process of running out and the actual state of low resources rarely gives me what I feel like engagement is.It can be tense in a negative way, for me. I often just feel frustrated when I ever feel that my hand is being forced to use a resource I was saving and I get upset when a resource is wasted and doesn't advance our goals. What does, however, make me feel tension and engagement is having these sudden realizations that the enemy we're facing might be stronger than all of us. We can't be sure, but they're casting stronger spells, they have high defenses, they have actions outside initiative, and the stakes to losing is clear. Its not when we fight a vampire spawn and almost lose because we haven't rested for 5 fights that grants tension. Its when we're facing the infamous Strahd and we use our strongest attacks and it barely phases him that we start putting our game faces on. We're putting 100% and we don't know if we'll succeed. That's tense, imo.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Asisreo, post: 8360985, member: 7019027"] I may be the only one that feels this way, but I rarely find resource management tense or exciting or even engaging. Its fun, for me, to manipulate my resources for maximum effect, but the process of running out and the actual state of low resources rarely gives me what I feel like engagement is. It can be tense in a negative way, for me. I often just feel frustrated when I ever feel that my hand is being forced to use a resource I was saving and I get upset when a resource is wasted and doesn't advance our goals. What does, however, make me feel tension and engagement is having these sudden realizations that the enemy we're facing [I]might[/I] be stronger than all of us. We can't be sure, but they're casting stronger spells, they have high defenses, they have actions outside initiative, and the stakes to losing is clear. Its not when we fight a vampire spawn and almost lose because we haven't rested for 5 fights that grants tension. Its when we're facing the infamous Strahd and we use our strongest attacks and it barely phases him that we start putting our game faces on. We're putting 100% and we don't know if we'll succeed. That's tense, imo. [/QUOTE]

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