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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 9787641" data-attributes="member: 6677017">They eventually used one or two of them because they did have an opportunity to prepare (assault on the Sahuagin fortress in Ghosts of Saltmarsh after scouting it with a familiar, and then ambushing the local Scarlet Brotherhood meeting after months of investigation).But that is the exception. In dungeons taking short rests is a thing, and many encounters aren't easy to spot ahead of time. And when you can spot them and prepare, you aren't going to prepare with expensive consumable resources when you can cast spells instead.And then there are random wilderness encounters, which is one of my favorite parts of D&D.The only times they make sense to use is when they actually did get used: a climatic encounter that had been building up to for a while, they had the opportunity to prepare for immediately before, and knew it would be tough enough to justify putting non-renewable resources into.So for us, that's been about three times in 6 years.</blockquote>