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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7879343" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>I’ve had some success breaking players out of the “saving things for later” mindset by framing it in terms of “a resource not used before the next rest is a resource wasted.” I remember back during 4e that revelation totally changed the way I played. Before, I had tried only to use encounter and daily powers when I “really needed them” and actually felt a sense of accomplishment when I got through an encounter having used nothing but at-will powers. At a certain point though, I realized that since my encounter powers came back every encounter, there was no reason not to try to use them all up every fight, and likewise I should try to use up all my daily powers before the end of the day, which generally meant I could use about one Daily per encounter.</p><p></p><p>Years later, DMing 5e, I recognized the same behavior in a player who was playing a Monk. I noticed that she never seemed to use her Ki points, like, at all. When I asked why, she said she was saving them for a more important fight. Having once been of this mindset myself, I pointed out that they recover on a short rest, and that the party was usually able to take a short rest after about two encounters, so if she used less than half her Ki points every encounter, the rest were just going to waste. After that she started using them, sparingly at first, but over time as more short rests got taken with her still having plenty of Ki points left over, she started using them more and more. She never reached the point where she would consistently run out between short rests, but she did perform significantly better in combat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 7879343, member: 6779196"] I’ve had some success breaking players out of the “saving things for later” mindset by framing it in terms of “a resource not used before the next rest is a resource wasted.” I remember back during 4e that revelation totally changed the way I played. Before, I had tried only to use encounter and daily powers when I “really needed them” and actually felt a sense of accomplishment when I got through an encounter having used nothing but at-will powers. At a certain point though, I realized that since my encounter powers came back every encounter, there was no reason not to try to use them all up every fight, and likewise I should try to use up all my daily powers before the end of the day, which generally meant I could use about one Daily per encounter. Years later, DMing 5e, I recognized the same behavior in a player who was playing a Monk. I noticed that she never seemed to use her Ki points, like, at all. When I asked why, she said she was saving them for a more important fight. Having once been of this mindset myself, I pointed out that they recover on a short rest, and that the party was usually able to take a short rest after about two encounters, so if she used less than half her Ki points every encounter, the rest were just going to waste. After that she started using them, sparingly at first, but over time as more short rests got taken with her still having plenty of Ki points left over, she started using them more and more. She never reached the point where she would consistently run out between short rests, but she did perform significantly better in combat. [/QUOTE]
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