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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 4064358" data-attributes="member: 58197">The 15-minute adventuring day is perfectly good role-playing.  It may not be as much fun, it may not be heroic, but it's not bad role-playing and it's not metagaming.  In a world with D&D-style Vancian magic, where the basic "laws of magic" (casters have a limit on how many spells they can prepare, and must stop and rest before they can prepare new ones) are well known to the characters, the 15-minute adventuring day is an eminently logical strategy for people engaged in such dangerous pursuits as adventuring.Remember--if your character dies at a level where you don't have access to resurrection magic, or in a TPK, you get to make a new character, but your character dies for good.  And your character doesn't know there's a DM ensuring the party only has to defeat level-appropriate challenges.  Given the risks--given that one prepared spell can easily make the difference between life and death--is your character really so reckless as to not seize the opportunity to "recharge" whenever possible?  Only the most gung-ho, battle-crazed maniacs would push on past the casters' comfort zone if they had the option to stop and rest.My experience has been that most players default to the 15-minute adventuring day out of simple prudence.  If an adventuring party is placed under time pressure, it will step up its efforts, but only as far as it has to; if it can get the job done with 30-minute adventuring days, it will do that.  The characters are simply following the incentives given them by the laws of their reality.A pre-industrial army can often move much faster than its supply train.  It doesn't do so, however, because the risks of outpacing your supplies far outweigh the potential benefits except in a severe time crunch.  Why would adventurers take the risk of outpacing their caster support?</blockquote>

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