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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4003364" data-attributes="member: 710">A "realistic"-feeling approach might be to give an explicit preperation time for each individual spell or ability. Instead of saying preperation takes 1 hour after dawn, say a n-th level spell requires m minutes to recharge for a o-th level caster. But that will be pretty awkward, and how much does it benefit the game?In some ways, an adventure is made from the buillding blocks of "encounters" or "challenges" If you have a long adventure, you will have more encounters/challenges then in a short one. But this doesn't tell you wether it will take a long time in-game (e.g. are the challenges all a time against the clock and must be done within a single day, or does it involve weeks of overland-travel). Abilities that use a time-frame outside this building block basically force you to accomondate these times. Maybe one approach might be: "Okay, this is a 14 challenges adventure. This means you get 14 tokens/action points/drama points/possibilites at the start of the adventure. You can use them to buy your spells and hit point regenerations in the course of the adventure. That's it." But maybe this is just the same as saying that you get "per encounter" powers, except that per encounter powers don't allow long-term resource management.This reminds me (as so many discussions involving this points) of Torg. You got the "possibilities" at the end of the adventure there, but the amount was usually related to how long (play-time/ # sessions -> number of scenes) the adventure lasted. The idea might have been to give one possibliity per "plotted" scene in the adventure. (The system broke a little bit down when involving races or classes that needed possibilities to retain their abilities. Short adventures usually didn't reduce these costs, but they gave you less possibilties)</blockquote>

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