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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brother MacLaren" data-source="post: 3751994" data-attributes="member: 15999">A general question -- will a "per-encounter" system lead to PCs retreating from a combat and resting for 1 minute (or whatever is necessary) to reset their per-encounter abilities? And a specific response to the idea that a wizard's "thing" is casting spells.  I thought that 3E went a good way towards designing challenges that fit the wizard's OTHER major role in myth and legend -- the Knower of Things.  Wizards' intelligence and problem-solving abilities were called out as assets in the Moldvay red book Basic Set, but were not really quantified until the Knowledge skills came into play.  Now, I worry that 4E is going to drop that aspect of a wizards' role in favor of just spell-slinging.If DMs really enforced Knowledge checks, and tweaked monsters' abilities and weaknesses so that metagaming is impossible, the wizard's Knowledge skills were invaluable.  A good 3E campaign made wizard's intelligence and knowledge just as useful as their spells.</blockquote>