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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 3756352" data-attributes="member: 158">Dough, I figured your post was a good one to highlight some of my thoughts on the issue:I think a lot of people's concerns are changing that to "1st to 20th after one afternoon", which hopefully will be avoided by more than just downtime. As it is now, the downtime is forced by the recharge time, and added to it by the DM and players as they see fit. If a group maintains 80% of their resources (a quote I remember in one of the blogs, I think) then there's nothing to stop them from clearing Undermountain not in a month, but in a day, in theory. Just WHAT those "per day" resources still are, and if Hit points and healing are two of them, is the important part.At this point, no one put the testers and designers know for sure. I'm hoping it's closer to that "per encounter" system in Unearthed Arcana, because then you at least have things like teleport, plane shift, and miracle as "per day" still. (Or to be precise, per 24 hours.)I think that the changes are, once again, more about insulating game play from bad DMs, since there seem to be more bad and mediocre DMs in this world than good DMs, according to this forum and WotC's. I can sympathize, but I also think there's only so much insulating one can do; ultimately, you can make a system unusable by trying to protect it too much.One good thing - the "per encounter" setup (as described in previous products) is designed in such a way that the recharge mechanism can be altered by a group to suit their needs. If one extended that "per minute" to "per 10 minutes" for example, or "per hour", then time-critical adventures stay viable, resources can run out on someone if they spend them too quickly, and you still preserve the ability to have 3 or 5 or even 10 significant encounters in a day.</blockquote>

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