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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jackelope King" data-source="post: 3794289" data-attributes="member: 31454">Not a problem.Agreed. However, per-encounter abilities cannot be reset during an encounter, just as per-day resources can't. That's where your analogy breaks down. Within the context of that one encounter, resources do deplete.That presupposes that your fireball is your most powerful choice. As I illustrated with IH, that isn't the choice in most per-encounter designs. You can't spam your biggest spell because you don't have a "biggest spell". You may have a handful of options that you have to choose between and decide when and if to deploy.It's only "when" if "when=which encounter". There is less emphasis on "which round".I'm afraid your hyperbole is showing. Yes, if you present your PCs with an obviously lop-sided encounter, then they won't have much of a choice with their per-encounter abilities. That doesn't speak to more appropriate challenges.Honestly, I don't. While I greatly appreciate your willingness to discuss this within the context of a single encounter, I am not certain if this is really an adequate cross-section of abilities available to a reaslitic game. However, I am open to the possibility that I'm quite wrong in my initial impression here, and would invite you to continue with your example.</blockquote>