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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3827061" data-attributes="member: 18280">JK, your formatting is screwed up, making it difficult to answer.It does.  "If there is no cost to using a resource, and benefit to be gained from using that resource, the odds are extremely high that the resource will be used" is, AFAICT, a pretty universal statement.If that logic did not apply to per-encounter resources, then the switch to per-encounter resources would solve the problem, as Wyatt suggests.No, I would be an idiot for using a per-encounter resource if I had a more powerful per-day one, there is no cost to using it.  Likewise, I would be an idiot to use a resource if it had a high associated cost and I could accomplish my goal without using it.It is the tension between these positions that, to a large degree, makes the selection of resources to use a meaningful decision.  Obviously, there are other factors, such as knowledge of what resources will actually achieve a goal (represented in game terms by, for example, the uselessness of using a fire resource against a creature immune to fire).  There are also a number of ways in which a resource can be given an associated cost, as has been described upthread to some degree.  But it is nonetheless true that a cost/benefit analysis is a major key to meaningful decision making, and removing the need to analyze cost/benefit greatly reduces the meaningfulness of the associated decision.This is not a contradiction.  It is how we decide to resolve the Catch-22 that is, IMHO, the greatest source of fun in the game.While in the current and past D&D paradigms (and I expect 4e as well), death has been by far the most commonly used "lose" condition by the average DM, I have already agreed many, many, many times that other "lose" conditions exist.However, death is the obvious route for DMs to impose lose conditions.Likewise, if the obvious route leads to a 15-minute adventuring day, that means the rules need work.RC</blockquote>

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