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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eamon" data-source="post: 5894855" data-attributes="member: 51942">PC Resource consumption is a critial factor, and I want it to matter.If all the important resources "reload" every encounter; then every encounters starts off rather similar.  It makes it that much harder to provide some exciting diversity.  Some of the most memorable moments in any campaign I've seen arose from unusually (un)balanced encounters.  Sure, it's a little harder to DM, and I think that the degree to which its a good thing varies from group to group (so some flexibility here is a good thing), but I think that the wrong solution to the 5 minute adventuring day is to just make almost everything important recharge every encounter.Also, to some extent, this kind of "spike" is unavoidable anyhow, at least if your game is a little freeform.  Beating the odds - or, putting it dramatically, being heroic - often means being prepared.  This kind of preparation (a trick, a strategy, timing, the right tools) is a really fun thing, and it's almost inherently impossible to just translate that kind of preparedness across encounters - and there you have the seed of a 5 minute adventuring day.I agree that being a spellcaster shouldn't inevitably imply 95% downtime and 5% overpowered action.  I just don't think that the solution to the 5 minute adventuring day is to simply require all resources to recharge by the encounter.  If that's the solution, I think it's worse than the problem.Also, class diversity makes things interesting.  Differing power recharge rates cater to different playstyles and provide for some tension. You can avoid the 5 minute forcibly by taking away the choices that let the players fall into that trap.  But the best solution is inevitably going to involve the story, the world, and the DM.I mean, seriously, a story in which it's OK and consequence-free to just rest for a whole day after every encounter isn't what I'm aiming for anyhow.Isn't there some way we can mitigate this problem somewhat without going whole hog and just getting rid of daily powers?</blockquote>

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