Unused spell? Do you felt it's been wasted?

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After a hard battle if there is an inn nearby I figure my party deserves a rest in the best room I can get. After a hard battle I usually need a break too.

 

I try to keep going as long as I can. If that means using darts, mirror image, and glitterdust on a lvl 9 sorc to kill 5 hobgoblins or some such, so be it. It's fun to see what tactics you can use in a situation to win when you are really limited on spell picks and aren't loaded up with your "best" spells.

I rest when I think I don't have enough firepower to win the next encounter. Basically that means I have one or two spells left, but I don't care. Not resting until you use all your spells is like telling an archer to fight till he is out of arrows. Nah, he's gonna go buy more when he's low but not wait till he's out completely.

Now if there are always spells left over, start paying attention to which ones are left all the time and in which areas you are. In subsequent plays of the game you can optimize your spell picks and not waste slots on silly things like cure disease, neg plane prot, fire res, etc when you don't need them. OTOH, if you're RP'ing it, feel free to load out everything you "think" you might need but don't hesitate to sleep when your chars would be thinking: Umm guys, I'm totally out of healing spells, maybe we can rest a bit here?

 

I have absolutely no problem hitting the Z button when I'm huddled away in the corner of a beholder hive, standing on one foot in a swamp, racing against time to escape a burning building, etc. My usual plan of attack with my mages involves firing off my entire repertoire of offensive spells, ADHWs and skull traps and flame arrows and such, then taking a light snooze afterwards. All that overkill sure is tiring.

 

Hah, Prine has the rest and relaxation thing down. My characters are just generally indolent, care-free individuals who don't like to fret about like a pining puppy to go get Imoen or chase down Irenicus or rescue some dragon eggs. Casting identify once or twice or maybe casting friends and then shopping is really a lot of work if you sit down and think about it (which I am totally unwilling to do -- accomplishing the task is exhausting enough). When given the choice to take a nap or do physical/mental/emotional activity, my characters would much rather pitch tent.

 

Sometimes my guys will just lie down in the middle of the street and take a catnap - even when they don't need to.

 

Catnaps are great fun. And sometimes I just don't like the number of days my game is saved on so I sleep a few times to bump that number up to a nicer one, preferably prime. At the higher numbers this gets pretty hard so we sometimes just end up sleeping for months at a time, annoying Centurions everywhere.