[The Riddick]

Some days ago I read a thread about trying to play as real as possible, and by this I mean, not resting after every single battle, not having characters with INT and CHA subhuman ( 2, 3 and so on) and some other things. Well, I tried, but I found that it is really difficult, almost impossible to play like that. And as an example you have the terrible battle where your party get the Holly Avenger. I ended with almost no spells of any kind, so low in potions that I didn´t have more than 10 between all my guys and the fella with more hitpoints was, of course, my fighter/barbarian dwarf, with 62. My wizard, rogue/fighter and monk were under 10 hp, and my palladin and druid/fighter close by. In THIS situation it´s totally necessary to rest, doesn´t matter if you just rested prior to the battle, right guys?.
The problem with trying to play a computer RPG as a normal RPG is precisely that... that is not a normal RPG!. In a normal RPG you can always find something else to help you, an itinerant cleric that will heal you, nice NPCs that will gladly heal you for free, because, c´mon!!, you just saved Kuldahar and their Tree from total destruccion and Iselore still wants you to pay for the healing?, looks to me like the D&D version of Mr. Scrooge, or someother thing that the Game Master decides can heal the group. Anyway, what I want to say is, yes, play as realistic as possible, as a matter of fact, the game is funnier that way, but sometimes the realistic way just has to go down the loo, because everybody wants to finish the game, right?, and you don´t finish it with a dead party.