How many turns do you "lose" when recalling back to town?

[buzzkill]

such as ingesting an entire box of cough & cold medicine. I guarantee it's not going to be the same as only taking half.

Larvitz, You're not supposed to take half the box, but good point. I prefer the alcoholic analogy.

1 beer=minor effect
3 beers=tipsy
6 beers=drunk
12 beers, 6 jello shots, and some *tequila*=life of the party
24 beers and whatever else you can find not excluding 1/2 beers with cigarette butts in them=vomiting/unconscious/dead

Have players build up a tolerance and/or addiction if they insist on continually quaffing the same potion over and over again.

EDIT: After viewing the redmeat link, I've come to the conclusion that redmeat looks a little like Smeagol...

[Rizwan]

Ah but then why would you not also get xp the second time, and the third time? A steadily decreasing amount until your fail rate approaches zero? The reality is that just casting the spell by itself doesn't accomplish anything and usually in these games you don't get experience unless you accomplish something. Should you get xp for successfully zapping a rod?

Well I guess they don't want you to get any XP shooting your wand ( as it probably is a daily activity )

Maybe the town should have a new little training area with practice dummies, and you can attempt to attack or shoot at them, and the first time you hit them with a new weapon you get some xp

But yeah this sounds good only not have a training area but successfully use a spell/rod/wand/staff for the first time against a monster to get XP and after the first time then no more free XP. (You can only be a virgin once )

[buzzkill]

Well I guess they don't want you to get any XP shooting your wand...

Swing and a miss .

Zapping your rod is the correct answer!

Using your staff would have also been acceptable.

Wielding your staff, unsheathing your sword, hammering Grond, there's a million of 'em.

EDIT: It just occurred to me that if I'm lucky I may have just killed this thread.