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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aberzanzorax" data-source="post: 4817913" data-attributes="member: 64209">Whoah there, buckaroos. I didn't post this as a "4e is bad" thread.  I do admit that I prefer 3e. This is one of the reasons...because I have an easier time coming up with fluff that makes it feel like I can "become" my character.  My hope with this thread was not to talk about how it can't be done, but to actually attempt to do it.  I figured with enough good examples, I might be able to more quickly and spontaneously come up with good fluff on my own for what is actually happening other than *It's a daily. Can't use it again* When the game becomes about the rules without fluff to back them up, it sucks me right out of immersion. Does the fluff have to be perfect? No. But it can't be totally nonsensical or nonexistent either. A game that is about "I get to move my piece next to the enemy" is different from "Zobar The Furious charges the dastardly Necromancer Dalruk." If I can't DESCRIBE what is happening when I invoke a rule, then I'm playing a game, but I'm not roleplaying. So, I need to figure out how to describe what happens, and have a story idea of why, whatever it is, or the answer really is "because abilities are tiered by power level, so the most powerful can only be used less often". Tell that to Zobar.  So, to reiterate, I'm not asking or trying to prove how it can't be done (describe/explain the use of dailies)..I'm asking for attempts to do it. Some will be better, some worse, and probably none perfect...because ultimately there will always be a way to find a counterexample. It's a simulation of a fanstastical version of real life. Of course no rationale will be PERFECT.   So thank you to everyone who has offered up some rationales, and I'd love to hear more.</blockquote>

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