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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scribble" data-source="post: 4216383" data-attributes="member: 23977">Thats one way to look at it sure... Until your low HP having budding mage gets killed by falling down a 10 pit and you become not the hero of the story, but the guy on page 35 who gets killed in a pit and had no real bearing on the story.You can still play the budding young mage... Just because your chatracter sheet sas you have x many HPs and special powers doesn't mean your character in game has to know anything about that.heros in stories are always overcoming odds and opstacles that seem insurmountable. In the books maybe they have some sort of special power they never knew they had, or just got a lucky break. The game just makes it easier to model this, without the player actually being as lucky in real life.I think 3e was a poor model at this. So your 4e character has a special ability. Maybe he/she doesn't even know he/she has it in game... when you use it Role Play out the scene where the character manifests said power but has no clue how or why.Player 1: What the hell was that?Player 2: (Looking at his hands that just shot lightning...)I have no idea... Player 1: Can you do it again?Player 2: I don't know how I did it in the first place... it just happened...</blockquote>