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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alex319" data-source="post: 5138640" data-attributes="member: 45678">I'm not sure that such a system will have the effect you seek, and here's why. In many ways, 4e is essentially a game of resource management, where hit points and healing surges are just one of the resources you are managing, just like encounter an daily powers. For example, let's say a player can burn 5 hit points to get enough exertion points to use an encounter power one more time, and on average that makes the monster live one round less, and the monster does 10 damage per round on average. Then the player will always want to do this because it saves hit points, even if they aren't in any real danger from the monster. In fact if they are in a tough situation they might be even less likely to use this system because they need to save every hit point they can get. Also characters like wizards that tend to stay behind the front lines will be burning hit points and healing surges for this constantly, because normally they don't get hit much anyway. Probably what you want is a system where the thing you are risking for extra power is something that has a long term effect, like some sort of long lasting wound system. That way there is a real trade off between short term power and long term effectiveness.</blockquote>