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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4940389" data-attributes="member: 710">If you want the characters to use different attacks every round, I don't think &quot;build your own power on the fly&quot; system will help you. It makes it highly likely the player figures out the optimal set of &quot;improvised&quot; powers and repeat them over and over again.The alternative is that they suffer an analysis paralysis far greater than the existing power system already causes, because they choose from a large catalogue of options they have to create in their head.&nbsp;If you want characters to use different powers every encounter, force them to &quot;retrain&quot; all their encounter powers after every short rest and every daily power after their extended rest. No repeated power selections between extended rests for encounter powers, so every fight sees a new combination of powers.But even that won't avoid your players using the highest damage power available regardless of secondary effects. If the players do that, the fights are probably to easy and they haven't had the need to actually use the secondary effects to get tactical advantange that aid them in dealing more damage or avoid taking damage.---Though I must admit I am still always interested in &quot;buy-the-numbers&quot; system for combat maneuvers. I just don't believe it will ever actually work that great in actual play.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 4940389, member: 710"] If you want the characters to use different attacks every round, I don't think "build your own power on the fly" system will help you. It makes it highly likely the player figures out the optimal set of "improvised" powers and repeat them over and over again. The alternative is that they suffer an analysis paralysis far greater than the existing power system already causes, because they choose from a large catalogue of options they have to create in their head. If you want characters to use different powers every encounter, force them to "retrain" all their encounter powers after every short rest and every daily power after their extended rest. No repeated power selections between extended rests for encounter powers, so every fight sees a new combination of powers. But even that won't avoid your players using the highest damage power available regardless of secondary effects. If the players do that, the fights are probably to easy and they haven't had the need to actually use the secondary effects to get tactical advantange that aid them in dealing more damage or avoid taking damage. --- Though I must admit I am still always interested in "buy-the-numbers" system for combat maneuvers. I just don't believe it will ever actually work that great in actual play. [/QUOTE]

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