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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 4112738" data-attributes="member: 32536">Well, many people argue that things like per-encounter and per-day abilities, especially Martial powers as they are implemented in 4E, make the most sense as a system designed for the player to do certain things when dramatically appropriate according to genre traditions, rather than something which makes sense from a simulationist point of view. Other abilities, like Second Wind, are specifically designed to emulate the common image of a hero who pushes himself to stand up and keep fighting in the face of injury. In other words, D&D 4E is using its rules to model how events flow in a story, rather than try to model how events flow in a world.Because most of D&D 4E's rules seem to built around making the game play out like a dramatic and memorable story, I think it can be argued that this is a kind of narrative-style game, though probably a different kind than other narrative games, where narrative control is more explicit.If you look at some interpretations of how the non-combat skill challenge system works, such as what some people describe in the "Escape from Sembia" thread, then you might see a lot more of the narrative influence upon the game in action.</blockquote>