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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kesh" data-source="post: 3754260" data-attributes="member: 1308">Yes, that's what people have been saying. If WotC sticks to what they did with Star Wars: Saga Edition, then "per encounter" abilities are use X times, then spend 1 minute outside of combat resting to regain or use a special ability to regain, even inside combat. In SWSE, you could spend a Force point to re-use such an ability during an encounter.I'm sorry, but you're going to have to give me an example of a 30 minute encounter. In any game I've played where they use "encounters" as a delimiter, it's analogous to a scene change in a movie. For D&D, this is mostly going to apply to combat encounters, and I've never seen a 300 round combat in 3e!I think I understand your hang-up, but it's not as big a deal as you make of it. It doesn't matter that encounters are variable. Let's throw a wild example out.Assume that magic missile is a 1/encounter ability for wizards. The (low level) party is trying to sneak into an encampment, but there's a guard on duty. The wizard casts magic missile and kills the guard. Assuming that does not attract any further attention, the encounter is over. After a minute of rest, the magic missile is ready to use again.Now, if another soldier had seen the attack, suddenly you're under attack by half-a-dozen guards. It's still the same encounter, because the action didn't stop. The wizard either has to go through the combat without magic missile or use a feat/class ability to refresh it.An encounter is basically from the point the action starts to the point where it stops, even if it's just for a breather. In my example, there was never even a combat round unless another guard saw the attack.</blockquote>

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