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<blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 3712500" data-attributes="member: 18832">If you knew anything about the per-encounter abilities already present in the current edition upon which they are basing Fourth Edition per-encounter abilities, you wouldn't be so confused.It's not some magical &quot;Crap, new bad guys, but ooh! My powers have returned!&quot; garbage. All it is, as the Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords demonstrates, is that characters have one- or two-shot abilities which they can have prepared, and which require a minute or two to recover or replace. You can't do that during a fight, but as soon as it's over you have time to catch your breath and prepare your abilities again.Imagine that fireball is a per-encounter spell in Fourth Edition. All that means is that you no longer prepare two or three fireballs per day; now, you prepare one or two fireballs, and when you've used them in a fight it takes five or ten minutes to prepare them again from your spellbook.That's it. There's no game-world definition of an encounter of which the characters are aware - it's all about catching your breath, recovering your energy, and re-preparing your abilities after a fight is over.In the Tome of Battle, warriors had semi-mystical martial maneuvers which they needed to meditate upon to recover; I doubt that they'll have this exact sort of thing in Fourth Edition for your average fighter, but I can also see where a fighter might only have one or two Mighty Blows &quot;in him&quot; without a chance to catch his breath and rest his muscles between fights.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mhacdebhandia, post: 3712500, member: 18832"] If you knew anything about the per-encounter abilities [b]already present in the current edition[/b] upon which they are basing Fourth Edition per-encounter abilities, you wouldn't be so confused. It's not some magical "Crap, new bad guys, but ooh! My powers have returned!" garbage. All it is, as the [i]Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords[/i] demonstrates, is that characters have one- or two-shot abilities which they can have prepared, and which require a minute or two to recover or replace. You can't do that [b]during[/b] a fight, but as soon as it's over you have time to catch your breath and prepare your abilities again. Imagine that [i]fireball[/i] is a per-encounter spell in Fourth Edition. All that means is that you no longer prepare two or three [i]fireballs[/i] per day; now, you prepare one or two [i]fireballs[/i], and when you've used them in a fight it takes five or ten minutes to prepare them again from your spellbook. That's it. There's no game-world definition of an encounter of which the characters are aware - it's all about catching your breath, recovering your energy, and re-preparing your abilities [b]after[/b] a fight is over. In the [i]Tome of Battle[/i], warriors had semi-mystical martial maneuvers which they needed to meditate upon to recover; I doubt that they'll have this exact sort of thing in Fourth Edition for your average fighter, but I can also see where a fighter might only have one or two Mighty Blows "in him" without a chance to catch his breath and rest his muscles between fights. [/QUOTE]

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