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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 4080678" data-attributes="member: 20564">Bah.  1st level fighters are 3e's flagship at-will ability based characters, not 1st level warlocks.  Warlocks are johnny-come-lately members of the "just got one things to do" crowd.Round 1:  I swing my sword*.Round 2:  I swing my sword*....The point is that having ONE choice reduces tactical variety.  Having multiple at-will options (say, a mid-level 3e fighter with feats or a mid-level 3ed warlock with multiple invocations and blast shapes) gives more variety.  This seems to give variety (in terms of multiple at-will as well as a seasoning of less-frequent per-encounter and per-day) even at first level.I like options for what I do.  I do like to keep it to a reasonable number of options thought, just to keep things moving.  I love 3.5, but I do get bored with high level combats because it's an hour between actions, and you'll only get 3-5 or so for the entire combat so you need each one to be vastly effective to hold up your part of it.What I want is enough choices to do interesting things, but not too many choices that everyone takes 5 minutes for one action and the DM takes 20-30 between all the different foes on the table.I'm hoping that 4e provides that.  Right now I'm hopeful.Cheers,=Blue(23)* For reasonable large varieties of sword - i.e. whatever your weapon of choice is.</blockquote>