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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 4752767" data-attributes="member: 2011">The powers you mention are nearly all encounter powers and situational dependent.Many skills are nearly non-existent. As an example, how many people actually try Intimidate in combat? Disarm Trap? Detect Magic?The maneuvers you mention typically only apply to melee combatants. In many parties, that's typically 40% or less of the PCs. What good is Bullrushing a foe 90+% of the time? Sure, if he is standing next to a pit or cliff or hazard, but how often does that really happen?Based on situation, the game really has few options. Many options are not viable in a given situation, or use up a resource. The Fighter cannot charge foe #2 without giving an Opportunity Attack to foe #1 that he is engaged with already.If a PC is in melee, is he really going to try to shift away and then swing away on a rope? And even if he does, he did not get an attack that round and how many rounds is he going to do this?It's one thing to list the 12 things a PC can do. It's another to realize that based on the situation (including which powers have already been used), that there really are only 2 or 3 or maybe 4 good choices available at any given moment in time.Are you being subjective with your experiences, or objective?How often is Turn Undead really applicable?Here's a challenge for you. List the actions that the PCs do in your next 3 encounters. Let's analyze them for percentages of At Wills, Encounters, Dailies, skills, maneuvers, etc. Don't tell the players that you are doing this so as to not skew the results.</blockquote>

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