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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 5303485" data-attributes="member: 996">Encounter powers produce more powerful, more dramatic effects than at-will powers. If you’re a martial character, they are exploits you’ve practiced extensively but can pull off only once in a while.Daily powers are the most powerful effects you can produce, and using one takes a significant toll on your physical and mental resources. If you’re a martial character, you’re reaching into your deepest reserves of energy to pull off an amazing exploit.So, it's 'unrealistic,' is what you're saying.  And that bothersyou.  Yet a wizard can throw a 15' diameter ball of fire every six seconds, all day, but can only cast a 35' diameter once a day, even though, after doing so, he can keep tossing the 15' ones with just as much fascility as before, and that doesn't bother you.It's easy to make the mistake of aplying that kind of double-standard, because people really can and do swing swords IRL, and it's not hard to imagine (or see demonstrations) of what swinging a sword is like.  The same can't be said of casting spells.But the upshot is that, for a martial power, the explanation that a power requires some sort of great effort is not realistic enough.  But, it's fine for any other source.Originally Posted by Kobold Boots  a. Because you only found opportunity to use it once.b. Because your enemies only left themselves open once in the encounter.c. Because it wasn't tactically sound to use the power in the encounter more than once.Now, given a more plausibly 'realistic' rationale for a martial encounter or daily, you find it too 'narativist.'  Now, why is it that a Wizard can't cast fireball more than once per day?  How about a Cleric, why can he only cast Spiritual Weapon once a day?</blockquote>

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