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<blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6277978" data-attributes="member: 17106">I concur. The 3e PHBII knight generated some significant issues, but then the barbarian and a few other esoteric examples preceded it (and then there was TOB).My point above is that one of three things happen with these types of abilities: people run out of uses and complain that there's no good reason their ability doesn't work, people become paranoid and never use their limited resources, or the resource is sufficiently plentiful when compared to the demands placed on its use that it rarely runs out and is simply irrelevant. In the third case, no one complains of dissociation because they're never in a position to notice it. Which one of these scenarios will play out depends on factors like how many use-limited abilities the character has, how many uses he has, how central they are to his success, and so on.But as I see it, it's always going to cause one of those three scenarios, and they're generally all bad.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ahnehnois, post: 6277978, member: 17106"] I concur. The 3e PHBII knight generated some significant issues, but then the barbarian and a few other esoteric examples preceded it (and then there was TOB). My point above is that one of three things happen with these types of abilities: people run out of uses and complain that there's no good reason their ability doesn't work, people become paranoid and never use their limited resources, or the resource is sufficiently plentiful when compared to the demands placed on its use that it rarely runs out and is simply irrelevant. In the third case, no one complains of dissociation because they're never in a position to notice it. Which one of these scenarios will play out depends on factors like how many use-limited abilities the character has, how many uses he has, how central they are to his success, and so on. But as I see it, it's always going to cause one of those three scenarios, and they're generally all bad. [/QUOTE]

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