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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Don Durito" data-source="post: 7828727" data-attributes="member: 6687260">I'd considered something similar.  I'm not sure I'd do this if I was approaching things from scratch, but the potential benefit of this is that it gives the Fighter a bit more of a nova option without necessarily being beneficial over the course of an adventuring day.So for example (talking 5e).  You could say the Fighter can regain Action Surge by spending a Hit Die.  This is probably not a good idea if you are doing the full 6-8 encounters adventuring day so the Fighter remains basically the same under those conditions - but if you're confident of only one encounter a day - or you're entering a final boss battle in good condition - then you've got some extra oomph to feel like you're not being overshadowed by the Long Rest classes.As for extra features - I'd considered just adding in the Purple Dragon subclass features for second wind and action surge to the base class.  They help give the Fighter a bit more of a warlord feel and therefore a bit clearer identity - and it's not so much of a balance issue as they mostly help the other PCs to be more awesome too.But remember, for the purposes of this discussion, we're not just focusing on 5E.</blockquote>