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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eamon" data-source="post: 5931398" data-attributes="member: 51942">Fighting's tiring.  I could well imagine that it's a bit taxing to sprint that extra bit, and if you try to do high-intensity sports, there's definitely a limit to how often a day you can do so.Of course the model's rather simplified; it's not a given you'd recover after just one extended rest (in fact, I'd say that's probably only possible for well-trained individuals), nor is it likely that overexertion has no influence on normal fighting capability.Still, recovery after intense exercise certainly takes place on the timespan of a day, so in principle a daily recovery mechanic might be a suitably simple rule for such actions.But a little better embedding in the fluff wouldn't harm and could help to make the ability feel more natural.  Some fatigue mechanic perhaps, and initially a slower recovery than 1/day, for instance.  This might be balanced by making the surge more powerful.  But even a well-though-out explanation (which we can't see on the character sheet, of course) could help.This could even be expanded into a more general mechanic for fancy fighter exploits: like a psion has psionic power points, a fighter might have fatigue (or energy or vitality) points he uses to power particularly strenuous moves.</blockquote>