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<blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 5931915">From a balancing perspective, saying that mundane characters should either be unable to do something at all, or be able to do it whenever they want makes for poor balancing.&nbsp; Or at least very limited design.Take the 4e Slayer for example, the triggered/activated/static abilities of Stances allow Basic Attack to do a variety of creative things, but none of them are particularly exciting.&nbsp; They're minor alterations to what a Slayer is expected to do to begin with.&nbsp; The Slayer is interesting, but has limited design space as adding many complex things to &quot;basic attack&quot; with no limitation would quickly become far too powerful.I think it would be interesting to see daily abilities tied into some kind of HP burn, since HP is already acknowledged to be &quot;mojo&quot; as much as it is actual health, let fighters take special actions at some kind of HP burn to represent exhausting themselves.&nbsp; Perhaps tie it in to Warlord &quot;healing&quot; of granting temporary hit-points, ie: more &quot;mojo&quot;, that Fighters could then burn to use special abilities.I think it all ties the concepts together pretty nicely.&nbsp; Warlord gives you a pep talk, granting extra &quot;mojo&quot;, which you then burn to do more powerful abilities.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sunseeker, post: 5931915"] From a balancing perspective, saying that mundane characters should either be unable to do something at all, or be able to do it whenever they want makes for poor balancing. Or at least very limited design. Take the 4e Slayer for example, the triggered/activated/static abilities of Stances allow Basic Attack to do a variety of creative things, but none of them are particularly exciting. They're minor alterations to what a Slayer is expected to do to begin with. The Slayer is interesting, but has limited design space as adding many complex things to "basic attack" with no limitation would quickly become far too powerful. I think it would be interesting to see daily abilities tied into some kind of HP burn, since HP is already acknowledged to be "mojo" as much as it is actual health, let fighters take special actions at some kind of HP burn to represent exhausting themselves. Perhaps tie it in to Warlord "healing" of granting temporary hit-points, ie: more "mojo", that Fighters could then burn to use special abilities. I think it all ties the concepts together pretty nicely. Warlord gives you a pep talk, granting extra "mojo", which you then burn to do more powerful abilities. [/QUOTE]

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