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Message: <blockquote data-quote="justanobody" data-source="post: 4547620" data-attributes="member: 70778">The problem is D&D isn't fiction. It is not some predestined story where the author decides what happens. The DM doesn't just tell a story to a grou of people and call them players to just watch the action.In a real combat situation you can and sometimes do use the same "trick" over and over when it is found to be effective on the opponent.Someone weak against a left hook, why only use it once? That is what the powers are truly representing is a limit on effectiveness to be able to use a tactic that works, and limit what tactics you can do.Say someone wants to play D&D to start and doesn't understand the rules? That person wants to club someone over the head with a hammer because the opponent appears to have weak defenses to that region of the body.Well they get one use of the Crushing Blow feat. Now the next time they try it, they get little to nothing for the effort.No the first hit to the top of the head did enough to cause a status effect, but somehow it prevents any further bad things happening when getting hit on the head with a hammer, and from that point on all possible effort put into adding to the previous injury is rendered moot or less effective while the opponent can still NOT defend that region of his body?If the powers are trying to imitate a novel, then there is a major flaw in them, because people don't play novels, and a set of rules for a game, should not be made to write novels.The more times you hit someone in the head with a hammer, the more damage will be done each time, not less.</blockquote>

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