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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5149929" data-attributes="member: 2067">FFZ's limits cross encounter boundaries -- they're things you're expected to use against big boss monsters, but not in normal combats.What I like about a system like that is that it parallels the narrative sway of HP. As your HP get lower, your Crisis Level gets higher, and then you get to unleash a tremendous up-ending maneuver. You could "get at" such a thing in 4e by having there be requirements for daily or encounter powers. That might be similar to an Iron Heroes style "token" system, but you could do it with less accounting, too. Maybe you can't use an encounter power until after your second wind, and you can't use a daily power while you still have Healing Surges left. The ability to use your big nova powers is triggered by how close to the end of your resources you are. This would mess with a few powers (daily powers that last the "entire encounter" are less useful if you can't use them at the beginning of the encounter), but it would help out the dramatic tension, which IMO, trumps most things.</blockquote>