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<blockquote data-quote="IceFractal" data-source="post: 3938717" data-attributes="member: 27704">That's why I prefer abilities to be implicitly per-encounter, but defined as an actual length of time.&nbsp; For instance, the Swordsage's manuevers are basically per-encounter.&nbsp; But that's not how they're defined.&nbsp; It takes a full-round per manuever to recover them, thus around a minute to restock after a fight.&nbsp; Not generally practical to recover them in battle, but after an encounter ends, recovering them is easy.&nbsp; So if per-encounter abilities worked something like &quot;usable once, then you must regain focus&quot;, and regaining focus took one minute (to recover all abilties).&nbsp; That would be basically per-encounter, while having a clear definition if necessary.&nbsp; Buffs are a little trickier, because a duration long enought to definitely last the encounter - like five minutes - is also long enough for two short encounters close to each-other.&nbsp; But I don't think that'd be the end of the world; it's certainly better than &quot;goblin on a leash&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="IceFractal, post: 3938717, member: 27704"] That's why I prefer abilities to be implicitly per-encounter, but defined as an actual length of time. For instance, the Swordsage's manuevers are basically per-encounter. But that's not how they're defined. It takes a full-round per manuever to recover them, thus around a minute to restock after a fight. Not generally practical to recover them in battle, but after an encounter ends, recovering them is easy. So if per-encounter abilities worked something like "usable once, then you must regain focus", and regaining focus took one minute (to recover all abilties). That would be basically per-encounter, while having a clear definition if necessary. Buffs are a little trickier, because a duration long enought to definitely last the encounter - like five minutes - is also long enough for two short encounters close to each-other. But I don't think that'd be the end of the world; it's certainly better than "goblin on a leash". [/QUOTE]

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