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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 3940503" data-attributes="member: 710">There is a disconnect between the details of the implementation and the design concept behind it.The design concept is having abilites that are available once (or any other limit) per encounter or last for one encounter. The implementation defines costs for "refreshing" abilities in a way that makes it hard (ranging from "expensive" to "impossible") to do it within a typical encounter. Examples are- 5 minutes of rest (impossible during an encounter, since you're obviously involved in doing something "restless") - Taking an action (taking actions worth one round to to regain an ability that doubles your damage per round is rarely useful.) Both have the advantage of removing the arbitrariness of defining what an encounter actually constitutes, where it ends and where it starts. It's a bit more difficult for me how to do this with durations, though. It's possible that it takes an action to "refresh" the duration of a buff (maybe one action every 5 minutes?), so it effectively lasts the whole combat. (But this would make it also an all-day ability, which might mean that:- you have to choose which of the possible buffs you want to use (no more stacking half a dozens fo spells)- you can do it only a limited number of times per day- something far better than I can come up with.</blockquote>