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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tallifer" data-source="post: 5922935" data-attributes="member: 84661">EDIT: I realize my argument is pointless without any examples. In the Doctor Who New Adventures novels, the Seventh Doctor picks up two companions who are a sort of policemen from the future. The elder one Roz Forrester is the experienced and toughened fighter and investigator. In one scene she pokes out an opponent's left eye with her fingers, but in the eleven novels in which she appears she only does this very effective action once. Of course being Doctor Who, the heroes and heroines do not get into as many tactical situations as a character in Dungeons & Dragons, but being the policewoman from the future gets her into at least one scrape in each novel. Sometimes she kicks them in the groin, sometimes she blows their head off, sometimes she shoots them between the eyes, often she is knocked unconscious and captured in Doctor Who fashion.As for the once-per day thing being too often and predictable: I can see your point in certain campaigns at certain tables. In the games in which I have played, players usually only get to use a daily spell or exploit once every two sessions. Most daily powers only get used one, two at most three times before they are replaced by another higher level power, so they seem exceptional and dramatic. I can see that if a dungeon master likes grinding players through endless combats or if a dungeon master allows extended rests all the time, those daily powers could become mundane and silly.</blockquote>

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