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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kzach" data-source="post: 4834789" data-attributes="member: 56189">The adventuring day seems to hinge on two main factors in 4e: healing surges and daily usage. If players have used all their character's dailies, they tend not to want to go on, especially if they think a boss encounter is due. And without healing surges, it's a no-brainer to stop and rest.As I mentioned in a previous thread, I also dislike the accounting to do with milestones so this gets rid of them as well, whilst providing a counter-balance to avoid action points every encounter making the group too powerful.Healing surges are renamed to 'Hero Points'.Any time an item daily is used or any time you use an action point, you use a hero point.You can use as many item dailies in a combat as you wish.You can only use one action point in a combat.New consumable items help rejuvenate hero points during the adventuring day. These consumables can be used once between extended rests. They restore 3 plus the character's Constitution or Intelligence bonus (you refresh the mind and body) of hero points.These include but are not limited to the following:- Elven Bread: a biscuit-like bread that can be stored in a dry container for several weeks without going bad. Is very dry but quite sweet.- Dwarven Meal: this floury substance is the ground grains and other additions that are kept a highly guarded secret. Often ale is added to make a paste that is either ingested like gruel or sometimes cooked in stews as dumplings or baked over a fire into a hard bread.- Orcish Jerky: this is not necessarily of animal content however it is highly nutritious and tastes like chicken.- Halfling's Tonic Water: who knows what is in this stuff! It tastes terrible yet it perks you up immediately and is undeniably refreshing.- Eladrin Elixir: an arcane concoction that few even amongst the eladrin know how to craft. It tastes like a mango smoothie yet is bright blue and quite viscous, with sparkles in the liquid.- Human's Stout: handed down from generation to generation, only the finest ale conners and brewers know the secrets of how to brew this ale. Rumour has it that it must be brewed in a bare earth kettle over a nexus point of ley line energy, however nothing has been confirmed.</blockquote>

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