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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4688592" data-attributes="member: 2067">I'm not a HUGE fan of the "switch out powers" idea, just because that's some probably-unnecessary bookkeeping. Once you have the powers, you have the powers. There's enough to keep track of with the powers you actually have, let alone switching them out."Floating Powers" might be super-fine to add some noncombat variety, but part of the problem with 4e noncombat is that it's too much "everyone can do everything," and the concept of floating powers (that anyone can take them) exacerbates, rather than solves, this problem. Though if you limit them by power source or race or skills or something, you might get a good level of granularity, so that might work anyway. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'm really liking floating utilities. If utilities aren't really part of your role/class/build suite to begin with, there'd be no harm in making utilities that EVERYONE can access instead of your normal utilities (and here, arranging them by power source or skill training would make a lot of sense, and can add variety).The idea of using AP came mostly from the whole "we don't want them to build a character around these abilities" angle, keeping the ability rare. That rarity also allowed it to be pretty significant when it did happen, and so, Moments of Glory. If you'd rather they play a more toned-down role than a crowning moment of badass awesome role, the "floating powers" seem best suited to utility powers. Using AP isn't really critical to the idea, just something I thought would reflect the rarity and awesomeness of these heroic moments. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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