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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Don Durito" data-source="post: 8127360" data-attributes="member: 6687260">I'm not sure if it's intentional or accidental, but as I said at the start of the thread, having powers be short rest rathrn than encounter does serve a useful purpose.  It breaks up the approach of characters across encounters.  In 4E it wasn't unsual to see the Figher start every encounter with "Come and get it".  After a while the approach to an encounter became somewhat predictable.  (You can break that up with a well designed set piece that prevents players from using their favoured strategies - but that assumes both the ability to design one - and the kind of game where a set piece of that sort is doable.)The short rest means the Fighter needs to consider their resources across more than one combat.  This means that using Riposte for example, is a genuine choice (In 4E I had a barbarian with an interrupt encounter power - unless I was attacked by a minion it was pretty much an automatic choice to fire it off at the earliest possible moment) as I might make better use of the superiority dice in the next combat.  Really Short Rest powers are basically putting the abilities on the same schedule as a 4E action point.  (The rest is just the means not the end).13th Age sort of addresses the same problem but from a somewhat different perspective, using the escalation dice to force a different kind of trade-off consideration (Do I use the ability now, when I'm more likely to miss?  Or hold off until later when I have a better chance to hit, but the monster may also live longer and do more damage to the party?)</blockquote>

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