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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9107902" data-attributes="member: 2209">For us fantastic. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />This was in a high paragon campaign, I was playing a swordmage.Mostly it meant I could regularly do a lower level daily that lasted for the encounter every fight, so in fighting frost giants I could make my sword flaming every fight but not for as much damage as if it was a full level daily. In effect this smoothed out novas and provided a more stable baseline of party power each fight that the DM could gauge and base opposition off of for planning purposes. Also since the dailies could be used more often both the DM and the players got more familiar with them and their effects.The DM had thought that prior to that with a large party of high level characters it was very swingy depending on how many people used how many dailies which was very variable for our group and made it tough to judge pacing of combats. For a group of six PCs with three dailies each that could be potentially zero to 18 dailies in any given fight which is a decent power swing variable.Since resource management styles were different in the group (one guy used every daily first chance he got no matter what and had trouble remembering they were not at wills, another regularly forgot he had dailies and encounters) this houserule also led to better combat balance in the group too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9107902, member: 2209"] For us fantastic. :) This was in a high paragon campaign, I was playing a swordmage. Mostly it meant I could regularly do a lower level daily that lasted for the encounter every fight, so in fighting frost giants I could make my sword flaming every fight but not for as much damage as if it was a full level daily. In effect this smoothed out novas and provided a more stable baseline of party power each fight that the DM could gauge and base opposition off of for planning purposes. Also since the dailies could be used more often both the DM and the players got more familiar with them and their effects. The DM had thought that prior to that with a large party of high level characters it was very swingy depending on how many people used how many dailies which was very variable for our group and made it tough to judge pacing of combats. For a group of six PCs with three dailies each that could be potentially zero to 18 dailies in any given fight which is a decent power swing variable. Since resource management styles were different in the group (one guy used every daily first chance he got no matter what and had trouble remembering they were not at wills, another regularly forgot he had dailies and encounters) this houserule also led to better combat balance in the group too. [/QUOTE]

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