House Rule: Milestones and Daily Powers...

[Pbartender]

Here's something I'm considering as a house rule. Please give me your opinions...

"When you reach a milestone, you regain the use of one Daily power that has already been used."

Be aware that I'm going to be rewarding milestones on a slightly different basis than what is suggested in the book. Milestones will be awarded mainly for achieving important, well... milestones during whatever quest the characters happen to be on. They should happen at roughly the same frequency, but will no longer be related to the flat number of encounters passed.

 

[keterys]

It will encourage people to use a daily at least once every two or three fights, instead of hoarding them all for one big battle... it will also give greater reward for passing the quest milestone and/or make them more prepared for whatever obstacle immediately follows.

But it will also near ensure that they can nova like crazy for that one big battle, and it will mean that their one... more broken... daily gets used a lot. Like every other battle or so.

I think I'd be more in favor of it if there were some limit on the number of dailies used in an encounter, like there is for APs, but less so otherwise.

 

[im_robertb]

What is the problem with the standard rule that you are trying to fix?

 

[Pbartender]

What is the problem with the standard rule that you are trying to fix?

I'm not esactly trying to fix anything, just trying to adjust for preferred playstyle.

Here's my thoughts:

First, some people have trouble justifiying why Daily powers, especially martial Dailies, can only be used once per day. This helps that to a small degree.

Next, my players have come up with a new "work day schedule" for their characters in 4E... As Keterys suggests, they try to horde their Dailies for the Big Boss Fight. However, if they run into an early encounter that proves a little more difficult and requires a Daily from one character, everybody just unloads all their Dailies -- they'll want to rest anyway to get the one back for the BBEG fight, so they might as well use them. This would allow them to use a Daily once in a while during the day, without having to worry about not having all of them for the BBEG (I honestly don't mind them going nova on the BBEGs).

Also, at lower levels, characters have so few Daily and Encounter powers that they run out fast. At heroic levels particularly, getting a Daily back from milestones might help avoid grind in the tougher battles.

It will encourage people to use a daily at least once every two or three fights, instead of hoarding them all for one big battle... it will also give greater reward for passing the quest milestone and/or make them more prepared for whatever obstacle immediately follows.

But it will also near ensure that they can nova like crazy for that one big battle, and it will mean that their one... more broken... daily gets used a lot. Like every other battle or so.

Yep... That's what I was thinking too.

I personally don't have a problem with any of that at this point.

I think I'd be more in favor of it if there were some limit on the number of dailies used in an encounter, like there is for APs, but less so otherwise.

Heh. That's actually another house rule I was considering... Lifting the once-per-encounter restriction on Action Points.