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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viktyr Gehrig" data-source="post: 5943968" data-attributes="member: 9249">Thing you got to remember is, it isn't just martial dailies I have a problem with. I'm okay with having some abilities you can use once a day, or several abilities that you can use a total number of X times per day-- what I'm not okay with, whether it's Martial or Arcane or Divine or whatever, is having several separate abilities, each of which you can only use once per encounter or once per day.I really don't mind spell slots, for instance, as long as they're not the whole magic system. If you have good 4e-style at-wills and ritual magic with them, spell slots are a good resource mechanic for magical abilities. But with spell slots, you can prepare the same spell more than once-- or spam it, if you're a Sorcerer-- and you get a certain number of each level of spell per day.Same way, I don't mind the ki pool of the PF Monk or the arcane pool of the Magus. They're daily abilities, sure, but they're a daily pool of abilities. Not an ideal solution, in my opinion, but if you gave Fighters a ki pool or a tactics pool or a grit pool, I wouldn't cry.I like the concept of having encounter and daily resources for every kind of character. I just think that the 4e AEDU construct is far too rigidly structured to feel organic; it feels very artificial to me, and I hate to be that guy, but it damages my immersion.I'm not a fan of Utility powers being a separate pool from Attack powers. If you have to force people to take some balance between Attacks and Utilities, that's fine-- I suppose-- but they should come from the same power pool. If you've had to Iron Heart Surge three times already to overcome the tyranny of mind control, paralytic poison, and true love... you should have less 'stuff' available for Whirlwind Attack and Sapphire Nightmare Blade.</blockquote>

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