The Little Raven
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I think Action Points will fill that role, by either refreshing spent powers, or allowing you to use any known power with the expenditure of an Action Point, whether you've used the power or not.
ThirdWizard said:The way I would design it would be:
- Rest for 5 minutes to regain per encounter abilities
- When you regain per encounter abilities this way, lose encounter-duration buffs
This has the added benefit* of allowing PCs control over buff duration.
*unless you don't like that, in which case it isn't a benefit
Mourn said:I think Action Points will fill that role, by either refreshing spent powers, or allowing you to use any known power with the expenditure of an Action Point, whether you've used the power or not.
Dragonblade said:How is that different than casting all your good combat skills in a couple encounters and wanting to camp?
Mourn said:5 minutes versus 8 hours.
A few levels under his belt? A few *dozen* levels, maybe.shilsen said:Reasonable depends on context. Would it be reasonable for a person in our world to be as fresh for his 5th or 10th battle in the same day as his first? No. Would it be reasonable for Achilles or Hercules or Cuchulainn or Bhima to be as fresh for his 5th or 10th battle as his 1st? Hell yeah! And a D&D PC, especially with a few levels under his belt, is a whole lot closer to the mythical characters I mentioned than to anything in our world.
Dragonblade said:I have a black belt in taekwondo and used to compete in tournaments. If I got off a jump 360 roundhouse kick or spin hook to the head, I didn't need to wait until after the match to be able to do it again. I just needed another opening.
Your DM is a dumbass if he allows that. In BO9S it even states explicitly that maneuvers can only be performed against something that is actually a real threat.epochrpg said:Last night this was rather humerous in my group. I was playing a Crusader-- the only healer in the party. When combat was over, and people were still hurt, I would punch somebody (for subdual) to heal someone else! It was kinda funny with some volunteering to take a punch so I could heal them, while others got mad about it. I played it off by knighting the party member in question "and now, no man may clout thee in such a fashion again, arise a knight!" That took some of the sting out of it...
There is nothing "real world"-like about a human fighting a Dragon. That is akin to fighting a angry Lion with the size of an Elephant that is armed with a Flamethrower, and with the intellect of Napoleon or Rommel. You don't get a gun, surprise and you have to survive 30 seconds next to it.Lanefan said:A few levels under his belt? A few *dozen* levels, maybe.But PCs at the usual levels they get played at (1-10 in 1e, 1-whatever in 2e, 1-15 in 3e, and 1-maybe 20 in 4e) haven't achieved that sort of mythical status yet, or shouldn't have; because if they have then what's left for them to achieve at higher (a.k.a. epic) levels. And if the game scales as well as 3e does, 5 or 10 encounters for a 25th-level party should be just as (relatively) draining as for a 1st-level party.
That, and I prefer it if the game at least somewhat reflects the real world where it can...
Please, no name calling. The DM could have just decided to let it go through because he didn't care, needed the party to be ready again for the next fight and he knew he could handle further "abuse" (knowing other DMs are capable of handling parties amassing Wands of Cure Light Wounds...).Darth Cyric said:Your DM is a dumbass if he allows that.