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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ZombieRoboNinja" data-source="post: 3990097" data-attributes="member: 54843">My guesses: 1. Every five minutes.2. Tough cookies. If they haven't even had a couple minutes to wipe the blood off their faces, they haven't had time to "recharge" anything. And it's up to the DM how often the encounters come anyway, so he could just have that new group of monsters hold off a couple minutes if they're supposed to be a separate encounter. (IMO a partial solution would be to lower the time limit from 5 minutes to 2 minutes.)3. This justification does have its issues (my pet peeve is that a recurring villain will have seen each of your maneuvers maybe a dozen times anyway), but so does any other explanation. If the explanation was "inner will" or whatever, it'd be hard to explain why you couldn't use Maneuver A 5 times in a row rather than having to use Maneuvers A, B, C, D, E and F.  For your particular objection, imagine one of the following:a) Any time your fighter got ready to re-use a maneuver, another monster would recognize it and tell him to look out.b) The maneuver in question is really hard on certain particular muscle groups, and you'd get a cramp if you repeated it immediately.c) Your fighter is under strict orders from his swordmaster never to re-use his top-secret techniques in combat, lest an observant enemy begin to learn their secrets.</blockquote>