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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Texicles" data-source="post: 5963132" data-attributes="member: 6694608">Interestingly enough, some of the innovations in MMO ability design revolve around the concept of a zero-cooldown abilities that are limited by some resource mechanic like mana. During an extended period, this resource may run dry, but on a small enough time table, say one encounter, this resource is not practically limited. (Yes, I know that encounter design in MMOs varies greatly, but let's use a handful of kobolds as the metric by which we judge "one encounter")In essence, this is very similar to your proposal of at-will style powers and encounter-centric design making up the bulk of the core, and a design direction that I think has a definite place and utility, especially for newer players. Like them or hate them, MMOs pulled a lot of design elements from tabletop games, and built on those things. I'm a firm believer that the tabletop industry, in it's long, methodical (maybe even ponderous) process of evolution, can in fact learn from it's developmentally faster-paced cousin.That's not to say everything needs to be about tactical combat a la 4E, but we shouldn't throw out good ideas that come from a set of changes because we don't care for a few of them. All this does is lead to grognardism, which I'm rather convinced will ultimately be more harmful to the RPG industry than anything new that WotC, Paizo, et. al. may try doing, successfully or otherwise.TL;DR I dig your idea. Even if it has more in common with MMO design than you think.</blockquote>

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