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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yesway Jose" data-source="post: 5624383" data-attributes="member: 6679265">What if encounter 1 was with a water elemental, encounter 2 was with a rock elemental, and encounter 3 was with a fully armored/scaled monster with a missing piece/scale on its backside exposing a fleshy weak spot. Only the DM knows that of course, you can't predict the series of encounters no matter what stance you're in. Would it feel at all unsatisfactory to you if you used the crit daily for the 1st or 2nd encounter, and thus were unable to use it for encounter 3, and you end up slowly hacking away at the monster's armor for rounds and rounds because nobody has a crit power left to get at that weakspot? What if you didn't use the daily up to encounter 3, but you withheld using the power because the monster didn't seem powerful enough to use up a daily and you preferred to save it for the climactic battle encounter 4, and then found out that there was no encounter 4 that day? So you ended up slowly hacking away at the monster's armor for rounds and rounds because the player wanted to save the power for an encounter that never happened? What if used your daily crit on encounter 1, and then at encounter 3, there was some sort of mechanic and/or DM adjudication that allowed you to recharge your daily crit in order to exploit the fiction, would that be satisfying? What is more satisfying -- to apply a critical daily to a powerful water elemental, or to a weaker armored foe with a fictionally obvious weak spot? Finally, do these kinds of issues never come up in actual 4E game play? BTW, I get it that it's not like your PC lost the ability to try to critical in-game. I assume that if you used the daily in encounter 1, then fictionally, your PC was trying to get at that weak spot and just couldn't do it. That's the disconnect for me. I can visualize that weak spot in the armor. I can imagine having some chance (not a certainty, but a hope) to get that blade there and skewer the monster's heart. But I can't. By that point, the story is already written in stone. There's no hope.</blockquote>

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