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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stilvan" data-source="post: 4133251" data-attributes="member: 56264">I don't think there's any real-world way to justify daily martial powers.  I believe they are daily partly for balance reasons but also to give the designers leeway to create really heroic maneuvers without worrying about the players using them to the exclusion of everything else.  In a strongly realism-oriented game, like GURPs for example, you have to balance the benefits of a fancy maneuver with a set of drawbacks because you know that anyone can use it at any time.  So for example, you can attempt a whirlwind attack at will but you will suffer fatigue, must make a balance check and your chance of hitting is significantly reduced (not actual rules here btw but I think this conveys the idea).  Often the drawbacks are so significant that you have to wait until the optimum moment to use the abiliity anyways - which effectively makes it 'daily' in any case.  I think D&D, particularly 4e is trying to build a more heroic environment that maps more to fantasy fiction than to reality.  So limits are placed on how often you can use a power, but there are few to no drawbacks when using it.  Conan might cleave a soldier in half and carrying the momentum lop off another soldier's head, but he doesn't do it in every battle.This is how I justify it in any case.Edit:  Hah - must learn to type faster  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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