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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 3859715" data-attributes="member: 1003">You do know there will be both At-Will and Per-Encounter abilities in 4E, right?  I know some people miss stuff (it's easy to do), so I'm just making sure we're all on the same page.Anywho, if you ignore the names (powers, spells, abilities, etc.) every class has had an "at will" ability since the OD&D Basic Set: "I swing my sword."  By the RAW you can do that At Will all day without getting tired, followed by 8 hours sleep.Fighters can still do that, and Longswords have been bumped from 1-6 up to 1d8/19-20/x2 in the interim.  Crossbows are good too though, and at 1st level when Wizards and Fighters have an attack bonus no more than 4 pts apart, the Wizard's crossbow is worth something.  It becomes pretty useless right quick though.  So effectively, in 3E, Wizards have no meaningful at will abilities past 4th level.So by 6th level you have Fighters with 1d8+1d6+5 at will and Wizards with 6d6 twice a day.Now in 4E they'll still have that, but also Wizards will have 1d8+1d6+5 at will too (Eldrich Blast) and Fighters also get 6d6 twice a day (the "Kill Every Mo'fo in the Room" special whirlwind attack maneuver (totally made this up)).But there's a middle ground between 6d6 2/day and 2d6+4 at Will.  Somewhere around 4d6+2, probably.  That's too good to allow people to do that at Will, but maybe once a fight it would be OK.  You know, you're chugging along, doing you 2d6+4 with the Pistol or Vibroblade or whatever, and then you need something bigger, so WHAMMO, you take out the repeating shotgun (but not the rocket launcher) and give that Demon Spawn a half-clip of slugs to the face in a hail of shot.Wait, I'm sorry, what ... was that the wrong genre?  MY BAD. I thought I was on a DOOM IV board for second there ...But you know what I mean.  There's a "Momma Bear" amount of damage between your "old reliable" and your "nuke it from orbit" attacks.  We call that the "Per Encounter Ability."</blockquote>

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