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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saeviomagy" data-source="post: 4812410" data-attributes="member: 5890">The problem here is manyfold:1. You're adding a lot of complexity to the system.2. You're adding conflicting requirements to PCs. Assuming that your limits actually ever apply, fighters don't care about rests, wizards want to have back-to-back short rests for the whole day, while divine characters never want to rest until they've used up all they have.3. You've totally neglected the flavour of many classes. A rogue pouncing from the shadows suddenly needs to fight for 5 rounds before he can garrote his target! A warlock needs to sit around resting in order to be granted powers from his patron. A warlord needs to get his heart pumping before he can put together a logical strategy. A barbarian needs to meditate to become one with nature in order to rage out.4. You haven't even thought about higher level combat. Once their powers are filled out, characters should be throwing out 4 encounter powers and a daily per combat (more or less). Martial and divine characters will never be able to do this, while wizards will, but will require 10 rests between each encounter.Finally: the flavours you've ended up are different to what you state. Arcane power just requires you to sit around doing nothing all day. Divine power burns up quickly and is unpredictable (and makes any divine character crap comparitively). Martial power appears to only have taken fighters into account, and totally doesn't make sense when applied to any other martial class.I think the payoff here is slim to nil, and the problems are massive. The end effect is just going to be that players don't get to use their cool powers when they want to, and have to track another number, and argue with other party members about whether to rest or not.The only outcome I can see arising from this system is a return to the 1 encounter workday, because that's the only common ground that the party will have.Oh, also: why would you use any power source except for arcane or psionic?Not to mention that psionicists MUST have a 20 in their prime score, or they cannot use dailies.I'm sure I could go on, but suffice to say, you need to actually think this stuff through in terms of how a game will play out.</blockquote>

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