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<blockquote data-quote="fba827" data-source="post: 5999841" data-attributes="member: 807">addendum to my last post --looking over your list of suggested fixes more closely...a) as an outsider, it seems like a lot of house rules to potentially have to reference during the game and something i might consider a bit too much.&nbsp; but obviously my opinion doesn't matter on that part since that is a personal feeling sort of thing that you and your group should decied what is too muchb) in general you do seem to be hitting it... need to find a way to convert existing daily resources (surges, daily powers) in to things like skill checks or story elements since that is what your PCs are more involved inc) if you didn't go with the healing surge options you listed, you could try halving each PC's number of surgesd) one that gives me pause is the whip something up. just seems like getting an item for a daily power is a bit much.&nbsp; particularly since some items will have daily powers and properties of their owne) spontaneity might need to take in to account the number of daily powers (or combined total of levels of daily powers expended). of course i don't know much about the purple card method so i don't know what to suggest, but maybe something like 'expend all daily powers. for each daily power expended this way, you can pick one card and of those cards pick one' thus allowing a player some choice for being willing to sacrifice more daily powers at the start rather than sacrificing one much later on.f) expedited travel may be unnecessary as it is very similar to a bardic ritual in phb2. if you have a bard with rituals a very similar thing could be achieved using the ritual options rather than needing a whole separate rule just for that</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fba827, post: 5999841, member: 807"] addendum to my last post -- looking over your list of suggested fixes more closely... a) as an outsider, it seems like a lot of house rules to potentially have to reference during the game and something i might consider a bit too much. but obviously my opinion doesn't matter on that part since that is a personal feeling sort of thing that you and your group should decied what is too much b) in general you do seem to be hitting it... need to find a way to convert existing daily resources (surges, daily powers) in to things like skill checks or story elements since that is what your PCs are more involved in c) if you didn't go with the healing surge options you listed, you could try halving each PC's number of surges d) one that gives me pause is the whip something up. just seems like getting an item for a daily power is a bit much. particularly since some items will have daily powers and properties of their own e) spontaneity might need to take in to account the number of daily powers (or combined total of levels of daily powers expended). of course i don't know much about the purple card method so i don't know what to suggest, but maybe something like 'expend all daily powers. for each daily power expended this way, you can pick one card and of those cards pick one' thus allowing a player some choice for being willing to sacrifice more daily powers at the start rather than sacrificing one much later on. f) expedited travel may be unnecessary as it is very similar to a bardic ritual in phb2. if you have a bard with rituals a very similar thing could be achieved using the ritual options rather than needing a whole separate rule just for that [/QUOTE]

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