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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4118353" data-attributes="member: 40961">Basically, they renew every other encounter.  You get one when you wake up in the morning, and when you complete your second encounter of the day you get another.  Same if/when you complete a fourth.  You can only spend one action point per encounter.In order to spend 2 action points in a day, you would then have to have three encounters.  But since the game is no longer on a "four encounters per day for balance reasons" schedule, that will only happen when story reasons demand.That being said, I agree that there's no real point in using action points as a "spend an action point to take momentary narrative control" resource.  If a player wanted to, say, use a Search check to try to find a sewer entrance in what otherwise would be a dead end alley, I'd do as follows:1: Decide whether it is plausible and appropriate for a sewer to be located in this place.2: If no, tell the player to roll the die for a Search check.  No matter the outcome, no sewer is found.3: If yes, tell the player to roll the die for a Search check.  If the player rolls high, a sewer is found.  If the player rolls low, no sewer is found.Lets say I decide "yes," and the player rolls low.  Later, they come back and search in their spare time, when they can take 20.  I still would keep for myself the option of not having a sewer entrance be found.Until the sewer entrance is found, or conclusively proven not to exist, it exists in an indeterminate state.This is how I do things in 3e, and its how 4e seems to do things.  I really don't see the problem.</blockquote>

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