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So.... why, exactly, is Lay on Hands an at-will?
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<blockquote data-quote="Thundershield" data-source="post: 4839954" data-attributes="member: 55219"><p>While it is debatable whether a party member is worth healing or not, I am curious how you get about being able to use Lay on Hands 12 times a day at 1st level...</p><p> </p><p>Anyway, I follow UltimaGabe's thinking, and it does serve two purposes if the power is turned into a "Daily (Special)" power instead.</p><p> </p><p>First off, your enemy won't be able to use it while you're Dominated (and having the party's Paladin burn a healing surge to restore a quarter of that Solo monster's HP isn't going to make him popular - and Paladins really don't need to be less popular).</p><p> </p><p>Secondly, making it a Daily would allow for various magic items, powers, and effects to restore uses to it, should the players decide they need that. An assortment of powers restore Daily powers or powers in general, but you won't ever see a power that restores an At-Will power (for obvious reasons).</p><p> </p><p>Lastly, by way of consistency, it is a power that can be used X times per day, just like any other Daily, and giving it the (Special) tag would indicate this number to be potentially greater than 1, just like with Healing Word or Majestic Word or even Lay on Hands as written. There's definitely consistency in the proposed change, even if there are no other "Daily (Special)" powers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thundershield, post: 4839954, member: 55219"] While it is debatable whether a party member is worth healing or not, I am curious how you get about being able to use Lay on Hands 12 times a day at 1st level... Anyway, I follow UltimaGabe's thinking, and it does serve two purposes if the power is turned into a "Daily (Special)" power instead. First off, your enemy won't be able to use it while you're Dominated (and having the party's Paladin burn a healing surge to restore a quarter of that Solo monster's HP isn't going to make him popular - and Paladins really don't need to be less popular). Secondly, making it a Daily would allow for various magic items, powers, and effects to restore uses to it, should the players decide they need that. An assortment of powers restore Daily powers or powers in general, but you won't ever see a power that restores an At-Will power (for obvious reasons). Lastly, by way of consistency, it is a power that can be used X times per day, just like any other Daily, and giving it the (Special) tag would indicate this number to be potentially greater than 1, just like with Healing Word or Majestic Word or even Lay on Hands as written. There's definitely consistency in the proposed change, even if there are no other "Daily (Special)" powers. [/QUOTE]
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