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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 4641511" data-attributes="member: 99">I literally, just moments ago, got done typing up my "Core Concepts/House Rules" document for my campaign, including my Action Stunt rule.My philosophy is that I want the players to be able to do this kind of thing, just not all the time.  If it happens all the time then it starts to become a contest about which player can impress me with their cool creativity.  I love cool creativity but that's a lot more work (constantly adjudicating) and more time (for the same reason) and can lead to irritated players (not everybody is equally creative).  So I simply imposed the use of a finite resource for these stunts:Action Stunt:  Instead of taking an extra action when spending an Action Point, a PC may instead opt to also spend a Healing Surge and do something that fits the basic concept of the character but goes beyond their normal powers.  Such Stunts will be adjudicated on a case by case basis but players are encouraged to come up with ideas in advance that could be used as defaults and benchmarks for when the PC tries such things.Now I was thinking of stuff that goes outside the PC's normal powers altogether.  If I was confining it to simply add a condition or feature to an existing stunt (as presented in the OP) then I might lower the cost.  If I wanted to be conservative then I'd probably just make them spend the AP (and no Healing Surge).  If I wanted these to come into play more often then I could just charge them the Healing Surge.  My only hesitation about that latter move is that it could lead to something closer to the "15 minute adventuring day" where they burn through all their Healing Surges with Stunts.  But there are ways to mitigate that.</blockquote>

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