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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pedr" data-source="post: 9571167" data-attributes="member: 33464">I don't really play MMOs, but this is an interesting comparison and opens up the discussion of 'what limits on using the most powerful powers every attack, or every encounter add to the fun of the game?' Clearly in both MMOs and combat-heavy tabletop games, a significant part of the tactical 'fun' is making choices about what abilities to use and deciding when to use particular resources across a session or period of in-game or real-world time. Maybe there could be some more innovation in this? 13th Age tried to make the recharge of the most powerful powers a narrative rather than time-based thing, and I think that will be clearer in the second edition. Draw Steel basically does the same by limiting a complete recharge to a very long rest in relaxing conditions, so something only possible after the completion (or abandonment) of a quest. But what else could there be? I wonder whether PC abilities could recharge like some monster ones do 'every time you drop to half hitpoints' or 'when you regain a hitpoint while unconscious' maybe. Or even add some kind of meta-currency where you can charge up and recharge powerful abilities by hitting with less powerful ones (gain a point every time you use an at-will power, spend five points to regain the use of an encounter power, or ten points to regain the use of a daily power, etc). 4e was, and is, unashamedly a game. That's usually to its credit, in my mind, because making the activity people engage with when playing D&D fun and engaging ought to be high on the list of priorities when designing a version of D&D. But it does then mean it gets judged as a game, so some of the criticisms of monster design, the potential for analysis-paralysis to slow down combat, and so on are valid. It's why I'm disappointed that 5e wasn't able to be a revision or evolution of 4e, and why I'm hoping to play Draw Steel soon.</blockquote>

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