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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 4900495" data-attributes="member: 94">That's right, it will. There will be some tension between players who want to continue, forcing the "long term buff" guys to spend an action point to refresh those slots-- which they can use to immediately re-cast the same buffs--  or to wait until the next day, when the long term buff guys can get all their slots refreshed for free, and then they cast all the same buffs.Pay 1 AP and continue, or force the whole party to wait till the next day in order to save 1 AP.This is part of spellcaster balance.I have my suspicions how the above party discussion will usually work out.(The Party Pool is also there for this reason, among others.)No, Trailblazer really isn't written with the diametrically opposed mindset. You are conflating, "I can't be WAHOO! with my quarterstaff-wielding character concept, because the spear is a little bit better, therefore quarterstaves are for suckers and I have to use the spear..." vs."I can't be WAHOO! with my cleric-wizard concept, because multiclassing spellcasters makes me suck beyond playability."One "problem" is worthy of serious consideration. One is not.My job as a designer is not to make sure that all options available to the players are equal. My job as a designer is to make sure that if one option does get picked over the other, that the sub-optimal decision is still playable and enjoyable. The quarterstaff passes that test with flying colors, with or without the changes we made. The half-orc passes that test with flying colors, with or without the changes we made.Some players want to play the game. Some players want to beat the game. I am not concerned with the players who want to beat the game, with those who find joy every time they demonstrate its unplayability through their ability to break it in various (often silly) ways.I find my opinion on the matter fairly Gygaxian, in fact.Yes. One is clearly better. And so you have reached an early decision point, and that decision will define you.I am not picking on you, jasin. I appreciate the opportunity to vent on a sore subject. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />EDIT: The reason it is a sore subject is because it feels to me, in my gut, that it falls under the same umbrella of player-entitlement and tyranny of the rules.</blockquote>

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