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<blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 4930343" data-attributes="member: 2011">This is a big issue. I throw the same At Wills and the same Encounters powers over and over and over and over again. zzzzzzzzSometimes, I throw the same Daily power.This doesn't bother some people. It bothers some others, like myself, a lot. In fact, I DM now because playing got so repetitive.You cannot use a ritual (or a scroll) in combat to break it up.In 3E/3.5, only low level was like this. In 1E/2E, it depended on the DM and how many spells the Mage or Cleric or other spell caster acquired.Granted, a player can retrain powers, but that sort of defeats the idea of the PC. In fact, I dislike retraining as a player because it drops continuity. Yesterday I could do this, but today I cannot.In our game, it has been a matter of:Player 1: &quot;Ok, I'm out of healing surges. Let's rest.&quot;Player 2: &quot;Rest??? I haven't used any of my dailies yet and I still have half of my healing surges. I don't want to rest.&quot;We even had a scenario where the Paladin had to hang back (actually was not even in the chamber, but above the chamber out of melee range where we came in) and throw javelins because he was half damaged without any healing surges going into the climatic final battle. None of the other players wanted to stop because here was the BBEG and we wanted to kick his butt now. If we stopped for an extended rest, he might get away or might get reinforcements.Here we were fighting a Demon, something the Paladin's player would have loved to engage close up in melee, and the PC had a side role at best because he would have definitely gone down without any way to heal him.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KarinsDad, post: 4930343, member: 2011"] This is a big issue. I throw the same At Wills and the same Encounters powers over and over and over and over again. zzzzzzzz Sometimes, I throw the same Daily power. This doesn't bother some people. It bothers some others, like myself, a lot. In fact, I DM now because playing got so repetitive. You cannot use a ritual (or a scroll) in combat to break it up. In 3E/3.5, only low level was like this. In 1E/2E, it depended on the DM and how many spells the Mage or Cleric or other spell caster acquired. Granted, a player can retrain powers, but that sort of defeats the idea of the PC. In fact, I dislike retraining as a player because it drops continuity. Yesterday I could do this, but today I cannot. In our game, it has been a matter of: Player 1: "Ok, I'm out of healing surges. Let's rest." Player 2: "Rest??? I haven't used any of my dailies yet and I still have half of my healing surges. I don't want to rest." We even had a scenario where the Paladin had to hang back (actually was not even in the chamber, but above the chamber out of melee range where we came in) and throw javelins because he was half damaged without any healing surges going into the climatic final battle. None of the other players wanted to stop because here was the BBEG and we wanted to kick his butt now. If we stopped for an extended rest, he might get away or might get reinforcements. Here we were fighting a Demon, something the Paladin's player would have loved to engage close up in melee, and the PC had a side role at best because he would have definitely gone down without any way to heal him. [/QUOTE]

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