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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9082034" data-attributes="member: 42582">To build on a point that [USER=6785785]@hawkeyefan[/USER] made: imagine that someone picked up the 5e rulebook, read the Noble background feature, read the Action Surge class feature, and - based on the similarity of wording - just decided to treat them the same.In that game Fighter players would be surging left, right and centre, and Noble players would be in audiences with their peers every second moment.And the GM would do their job, of applying the rules, adjudicating consequences, presenting new situations, etc.I don't see any particular reason why that game couldn't work. It certainly doesn't seem to contradict the rules text of the game. And it would seem to obviously be a higher-agency game than one in which the GM decides unilaterally what happens every time the player of a Noble PC seeks an audience.(The first version of D&D that I know of to contemplate something a bit like what I've described is the original OA, published in the mid-80s. Various fighting and martial arts classes had action surge-style abilities ("ki powers") and yakuza had the ability to gather information and get help from their contacts.)</blockquote>