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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7813976" data-attributes="member: 996">Everyone did.But, on the one side, they /always/ applied to martial characters getting, well, much of anything, and rarely to anything else, no matter how precisely it met the definition (which would be continually, revised, often even in a circle).  The whole thing started with a complaint about martial dailies.  The side-bar explanation in the book was that they were exceptionally taxing, one Comeback Strike and you couldn't do another until you'd taken a long rest.  That was objected to as unrealistic, because, how can you be too tired to do Comeback Strike, but still fresh enough to do Thicket of Blades?  So, an alternate, unofficial rationale:  that daily exploits, as the name kinda implies, are circumstantial tricks that you can pull off, with luck, /once/ in the course of an adventuring day.  /That/ was used as the basis for coining Dissociated Mechanics.  The official 'exhausting' rationale is not dissociated, just unrealistic. So, in a humorous, endearing way.  (Quite a trick, when you think about it.)</blockquote>