When you get a Twice-per-Encounter Power once per day...

[Lord Xtheth]

Instead of it being an encounter power, it is now a Daily power where in one encounter you can activate it multiple times.

As opposed to every encounter you may activate it multiple times

 

[Zurai]

Instead of it being an encounter power, it is now a Daily power where in one encounter you can activate it multiple times.

No. The feat doesn't say "You can use Healing/Inspiring Word as a Daily Power." it says "You can use Healing/Inspiring Word once per day."

 

[FadedC]

I'll throw my support behind once per day too. I never even considered the other until I saw this thread.

It says you can use healing word once per day. Normally you can use healing word twice per encounter, but that is changed by the specific rule. Seems pretty clear. I think some people are thinking more about how they WANT the power to work....

 

[Yaezakura]

I think some people are thinking more about how they WANT the power to work....

And, we have a winner. Too many people are focused on what they want instead of what's actually written there in black and white.

 

[Otterscrubber]

I vote for twice in a single encounter.

Same. The feat says you get to use a power you normally can't. That power happens to be an encounter power, but in the case of the feat, it is now only usable once per day. However you still get to use that power as it is defined, once per day. That power lets you activate it's benefits twice per encounter, more at level 16.

Anyway, this is what makes sense to me.

 

[Otterscrubber]

No. The feat doesn't say "You can use Healing/Inspiring Word as a Daily Power." it says "You can use Healing/Inspiring Word once per day."

Well if they wrote it this way (The first example above) it would replace your actual daily power I think.

 

[FadedC]

Well if they wrote it this way (The first example above) it would replace your actual daily power I think.

You can have quite a few powers that are usable once a day. It's only the powers that say things like cleric daily 5 that replace each other.

 

[hong]

And, we have a winner. Too many people are focused on what they want instead of what's actually written there in black and white.

And so they should, for a game that is to be played as opposed to a set of rules to be interpreted in the abstract.

 

[fba827]

I'll throw my support behind once per day too. I never even considered the other until I saw this thread.
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Same -- to me you use the ability once per day (period).

I hadn't even thought of the other possibility until seeing this thread. And, even then, I don't agree with it as twice per encounter and will continue to interpret it the way I was originally reading it.

Will I be happily surprised if I end up being wrong? Sure. But I think it is clean and clear the way I have been interpreting it.

 

[rhm001]

I asked this question in a thread a few weeks back, and, although he's not a WotC official, Mouseferatu advocated the "once per day, period" reading, for what that's worth. I know he's been around the game longer than most of us, (or at least longer than me) and has had to worry about the rules for various contract work.

All that said, I still like the "2/encounter, 1/day" reading. We'll have to see what CustServ or the errata has to say...