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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 3758815" data-attributes="member: 48965">This all depends on how you look at the game of chess and an encounter.  In an actual game you are steadily dealing with depleting resources over extended time(IMHO this is way different from the avg fight that lasts 3-5 rnds, though I might be mistaken).  It all depends on how you view the game, but unless you gain a piece by moving a pawn to the last square, or are playing against someone way below your skill level, you will never have the resources you had in the opening move.  IMHO each move is an "encounter" as it sets up a different dynamic that isn't the same as before that move. The game can still be won by a clever, or more skilled opponent even with less resources, and I enjoy this aspect of chess as well.  You look at the entire game as one encounter, I look at the entire game as the same as an entire game session of D&D.  My analogy of chess and per-encounter abilities is more similar to every time you take a piece...you get most of yours back, YMMV.I'm not saying tactics won't exsist...but I can easily see players falling into a sort of routine with their per-encounter & at-will abilities, while saving the per-day for the big or last encounter that night.  All the time? No, but I could see it happening alot, even with varied scenery etc.  I find it hard to believe that after a few sessions PC's won't find optimized combo's either within their own abilities or working in tangent and while they may not be practical in every situation, winning a combat in D&D boils down to two main factors; deal more propotional damage to opponents and take less proportional damage from opponents.  The designer's could totally surprise me and make every ability either so original it can be used in only a few singular situations(thus promoting outside the box thinking) or so applicable all can be used in any situation(they're really all equal so it's now a style thing, which doesn't really promote tactics).  But my first instinct is there will be abilities that are just better than others...only time will tell.   IMHO the per-day depletion forces you to consider more variables when taking an action and I like that, it's long-term strategy and thought.  I mean in the end it really is a style thing.</blockquote>

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