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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 5889397" data-attributes="member: 3400">I think that does a good job of explaining one aspect of the disconnect with martial dailies in 4e. I'd add that I think the issue could have been made much better, conceptually, if the daily exploits had all been built off of encounter power the PCs had already selected. If, for example, each encounter power had a &quot;daily&quot; level of achievement listed with it that could be obtained by spending a martial daily token (the number the PC gets is equal to the number of dailies he be able to expend at that level), then the system would have been a little easier to accept. The daily would more clearly fit in as an element of a chosen fighting style, just raised to be an exceptional success of that particular maneuver.I think there are several other ideas that could have been incorporated for martial dailies that would have been better than the AEDU structure without being more than a step or two away from it. I think another would be to give the martial characters daily tokens again, let them choose their daily powers, and then use them by expending the tokens but allowing them to choose to use said daily multiple times as long as they have tokens to power it. Then the mechanic becomes a lot closer to 3e's rage in concept - exhaustion becomes an easier to rationalize reason for the limited uses.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billd91, post: 5889397, member: 3400"] I think that does a good job of explaining one aspect of the disconnect with martial dailies in 4e. I'd add that I think the issue could have been made much better, conceptually, if the daily exploits had all been built off of encounter power the PCs had already selected. If, for example, each encounter power had a "daily" level of achievement listed with it that could be obtained by spending a martial daily token (the number the PC gets is equal to the number of dailies he be able to expend at that level), then the system would have been a little easier to accept. The daily would more clearly fit in as an element of a chosen fighting style, just raised to be an exceptional success of that particular maneuver. I think there are several other ideas that could have been incorporated for martial dailies that would have been better than the AEDU structure without being more than a step or two away from it. I think another would be to give the martial characters daily tokens again, let them choose their daily powers, and then use them by expending the tokens but allowing them to choose to use said daily multiple times as long as they have tokens to power it. Then the mechanic becomes a lot closer to 3e's rage in concept - exhaustion becomes an easier to rationalize reason for the limited uses. [/QUOTE]

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