After further consideration I’m tweaking my thoughts on Second Wind changes for the Offense option. As it stood a player could recover an expended Encounter power. I want to do something about Dailies missing though, not all Dailies are reliable or have a miss effect and even as the DM it sucks when a player misses on their Daily at least my guys because they haul them out when things are really desperate.
Essentially you can use your second wind to recover an Daily power that’s not-reliable and does not have any effects on a miss if you missed with it. So basically it adds Reliable to all daily powers that don’t have it but it costs you your second wind to do it. I also tweaked the verbiage to clarify any possible questions (aka exploits).
So I’m modifying my house rule as below -
Second Wind: Standard Action
Spend a healing surge and gain your choice of one of the following two sets of benefits -
- Healing/Defense – Regain hits points as normal for spending a healing surge and gain +2 to all defenses until the start of your next turn.
- Attack/Offense – Recover an expended Encounter power and gain +2 untyped bonus to this attack until the end of your next turn or until its used whichever comes sooner for this recovered Encounter attack only or allow you to re-roll your attack roll on a Daily power that missed.
Addendum – The Improved Second Wind feat provides the following adjustments -
- Healing/Defense – Gain an additional +5 health with excess health recovered being used as temporary hit points.
- Attack/Offense – Gain an additional untyped +1 for the recovered power.
