I guess I could have written my post in a manner that isn’t completely nonsensical… but hey, there *is* a question (and only one!) in there somewhere.
Talae - 23 July 2008 07:40 PM
The limitation of daily powers refers to you only having limited daily powers known. For instance, at first level you have 1 daily power from your class (typically).
Yeah, at *first* level. Then, from 5th level onwards, the parallel is never true, so no, I don’t think your interpretation really solves it. (The table on page 143 of the DMG helps.) No, to me they make it sound like there is a limitation to using, say, only ONE daily power at all per day at 5th level, even though you have two different powers to use. (Which is the way it works with magic items.) Only there is no such limit anywhere, which leaves me wondering whether there *should* be and they forgot to write it, or whether there *was* such a limit early in the development process and they got rid of it, but forgot to delete that reference.
Talae - 23 July 2008 07:40 PM
As for the items, at levels 1st-10th you can only use one item’s daily power in a day. After reaching a milestone, you may use a daily power of a different item. To use the same daily power twice, you must take an extended rest and therefore...you may never use a daily power from an item more than once in a day.
Yeah, but… let’s read again that magical paragraph just beside the girl’s sword in page 226.
Each time you reach a milestone (see page 259), you gain one additional use of a magic item daily power. This benefit can be used to activate any magic item daily power that you have not already used this day (even if you’ve already used a different daily power from that magic item).
Emphasis mine of course. The way I read it, with the simple limit based on level (before figuring milestones into it), which is what comes before the fateful paragraph above, you can simply use one daily power from each magic item at all in a single day. So, even if you have more than one daily use (from 11th level onwards), the uses have to come from different magic items. So far so good.
Then you get milestones, and, according to the paragraph above, not only that adds to your pool of times you can use abilities from (different) magic items, but, as I bolded above, the extra uses from milestones can even go to different powers from the SAME item. Which is also explicitly forbidden for the “base” uses per day, before milestones. (And things don’t generally get prohibited unless they’re actually possible.)
So, the problem is - that latter twist makes sense only for magic items that have more than one daily power in the same item. Which means that, theoretically, if there were no limitations, you WOULD be able to use a daily power from the same item twice… because it wouldn’t be the *same* power, but *two* different powers (just like characters 5th-8th level have two distinct daily powers and can use both in the same day).
Only the thing is, there is no magic item at all, in the PHB at least, that has more than one daily power. (The only items with more than one daily power I’ve seen are artifacts, but they’re exempt from such limits as per page 164, which renders the point moot.) So, I wonder - did they include that just in case future supplements may or may not have magic items with more than one daily power apiece, or were they just being silly?
