Special Abilities

I am using Action Points (AP) to control the flow of the game. For example a Fighter has 6 APs per turn. He can therefore fight 2 melee combats (3 points each) or just one combat and then uses a health potion (for 1 AP). He would then be left of 2 APs (and he can for example de-equip/equip an item for 2 APs).

There was a suggestion saying I should use Dice (like 4 dice) and that could determine which Special Ability is used. As I said in my initial post, I want the PLAYER to decide which skill he uses and when (not determine by random rolling of dice).

The problem is figuring out when the skill should be *renewed*.

Fnck... It does not work with another Special Skill which is *Charge!*: melee attack only cost 2 APs.

So in theory a Fighter with 6 APs, should be able to attack 3 times this turn...

If I make it cost 4 APs, then there are only 2 APs left on this turn... So 1 attack (instead of 3).

However I could make the Ability last for 2 turns. Which would mean on his NEXT turn, he would have 3 attacks. So in 2 turns, 4 attacks. Which is exactly what he has INITIALLY: 2 melee attacks per turn...

Damn I thought I had it figured out... Need another solution...

I was going to use this sort of mechanism - but for some reason I stopped because I thought players could use multiple skills. I know it is possible to track all of them your way - just you run out of PLAY SPACE lol. So I am thinking is it so bad to restrict it to ONE Special Ability at a time??? Then you need to wait for the depletion time...

I kinda like it! It paces the game with the wait for depletion - and this way *powerful* skills would get used less often because it prevents a player from playing another skill... Like if you are in the heat of a battle, it would make sense to use Charge! and it costs 3 turns. So for 1 turn you get 3 melee attacks. And something like Bloodlust would cost 2 turns, since it doubles your next successful attack.