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Which I believe I said in the large paragraph shortly before the one you quoted?

I do have to admit, the absolute need for random stats instead of simply having everyone having a firm mechanical baseline is actually fascinating to me. I prefer points-based systems to level-based systems, in no small part BECAUSE everyone has the same foundation; it's what they do with it...

And that's fine! I've done it both ways, and when a player of course it's usually in a campaign where XP is a reward. Except for those players who found they really liked the levels-are-not-a-reward system. When levels are strictly a metric for the power level of the party (and note: explicitly...

Well, I have done it. Many, many times in fact; I've been playing for over 35 years now, and played an awful lot of styles of play, and systems, at this point. While I do know how to work with characters of disparate levels, even severely disparate levels, sure. I would love to hear your...

I guess it's a good thing that some (perhaps many?) of us who use milestone leveling are specifically removing that being either a positive or negative reinforcement from the picture entirely, hmm? As in, it is in no way a reinforcing agent whatsoever? Much like setting a superhero campaign at...

Nope, never said it was bad. Just very difficult on many levels to pull of with even a modicum of success. It is much more logistically difficult to juggle and have an overall positive outcome for everyone involved. And once even a small core group of the PCs survives to a decent level, they...

In which case you are either, a) periodically asking the group to stop playing the characters and storyline they've been working on and possibly rolling up new characters of their own just to play with this new person (or new character replacing a deceased one), or b) staging additional sessions...

It's not merely that numbers are higher, it's that they are flat out doing things considerably more potent in effect. Spells have the tiers they have for a reason, and classes has access to them at different levels for a reason; as a benchmark of how much one knows, how much one can influence...

No, probably not. But you are removing a huge swathe of potential characters that make sense to be joining your party from a narrative perspective. Combat abilities or no. Even with bounded accuracy, some numbers just get out of hand such that the established PCs will so outclass the "newbies"...

Actually, yes. I most assuredly can frame it such that levels are not, in fact, rewards. When you go the route of ignoring XP rewards, and go for alternative rewards, levels quite explicitly become nothing more or less than a metric of the relative power level of the PCs compared to the rest of...

Well, in my opinion not healing characters that are doing things that could royally screw with the party is trying to nudge them to play nice. I don't think that's actively undermining them, but it is letting them know that they need to be team players or, well...they won't be treated like team...

See, the thing is I don't really see actually following what your character's deity would be likely to wish (few gods would look kindly upon the desecration of corpses put to rest with proper burial rites), as escalating the situation. Certainly not if other characters are using their alignment...

Perhaps it might not have been, and here's a really good reason you can present why: It is against my faith to touch that which has been desecrated. Unfortunately, you recently desecrated a corpse, against my protestations. Sadly, my Lord's healing prayer requires me to lay hands upon you. So...

I think TK would have spammable ability to maneuver enemies around the battlefield, and possibly to grapple them at range (breaking that grapple contested with your Psionic Discipline attack roll, instead of your Strength (Athletics) check), making them rather unique in their abilities. We...

Lol, that's true. Very true. Again, it conjures amusing images. Of a druid speaking to a bat, who is trying to describe how they perceive the world, with the same difficulty describing color to someone who only sees in black and white has. There's also the whole shapeshifting issue. A druid...

This is a good point. But, this is also a world where there are intelligent races with much better hearing than a human (elves come to mind), and thus this knowledge might have been discovered much, much sooner. I am picturing elves and humans in early adventures together, and the elves shaking...

Oh, sure. That's why I'd probably have them just book it the hell out of there. A zone of silence is a place they do not want to be, and it'd also be a weird dead zone to them from outside. Any inside when it hits will be somewhat disoriented and use their eyes to get away. But any bats on the...

This is precisely what I do. Leveling is not where players get their rewards for good play. I do not hand out XP at all; I decide when the whole party levels up, period. New players, or new characters by existing players, come in at the same level as everyone else, with an appropriate level of...

Bats actually have decent eyesight, and can fly just fine without sound provided there is enough light to see (and the dimmer the light, the better their vision). That being said, studies actually do show that they crash more often when relying strictly on eyesight. This doesn't mean they...

My guess? That TK will be the third Order, the one not yet being playtested. Focusing on moving opponents around with pushes and pulls, with a lot of force damage, and so on. Since they seem to have in part folded clairsentience in with telepathy in the Order of the Awakened. The remainder of...