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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Croesus" data-source="post: 3360556" data-attributes="member: 35019">I would suggest because there's a big difference between measuring the power of a challenge and the relative power/utility of a character. CR is just a guesstimate anyway, as circusmstances can matter tremendously - giants are most dangerous in confined spaces, where a party has to engage them in melee, dragons are most dangerous in open spaces where they can hit and run. Switch the locations, and each becomes much less of a threat - but technically, the CR doesn't change.Now try balancing various abilities with the value of an entire character level. We already know that losing an entire level of spellcasting ability hurts a lot more than losing a level of rogue or fighter. But as has been pointed out earlier in the thread, some abilities scale well, and others don't. How do you design a sliding scale for those situations if you're minimum adjustment is an entire character level?Just my opinion, but the problem is using levels as a balancing mechanism - levels are too large an adjustment. We need something much smaller to properly balance such things, and even then we'll be guesstimating.</blockquote>