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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Emirikol" data-source="post: 3186105" data-attributes="member: 10638">POWER ESCALATION RUINS THE D&D GAME AND MAKES D&D HYBORIA DIFFICULT IF NOT DEALT WITHGriffith:I've been of the same thinking since 3.0 came out.  I've found that Power Escalation is the #1 reason why 3.0 combats get bogged down.  Power escalation is when the core 3.0 system becomes broken by a COMBINATION of:  constant access to buff's, high AC's, high HP's, high ability scores, ability to supercede nature at every turn, excessive magic items...which results in DM's moving towards low level EPIC-DIFFICULTY games...which causes players to focus on power escalation even more in response.As yourself this question:  if your typical D&D group changed to the situation below, what would happen to player thinking?  Would your players walk away because everyday wasn't christmas like in the typical D&D game?*  face human opponents 95% of the time that have discernable cultures (stygian, shem)*  face one wizard every game who was more ego than power (laugh)*  face one 'monster' every game that was RUN OR DIE*  only found charged magical items (including swords for the sake of argument) *  had to save their buff spells for emergencies *  have more FEATS but fewer hit points in advancing levels (always leaving you eligible to be killed by someone)*  got x.p. for the role-playing of spending loot equal to that of killing stuff*  no resurrection/raise dead/cure disease/fly/teleport/create food& water/endure elements*  the spellcasters in your party were NEVER really that powerful and clerics didn't exist*  power over people was more 'powerful' than the riddle of the steel*  your party was never balanced*  you'll use a LOT of Action Points to stabilize*  you can make cool actions with skill checks that will give you a simple +2 or better bonus (for example, swing from a chandalier onto a group of enemies..take a -4 climb per +1 to hit DC 10)..this the ONLY Iron Heroes rule I use. That's pretty much what it's like.  The DM has most of the burden of making sure that it's not too crazy.Some guys get overwhelmed thinking they're going to have to do a bunch of human stat blocks.  I don't bother.  I just use the stats for Orcs, Gnolls, Lizard men, Kobolds or whatever I want and then just say "Shemite" or "Styigan" or "Eiglophian Witiko."  If you play the CONAN game they've got stat blocks for that stuff.  I still prefer the SRD(D&D). jhP.S. IRON HEROES or BOOK OF 9 SWORDS will NOT speed up your game although they are very cool and relevant.  The combat effects take just as long as a high-magic game (except it's technically low magic).</blockquote>

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