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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7030480" data-attributes="member: 29398">That almost sounds like you're running 2e's Birthright, or a near variant.  If you're not, give it a look - it has a lot of this stuff already baked in.=========================================Late-era 2e was a mess (which I did my best to ignore) which is why 3e came in as such a breath of fresh air for many people at the time.In many ways 5e seems to want to just give you the chassis and some bare-bones parts and then offer a boatload of options, where 3e and 4e wanted to give you the whole car fully loaded but with very few if any options beyond colour.  I too prefer the 5e design model.Balance in this analogy is merely a matter of attempting to smooth out the waves.  Do you smooth out the big ones and let the little ones go (macro-balance), do you smooth out the little ones (micro-balance) while either working on or ignoring the big ones, do you try to make the sea flat calm (perfect balance), or do you just ignore the lot and buy a sturdier boat?==================================Which to me is a variant of long-term balance - perhaps not an ideal one, but it is balanced: vancian casters are a short-term-pain-for-long-term-gain proposition.That said, high-level non-casters can be pretty powerful too in their own right...just not *as* powerful as the casters.  It's not like the non-casters never improve at all.Lan-"as a high-level 1e Fighter, a battle with a caster would still come down to who won initiative in the first round"-efan</blockquote>

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