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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 5862029" data-attributes="member: 78958">I'm not feeling it. Why would a Scholar level faster than anybody else? After all, scholars have this slow-and-methodical stereotype going, right? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />More to the point: if it were indeed desirable that some classes are penalized, while others advance in levels faster... what are the mechanical reasons for said playing of favorites?Are scholars too weak compared to Barbarians? Are Barbarians too front-loaded compared to scholars? Do scholars regularly burn XP, where Barbarians don't? Is Wisdom everybody's favored dumpstat (despite perception checks and will saves being keyed off Wis) - AND somebody is taking issue with that?When creating a houserule, always ask yourself: is there anything to be found in such a houserule that either a) provides better options, game balance, or general fun for everybody, or b) gets rid of unwanted effects of the current ruleset, or c) adresses a specific problem in your current gaming group, not necessarily found elsewhere? If neither of these are the case, this is just a rules change for the sake of... changing the rules, I guess.Introducing far-reaching balance changes for the heck of it is dangerous, and may result in the not so favored people feeling their toes stepped on.</blockquote>

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