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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sundragon2012" data-source="post: 2579253" data-attributes="member: 7624">Interesting Perspectives on the subject.My friend, who I was referring to managed to get a 2e wizard up to 27th level as he had the character for a good many years. He noted that all he gained from being 27th level in the game outside of a couple of perks from the book DM's Option High Level Campaign was the ability to cast a few more spells. Alot of his power came from power and influence within the game. He could destroy a lot of enemies, no doubt about that, but when it came down to it there was no particular power in him that wasn't directly tied to a rather static spell list.In 3.5e, and this is surely no complaint, there seems, due to feats and in the case of spellcasters, metamagic feats, that seem to imbue the characters themselves with certain intrinsic abilities that go above and beyond anything characters in 1e and 2e games ever got.If I took a 20th level fighter in 2e and faced him off against the same level fighter in 3.5e, the 3.5e fighter would make pate out of him, spread him on a sandwich and eat him with some cheese. I remember running high level battles where no matter what level a fighter was all that he was doing was swinging his sword and hoping that his THAC0 was good enough to hit the enemy, now with the feats involved, the higher hit point totals, etc. that fighter is both more powerful and more colorful than his predesessor.I know that everything is relative to the ruleset at the time and I know that D&D edition power levels between 3/3.5e and all other versions cannot be quantified because so much is different. I thought about this however and thought I would present the question to the board. Thanks for the responses.Chris</blockquote>

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