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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4447419" data-attributes="member: 40961">Its not power creep because its not in competition with regular play. Look, I don't know how clear I can make this. Suppose I wrote a campaign setting where everyone started at level 11.  That wouldn't be power creep, because it doesn't affect games in other settings where characters do not start at level 10. Suppose I wrote a campaign setting where everyone received an extra psychic power at level 1.  That would not be power creep, because it doesn't affect games in other settings where characters do not receive that psychic power. Suppose I wrote a campaign setting where everyone started with half regular hit points.  That wouldn't be power... uncreep (?) because it doesn't affect games not taking place in that campaign setting. Get the idea? If WOTC wrote an article that began, "ERRATA!  EVERYONE GETS A BACKGROUND BONUS FROM NOW ON FROM THE FOLLOWING LIST!" then THAT would be power creep. But that isn't what happened. And of course that's leaving behind the entire issue of power creep being bad because it renders old material obsolete and underpowered, whereas a "power creep" which applies equally to all characters in a particular game doesn't actually have that negative effect.</blockquote>