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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5785448" data-attributes="member: 42582">I'm not a big fan of the drawbacks approach - Rolemaster uses it a lot, so I've seen it an action over many years of GMing that system - because (i) it just encourages the players to spend time and effort on building in failsafes (eg feather fall effects to protect against teleporting too high) which is (from my point of view) a waste of play time, and (ii) it pushes the game in the direction of Russian roulette a bit too much for my liking. But I think I'm probably in a minority on this one - a lot of people seem to like risk-based balance.The higher level thing is more interesting. I kind of like how 4e handles this, but I think that it is another thing the rulebooks could do a better job of explaining. At least as I interpret it, teleport in 4e comes to play at about the level when travel between locations (or, at least, known locations) is no longer intended to be a source of adventure - adventure for paragon and epic PCs is going to be found on other planes, or in the Underdark, or in the wild places of the mortal realm, where there are no teleport circles to travel to (at least, not until the PCs discover them, at which point they become short cuts to the adventure location). I think the ritual to teleport to a non-circle is 28th level - so AD&amp;D-style teleport is never going to be a big part of the game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 5785448, member: 42582"] I'm not a big fan of the drawbacks approach - Rolemaster uses it a lot, so I've seen it an action over many years of GMing that system - because (i) it just encourages the players to spend time and effort on building in failsafes (eg feather fall effects to protect against teleporting too high) which is (from my point of view) a waste of play time, and (ii) it pushes the game in the direction of Russian roulette a bit too much for my liking. But I think I'm probably in a minority on this one - a lot of people seem to like risk-based balance. The higher level thing is more interesting. I kind of like how 4e handles this, but I think that it is another thing the rulebooks could do a better job of explaining. At least as I interpret it, teleport in 4e comes to play at about the level when travel between locations (or, at least, known locations) is no longer intended to be a source of adventure - adventure for paragon and epic PCs is going to be found on other planes, or in the Underdark, or in the wild places of the mortal realm, where there are no teleport circles to travel to (at least, not until the PCs discover them, at which point they become short cuts to the adventure location). I think the ritual to teleport to a non-circle is 28th level - so AD&D-style teleport is never going to be a big part of the game. [/QUOTE]

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