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<blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 5786012" data-attributes="member: 3887">Let's think about this for a minute...How, exactly, do you make a 1st level rogue as interesting as a 20th level sorcerer?Well, the person playing the rogue can give him or her an entertaining personality! And the player can contribute clever ideas and actions not covered by the rules!But wait -- the person playing the sorcerer can do the exact same things! In addition to moving/flattering/temporally-suspending mountains.(I like to call this the &quot;There's Nothing Stopping the Guy Playing Superman From Playing Batman At The Same Time&quot; Principal of role-playing games)So we're back to square one. Two interesting, clever characters, one who, on a good day, hide sometimes and pick a pocket, and the other, who can redecorate the surrounding landscape on a whim. The rules can't really give a PC an interesting personality or clever idea. They can attempt to keep the number and scale of rules-defined options for interacting with the game environment somewhat on par between PCs, more-or-less.And they should do that, because, after all, D&amp;D is still a game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mallus, post: 5786012, member: 3887"] Let's think about this for a minute... How, exactly, do you make a 1st level rogue as interesting as a 20th level sorcerer? Well, the person playing the rogue can give him or her an entertaining personality! And the player can contribute clever ideas and actions not covered by the rules! But wait -- the person playing the sorcerer can do the exact same things! In addition to moving/flattering/temporally-suspending mountains. (I like to call this the "There's Nothing Stopping the Guy Playing Superman From Playing Batman At The Same Time" Principal of role-playing games) So we're back to square one. Two interesting, clever characters, one who, on a good day, hide sometimes and pick a pocket, and the other, who can redecorate the surrounding landscape on a whim. The rules can't really give a PC an interesting personality or clever idea. They [i]can[/i] attempt to keep the number and scale of rules-defined options for interacting with the game environment [i]somewhat[/i] on par between PCs, more-or-less. And they should do that, because, after all, D&D is still a game. [/QUOTE]

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