Reaper Steve
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Quickleaf... I think your' Test of Honor' power pretty well shows your assumptions are off. IMO, ToH as you've created it is way overpowered compared to other Level 1 powers we've seen.
That's one of the statement I am not so sure of. Was 4E really the first edition? I got the impression that a lot of math was already done in 3E. How wealth per level stacks up against the treasure tables, for example, is pretty astounding. Off course, it's possible that they created the treasure tables first and then calculated wealth by level, so it wasn't exactly a rigid mechanism...Jack Colby said:The designers of 4E flat-out stated that they worked out all the mathematics first, then wrote the game to fit. Furthermore, this is the first edition of the D&D game to have done it in that order.
Now, that doesn't prove they used a point-based system for powers, but I would assume that they are built on solid mathematical ground regardless, and a "close enough" point system could be devised, and refined with playtesting.
Mustrum_Ridcully said:I got the impression that a lot of math was already done in 3E.
Or put it other words: 3E also had a lot of maths - but they tried to fudge the maths to match sacred cows.Mourn said:A bunch of it was based on sacred cows, like Fireball dealing 1d6/level. They didn't retain that because it was mathematically sound, but because it was "how it was always done." The same philosophy was applied to Magic Missile as well. I think it's fair to say that 4e has focused much more on the internal math over mathematical sacred cows than 3e did.
Lord Tirian said:Or put it other words: 3E also had a lot of maths - but they tried to fudge the maths to match sacred cows.
In 4E, they turn the sacred cow to (messy) fudge to match the maths.