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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dorloran" data-source="post: 2997235" data-attributes="member: 15748">I think the trees might be in the way of the forest.What I'm trying to say (poorly, I guess) is not about BAB or HP or skill points in particular.  What I'm trying to point out is the numbers race, the "forest" part of my posts that everyone seems to have ignored in order to point out the "trees" of whether BAB and HP scale evenly.The thread is supposed to address, I thought, the sweet spot and how to preserve it.  I'm just trying to suggest that if we were perhaps to acknowledge that as characters get better, the world gets tougher, there might be a way to scale back the advancement of both.  As Wulf has pointed out, it doesn't make sense that the game mechanics world gets tougher because the PCs get better.  To preserve the sweet spot and acknowledge that the world is the world, one place to start might be recognizing, then, that the world is static.  If, then, PCs were to remain relatively static--in the sense that as they advance, their ability to have profound influences on their world and the way they function in it and that they would remain challenged by it--then maybe we'd have some insight into how to prolong the desired sweet spot.Thanks for the replies, and Cheers.</blockquote>