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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Estlor" data-source="post: 5872453" data-attributes="member: 7261">Which opens an area of confusion because we already have "Ability Scores."  Which (naturally) would have no relation to these other abilities.For the past two editions, D&D has desperately been trying to get away from the idea of using all sorts of verbiage and resolutions that all do the same thing.  It causes a lot of unnecessary confusion.  Look at Psionics in 3e for a concrete example of that.  They had to waste book space explaining to us that Magic = Psionics in terms of interaction with each other.  4e didn't need to do that because everything was a "Power" which naturally implied equality.To the person who suggested having a list of martial exploits all martial classes could choose freely from - I agree 100%.  One of the biggest gripes I have with 4e is how they have hundreds of powers, dozens of which are mechanically identical and aren't given enough fluff to feel differently.  Much better to build the role-oriented nature of the PC into the class and have a shared power list with class-specific kickers.F'rinstance, why not have a fireball that looks like this:Fireball (Arcane Attack 5)Daily * Arcane, Fire, ImplementStandard ActionArea burst 3 within 20Target: Each creature in burstAttack: Primary ability score vs ReflexHit: 3d6 + Primary ability modifier damage  Bard: Target changes to each enemy in burst.  Sorcerer: Targets hit also take ongoing 5 fire damage (save ends).  Wizard: Targets hit are also dazed until the end of their next turn.Miss: Half damage.</blockquote>

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