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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6247479" data-attributes="member: 22424">I think there are a couple of things going on:- D&D (and Pathfinder) is much, much more widely-played by gamers. And of those other games that are quite widely played, quite often the very appeal is that they're not so mechanically-focussed. What this means is that mechanical issues with D&D are far more likely to be found, and far more likely to be commented on, than equivalent issues in other systems.(But, if you play some other system long enough, and you care about such things, chances are you'll find some issues there that may really bug you.)- Most other games don't have the "Quadratic Wizard" issue to the same extent, either because all the characters have access to the same powers (Mage, Mutants & Masterminds), or because magic is severely curtailed in the game. So while they may have issues, they probably don't have that issue.(And, unfortunately, the "Quadratic Wizard" is a design fault in D&D that goes right back to the earliest editions. Over time, the problem has been exacerbated by Wizards gaining ever more power or loosing restrictions on his power with each edition (up to 3.5e), but the root cause was always there. 3e could potentially have introduced Quadratic Fighters to match, but the higher-level feats were nowhere near powerful enough for that. And removing the Quadratic Wizard is probably not an option, since they're pretty much a sacred cow by now.)</blockquote>

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