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<blockquote data-quote="Conaill" data-source="post: 1633439" data-attributes="member: 1264">Hm. Now that part seems quite surprising to me.I agree with your synergy reasoning... a combat-type character with the same number of abilities as a 20th level fighter but built with your system would likely be more powerful than a Ftr20, so you should probably charge him more XP for allowing him to pick and choose his synergies.&nbsp; (Essentially the same reason why I think 25 point-buy is fairly well balanced with 4d6 rolled stats... the additional flexibility gives you lots of extra power. But that's a discussion for another time...)But I hadn't expected that quadratic scaling would actually give a better fit with the existing classes, especially at high levels. Don't you get in trouble with classes that focus heavily on one&nbsp; aspect, like a Ftr 20 with all the feats he gets, or a Wiz 20 or Clr 20 with all those spells at his disposal? At least for those subset of classes, you should get a better fit with a linear scale. I guess the better fit is because of the &quot;mixed&quot; classes, like the ranger, bard, etc. which don't specialize in just one of these quadratically scaled abilities?[ObDisclaimer: no, I'm not picking on Sigil. Just curious. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Conaill, post: 1633439, member: 1264"] Hm. Now [i]that[/i] part seems quite surprising to me. I agree with your synergy reasoning... a combat-type character with the same number of abilities as a 20th level fighter but built with your system would likely be more powerful than a Ftr20, so you should probably charge him more XP for allowing him to pick and choose his synergies. (Essentially the same reason why I think 25 point-buy is fairly well balanced with 4d6 rolled stats... the additional flexibility gives you lots of extra power. But that's a discussion for another time...) But I hadn't expected that quadratic scaling would actually give a better fit with the existing classes, especially at high levels. Don't you get in trouble with classes that focus heavily on one aspect, like a Ftr 20 with all the feats he gets, or a Wiz 20 or Clr 20 with all those spells at his disposal? At least for those subset of classes, you should get a better fit with a linear scale. I guess the better fit is because of the "mixed" classes, like the ranger, bard, etc. which don't specialize in just one of these quadratically scaled abilities? [ObDisclaimer: no, I'm not picking on Sigil. Just curious. ;)] [/QUOTE]

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