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<blockquote data-quote="Dark080matter" data-source="post: 4151596" data-attributes="member: 61269">For the question about Defenses, why is that necessarily so?&nbsp; Every other class receives a total of base +2 to their Defenses (either two +1s or a single +2).&nbsp; The exception is the Ranger who has been reverse-engineered to have an extra point to Will, which IMO is probably more an Eladrin racial bonus than anything.&nbsp; Since we haven't seen either Halfling or Eladrin racial write-ups (or know what Small size modifier means in 4e for that matter)&nbsp; I don't think we have any real info on this aside from the reverse-engineers who have contributed PHB Lite, and so I'm merely suggesting that it may be racial or some kind of size modifier instead.&nbsp; I just think that makes much more sense for a system that is showing every sign of having (nearly) unified class progressions/abilities.The trend of &quot;balancing&quot; classes by use of Better or Worse save/BAB/other arbitrary mathematical differences is, it seems to me, going away in 4e.I've &quot;fixed&quot; the Movement speed at 5 though, that seems like a pretty sure bet overall.Thanks for all the replies so far! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dark080matter, post: 4151596, member: 61269"] For the question about Defenses, why is that necessarily so? Every other class receives a total of base +2 to their Defenses (either two +1s or a single +2). The exception is the Ranger who has been reverse-engineered to have an extra point to Will, which IMO is probably more an Eladrin racial bonus than anything. Since we haven't seen either Halfling or Eladrin racial write-ups (or know what Small size modifier means in 4e for that matter) I don't think we have any real info on this aside from the reverse-engineers who have contributed PHB Lite, and so I'm merely suggesting that it may be racial or some kind of size modifier instead. I just think that makes much more sense for a system that is showing every sign of having (nearly) unified class progressions/abilities. The trend of "balancing" classes by use of Better or Worse save/BAB/other arbitrary mathematical differences is, it seems to me, going away in 4e. I've "fixed" the Movement speed at 5 though, that seems like a pretty sure bet overall. Thanks for all the replies so far! :D [/QUOTE]

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