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<blockquote data-quote="Gorgoroth" data-source="post: 5642800" data-attributes="member: 6674889">One of the veteran posters herementioned an idea, quite convincingly, that having your attack bonus increase as you level could be done away with. But in that case, your stats become very important, indeed. I think it's probably best left to another edition, one that was more simulationist where experience grants you special attacks, combos, and so on, but you can still hit a dragon (though come nowhere near close to killing it before it mauls you) at level 1, or even be killed by an angry mob of level 0 villagers. DMs don't put you up against monsters way below your level....so why do you they still exist?Much better is to have a +1 to-hit per tier, and everything else comes down to your combos of which you can have many. I don't like dailies though, but would prefer something like stamina points or mana points where you can essentially do a few powerful combos a few times a day, at the expense of sustained impact.Someone told me Iron Heroes was the best thing to try. I DMed an Arcana Unearthed game once and I'm quite fond of Monte Cook's style (not to mention Mike Mearls...man, I can't help but feel like his skills are wasted on 4th ed, honestly).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gorgoroth, post: 5642800, member: 6674889"] [b]One of the veteran posters here[/b] mentioned an idea, quite convincingly, that having your attack bonus increase as you level could be done away with. But in that case, your stats become very important, indeed. I think it's probably best left to another edition, one that was more simulationist where experience grants you special attacks, combos, and so on, but you can still hit a dragon (though come nowhere near close to killing it before it mauls you) at level 1, or even be killed by an angry mob of level 0 villagers. DMs don't put you up against monsters way below your level....so why do you they still exist? Much better is to have a +1 to-hit per tier, and everything else comes down to your combos of which you can have many. I don't like dailies though, but would prefer something like stamina points or mana points where you can essentially do a few powerful combos a few times a day, at the expense of sustained impact. Someone told me Iron Heroes was the best thing to try. I DMed an Arcana Unearthed game once and I'm quite fond of Monte Cook's style (not to mention Mike Mearls...man, I can't help but feel like his skills are wasted on 4th ed, honestly). [/QUOTE]

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