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<blockquote data-quote="Pauln6" data-source="post: 8979858" data-attributes="member: 6777422">Actually no, I would like more codified combat abilities too.&nbsp; I am more rigid than I want to be and I struggle with the right balance to satisfy myself personally.&nbsp; I just don't think it's right to polarise the discussion.&nbsp; The problem I have is that some players are better at self-limiting than others.&nbsp; Is saying, no you can't decapitate a cloud giant on a natural 20, wrong?&nbsp; There have to be parameters and they are nebulous.&nbsp; But at the same time having too many codified abilities can significantly slow play.&nbsp; The balance is finding enough codified abilities to make it interesting but not so many as to make it a quagmire that discourages inventiveness.Level up uses twice your proficiency bonus as a base (so 4 uses per short rest for starters) with 3 abilities but ways to increase that number as you level.&nbsp; That's not much more than battlemasters so might not be enough for some people (albeit Level Up offers more interesting thematic class features too).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pauln6, post: 8979858, member: 6777422"] Actually no, I would like more codified combat abilities too. I am more rigid than I want to be and I struggle with the right balance to satisfy myself personally. I just don't think it's right to polarise the discussion. The problem I have is that some players are better at self-limiting than others. Is saying, no you can't decapitate a cloud giant on a natural 20, wrong? There have to be parameters and they are nebulous. But at the same time having too many codified abilities can significantly slow play. The balance is finding enough codified abilities to make it interesting but not so many as to make it a quagmire that discourages inventiveness. Level up uses twice your proficiency bonus as a base (so 4 uses per short rest for starters) with 3 abilities but ways to increase that number as you level. That's not much more than battlemasters so might not be enough for some people (albeit Level Up offers more interesting thematic class features too). [/QUOTE]

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