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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Khaim" data-source="post: 4014400" data-attributes="member: 58754">Sorry, "silly" might be the wrong word. But I think that the designers, when making the system, expect it to be used as a whole, not as pieces a la carte.As far as feats, I think you actually meant powers. It looks like 4e feats will be like Alertness, not Power Attack. In any case, the "superpowers" thing was put in so non-casters would actually get things at high level. I'm not sure if you've ever played high-level 3e. If not, here's an anecdote:======There's an RPG weekend thing that happens on campus ever term or so. Last year, one of my friends decided to run a 20th level arena match. Being rather anti-munchkin, he decided not to play a spellcaster and still try to beat me. Some other people were there, but not terribly important, and the real battle was me, a Wizard/Loremaster/Archmage, vs him, some kind of ranger/archer. With a cohort, who was also some kind of archer. I lost initiative.He conceded in 2 rounds: I was back at full health, invisible, the cohort was dead, and he had 8 negative levels. Plus I still had Shapechange up, which meant everything else was overkill.======I'm not bragging here. That was a bare-bones, core-only build, and anyone could do it. Spellcasters in 3e are broken, and the only thing that keeps them in check at low levels is their d4 hit dice. Giving other classes abilities that are sort of like spells is really, really, really needed, and I for one applaud their new place in 4e.I guess what I'm trying to say is, the new special moves are sorely needed and fix a very broken part of D&D. I'm not sure why you object to them so much. Is it the "realism" thing? It does seem crazy that a 25th-level rogue can jump 50 feet straight up and stab a dragon in the eye (or whatever), until you remember two things. One, he's 25th level, roughly the same power level as Hercules: superhuman feats are not out of his reach. And two, the guy next to him can cast a spell that turns the dragon inside out, and can do so a couple of times a day. Is that somehow realistic?Finally, magic items. Lucky for you, all classes now have roughly the same reliance on magic items, so you give the no-magic bonuses to everyone. Or no one, and just make the monsters a bit weaker; it comes out the same.</blockquote>

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