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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4542048" data-attributes="member: 710">I think they intentionally did not use a &quot;power point&quot; system or anything similar to avoid the typical problems involved them. Balancing often turns out to be impossible, and they typically involve a lot of book-keeping. Of course, depending on the composition of 5E design team, we could get back to such an approach.But I could also see that they will just rebuild the power system a little bit.For example, one relative &quot;simple&quot; change might be to allow people to pick up encounter, dailies and utilities in any order they like - but in the end, they still can't get more then the number they have. Might offer some people an option they like. But I think they didn't go there in 4E because it can lead to greater disparity in character strength. 4E is not just streamlined, it also wants to eliminate any type of system mastery requirements of you - and knowing when to pick encounters or dailies is certainly a system mastery requirement - you have to understand how dailies and encounters interact in the long run. While comparing encounter powers is typically a lot easier, and I don't think you can make any really bad decisions here. But you can make a choice of flavor, or a choice of party synergy (which differs from system mastery because party compositions can differ a lot...)I could see them creating a new &quot;line&quot; of powers - Defenses. Many Utility powers are already defenses in everything but name. But the idea of being able to use a &quot;Defense&quot; action to change or change the effects of an attack could be possible. Utilities would then concentrate on powers focusing on non-directly combat relevant powers. (Is a +10 power bonus to Jump power useful in combat? Yes. But it's also good otuside. While a +4 bonus to AC and Reflex Defense is only useful in combat.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 4542048, member: 710"] I think they intentionally did not use a "power point" system or anything similar to avoid the typical problems involved them. Balancing often turns out to be impossible, and they typically involve a lot of book-keeping. Of course, depending on the composition of 5E design team, we could get back to such an approach. But I could also see that they will just rebuild the power system a little bit. For example, one relative "simple" change might be to allow people to pick up encounter, dailies and utilities in any order they like - but in the end, they still can't get more then the number they have. Might offer some people an option they like. But I think they didn't go there in 4E because it can lead to greater disparity in character strength. 4E is not just streamlined, it also wants to eliminate any type of system mastery requirements of you - and knowing when to pick encounters or dailies is certainly a system mastery requirement - you have to understand how dailies and encounters interact in the long run. While comparing encounter powers is typically a lot easier, and I don't think you can make any really bad decisions here. But you can make a choice of flavor, or a choice of party synergy (which differs from system mastery because party compositions can differ a lot...) I could see them creating a new "line" of powers - Defenses. Many Utility powers are already defenses in everything but name. But the idea of being able to use a "Defense" action to change or change the effects of an attack could be possible. Utilities would then concentrate on powers focusing on non-directly combat relevant powers. (Is a +10 power bonus to Jump power useful in combat? Yes. But it's also good otuside. While a +4 bonus to AC and Reflex Defense is only useful in combat.) [/QUOTE]

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