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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scribble" data-source="post: 4238698" data-attributes="member: 23977">On the point of GURPS but not GURPS...Remember the WOTC mathematician's gleemax post? He talks about the failures that yu find in point buy? (Where even though you have a bazillion options available there really ends up only being one or two "good" builds... everything else is sub optimal.)I think 4e took the best of both worlds. The good parts of point buy, mixed weith the good parts of class system. 3e started to do this, but didn't find the right balance.Point buy allows an amazing amount of options and characters, yet has the problem of really there are only a few builds that are "good." people end up playing the same role.Classes give each character a defined role, but end up being too restrictive.You want characters that are customizable, but if you go too far, you end up just giving people a bunch of different options that are a filter for making one character. So the best bet? Mix the two options. Give them a defined role, but with the ability to wiggle that role a bit.In 3e they introduced character customization through feats. People liked this. You could still play a "class" but at the same time customize it to make it different. Feats "failed" in a couple of ways, however.1. The prerequisite/chain thing. Essentially once you took a feat you were locked into that progression. (unless you didn't mind a suboptimal character.) So really it wasn't so much a a customized character, as it was a class with several different "sub" classes based on feats. 2. They were confused about what they were. Should I be a power for a certain class or should I be something everyone can take. I know, I'll be open to everyone, but really be only useful to a certain class.  I like the 4e solution and think it works well. Powers seem to be doing what feats wanted to; make each class customizable, yet still keep them within the "feel" of the class role. A fighter still fights, but in a way the player envisions.Powers aren't locked into a chain, so theoretically you could bounce around and make some crazy combos without "ruining" the class.  Powers make no claim that they are open to everyone. A fighter takes fighter powers, a ranger takes ranger powers. Again allowing for customization, but still defining a class.My fear wuith the pwoers, is that they might start to subconciously/unconciously start designing powers that "stack."</blockquote>

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