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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psikus" data-source="post: 5645171" data-attributes="member: 66049">That looks like a hard thing to implement. From what I see, you'd like to do away with anything that improves character stats, and instead focus on adding options when a character gains a level. The problem is, most options in the game are used to increase character stats!Consider feats. There are a few very cool feats that grant you powers, but for the most part, the feats people take bring an increase to damage, attack, defenses, HP, or even skills. So you're still scaling stats, though at a much slower pace. What is worse, many feats (usually of a taxy nature) come with inherent scaling - stuff like expertise, toughness, or superior defenses. You'll want to ban those, or at least errata them heavily. But even then, there's the deeper problem: does it make sense to keep feats, if most of the time they are used to increase stats, which is what you are actively trying to avoid?And then there are powers. For the most part, more powers and higher level ones translate into a damage increase, though there are other implications. Having increasing damage values seems to be impossible to avoid, given your requirements. Is it possible to have just that? At the very  least, I'd have monster HP increase at a similar rate as PC damage. In fact, the easiest thing would be to keep all damage scaling intact (weapon enhancement bonuses, item bonuses, and ability increases -affecting damage but NOT defenses or attack!-, or something equivalent) so that the current monster HP math can be reused (rather than inventing a new one).Unfortunately, I don't think you can do the same for monsters - PCs already get more and better options as they level up, but monsters are pretty much defined by their stats and a couple of powers. You would be taking away scaling, without giving them much in return. You could have monsters with constant stats and slightly stronger effects (paragon and epic monsters tend to be larger, fly more often, and have more stuns and dominates), but other than that there wouldn't be much difference between a kobold or a giant - except HP, if you're trying to keep up with PC damage.A compromise solution would be to have both monsters and PCs to scale in HP and damage. You'd also want to scale XP costs to a much more linear progression, since the gap between lower level monsters and higher level ones would be much more narrow. Minions would be particularly hard to balance, since their damage varies very slowly.Either that, or just have one monster level, and have PCs face increasing numbers of equivalent monsters as they gain feats and powers.</blockquote>

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