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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 5845014" data-attributes="member: 1879">The core game, the one without any optional modules, should be as low-powered as plausible while maintaining enough of a semblence of class balance to attract modern audiences.That last bit is the trick however. If you still have 9th level wizards flying and shooting cone-of-colds and fireballs then the 5e 9th level fighter is going to have to bring more to the table that the AD&D 9th level fighter did.Can this be done without breaking the barrier of mundanity? Probably. But not while adhereing to a strict sembleance to a historical Knight. Well, the the modern popular misconception of the knight anyway.You can do it with a more specific form of the 'Title level' benefits from AD&D. If at higher levels the fighter gets an entourage/keep/barony then he can fill in the power gap between himself and the wizard without quite breaking that "I don't do magic" wall.Instead he has a griffon mount, or a loyal alchemist who keeps him supplied with a small pool of potions, or a company of archers. Or all of the above at higher levels.And this may jar with the popular conception of the Knight as a lone crusader, but frankly that is pure myth anyway. A knight never traveled alone, being a knight took more labour than one man could do. A single knight, on his way to tourney would have actually been A knight, A squire, a couple of servants, a warhorse, two palfreys, mules or oxen pulling the cart. The cart would have contained at the very least an arming tent for storing the Knights armour, and where he would gear up for combat and tend to his mounts. It would also be packing supplies, maintanence gear for arms and armour, food for men and beasts. This is pretty much the minimum dead broke knights company. A knight doing a bit better would also have another tent for people to sleep in, probably a few hounds and a hawk for hunting, maybe a minstrel, certainly a 'camp follower' or two. Daily maintenence of a knights arms, tack, and gear was more that any single man could accomplish.Modules should then allow you to swap out the default benefits of high level fighterdom for alternate genres. Ditch the griffin and get wire-fu. Ditch the alchemist and get Bo9s style maneuvers. Etc.And if you don't want followers or powers and still want to be on par with someone who can make physics cry then you need to figure out exactly how you can justify being as powerful as you want while also demanding the right to gimp yourself without limit.</blockquote>

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