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<blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 8573090" data-attributes="member: 6855114">Simple, before 5ed. If a game master wanted to adjust the power level of a character, he would &quot;arrange&quot; for the character to find THE item that the player needed to have a power spike for his character. Be it a better sword, armor, wand or whatever. From a +1 sword to a +2 sword wasn't such a big deal back then. It was easy to &quot;control&quot; the problems associated with it. Most of the power of a character came from the magic items it had. Two notable exceptions were the paladin and the monk. These classes were gated with high requirement.Now, most of a character's power comes from... its class and subclasses features. So if a player makes a few mistakes, since magic items have been upgraded so much, it is even harder for a game master to &quot;adjust&quot; the power level other than either sending a magic items (which now have a bigger impact, thanks to BA) or simply reducing the ECL... which might bring things to a cakewalk if the DM is not careful.Even a single magical sword can become troublesome when the scenario depends on the players having difficulties in hurting the monsters. Many classes and subclasses powers are bypassing immunities altogether. Never was the number of magic using character so numerous.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Helldritch, post: 8573090, member: 6855114"] Simple, before 5ed. If a game master wanted to adjust the power level of a character, he would "arrange" for the character to find THE item that the player needed to have a power spike for his character. Be it a better sword, armor, wand or whatever. From a +1 sword to a +2 sword wasn't such a big deal back then. It was easy to "control" the problems associated with it. Most of the power of a character came from the magic items it had. Two notable exceptions were the paladin and the monk. These classes were gated with high requirement. Now, most of a character's power comes from... its class and subclasses features. So if a player makes a few mistakes, since magic items have been upgraded so much, it is even harder for a game master to "adjust" the power level other than either sending a magic items (which now have a bigger impact, thanks to BA) or simply reducing the ECL... which might bring things to a cakewalk if the DM is not careful. Even a single magical sword can become troublesome when the scenario depends on the players having difficulties in hurting the monsters. Many classes and subclasses powers are bypassing immunities altogether. Never was the number of magic using character so numerous. [/QUOTE]

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