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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5043111" data-attributes="member: 177">In my experience, this really isn't an issue of levels.&nbsp; A number of superhero systems I know, for example, are not level-based, but are able to model characters of vastly different power levels.&nbsp; White Wolf games (my greatest experience is with oWoD) are point-based, and also have vast power level differences between characters early in their careers and later on. Levels are a very useful tool for constructing characters over a wide power range.&nbsp; Point-buy systems can break if characters are free to really concentrate their advancement in a single area, where levels force some spread of the effects of advancement.Correlation does not imply causation - levels don't cause there to be major differences in power.&nbsp; It seems to me they are instead a result of wanting to have such a breadth of powers in the game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 5043111, member: 177"] In my experience, this really isn't an issue of levels. A number of superhero systems I know, for example, are not level-based, but are able to model characters of vastly different power levels. White Wolf games (my greatest experience is with oWoD) are point-based, and also have vast power level differences between characters early in their careers and later on. Levels are a very useful tool for constructing characters over a wide power range. Point-buy systems can break if characters are free to really concentrate their advancement in a single area, where levels force some spread of the effects of advancement. Correlation does not imply causation - levels don't [I]cause[/I] there to be major differences in power. It seems to me they are instead [I]a result of[/I] wanting to have such a breadth of powers in the game. [/QUOTE]

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