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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8220982" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>I'm not sure why the level range needs to be coupled to that kind of focus. Of course we know that, to a degree, DMG1 is oriented towards Heroic, and DMG2 definitely has a bit more focus on Paragon. WotC never really outright stated that this was the case, or that DMG3 would be 'epic' in focus, but presumably it would have talked about epic 'stuff' a bit, and contained some epic location information (like DMG2 did for the mostly Paragon Sigil). </p><p></p><p>They definitely did NOT do this with PHBs. I honestly feel that this would have been a mistake. It would have made the core 3 books released in 2008 not really a complete game. That was not going to fly, as you point out. I think all the tiers are integral to the game. Had they cut the game to 15 levels though, it would have cut back drastically on the page count for powers, and maybe feats as well, which certainly would have saved a good chunk of pages to allow for more classes/races and perhaps a bit more variety in things like EDs, which were pretty limited in the core rules.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8220982, member: 82106"] I'm not sure why the level range needs to be coupled to that kind of focus. Of course we know that, to a degree, DMG1 is oriented towards Heroic, and DMG2 definitely has a bit more focus on Paragon. WotC never really outright stated that this was the case, or that DMG3 would be 'epic' in focus, but presumably it would have talked about epic 'stuff' a bit, and contained some epic location information (like DMG2 did for the mostly Paragon Sigil). They definitely did NOT do this with PHBs. I honestly feel that this would have been a mistake. It would have made the core 3 books released in 2008 not really a complete game. That was not going to fly, as you point out. I think all the tiers are integral to the game. Had they cut the game to 15 levels though, it would have cut back drastically on the page count for powers, and maybe feats as well, which certainly would have saved a good chunk of pages to allow for more classes/races and perhaps a bit more variety in things like EDs, which were pretty limited in the core rules. [/QUOTE]
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