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<blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 1191948" data-attributes="member: 307">I use the rules as written. You see, experience poiint table are part of the rules of the game. Your formula appeared nowhere in the rules for 1e. Ever. Basically, you made up a metric for assessing the true power of a multiclassed character. The only valid basis for comparing the power of two characters is to compare them at equivalent experience point totals, since that is supposed to be the measure of their relative power.But all your metric does is establish that the standard rules are broken. Since the standard rules use epxerience points as the measure for characters, and those experience point totals show that characters at the same total can vary in power terms by huge amounts.I want to base it on how the rules of 1e actually worked, which is what we are talking about. Perhaps you want to base it on your mental image of what the game should have been, but here, we are dealing with what the rules actually were.ECL is a concept that didn't actually exist in the 1e rule set. So your argument is irrelevant to the discussion of what the 1e rules considered to be equal characters. Experience point totals were what mattered, since that was how characters were measured. Your metric is nonsensical when applied to 1e material.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Storm Raven, post: 1191948, member: 307"] [b][/b] I use the rules [i]as written[/i]. You see, experience poiint table are part of the rules of the game. Your formula appeared nowhere in the rules for 1e. Ever. Basically, you made up a metric for assessing the true power of a multiclassed character. The only valid basis for comparing the power of two characters is to compare them [i]at equivalent experience point totals[/i], since that is supposed to be the measure of their relative power. But all your metric does is establish that the standard rules are broken. Since the standard rules use [i]epxerience points[/i] as the measure for characters, and those experience point totals show that characters at the same total can vary in power terms by huge amounts. [b][/b] I want to base it on how the rules of 1e actually worked, which is what we are talking about. Perhaps you want to base it on your mental image of what the game [i]should[/i] have been, but here, we are dealing with what the rules [i]actually were[/i]. ECL is a concept that didn't actually exist in the 1e rule set. So your argument is irrelevant to the discussion of what the 1e rules considered to be equal characters. Experience point totals were what mattered, since that was how characters were measured. Your metric is nonsensical when applied to 1e material. [/QUOTE]

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