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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 4042271" data-attributes="member: 22424">Actually, on thinking about this some more, I suspect 4e will handle mythic play rather better than 3e, simply by virtue of having the tiers spelled out up front.In 3e, there is a certain linearity to advancement. A 9th level Fighter doesn't look much different from a 10th level Fighter, which doesn't look much different from an 11th level Fighter, which doesn't look much different from a 12th level Fighter... and a 9th level Fighter also doesn't look much different from a 12th level Fighter.By contrast, if they up the rate of power acquisition with the tier breaks in 4e, then while the 9th level Fighter won't look much different from a 10th level Fighter (and the rest of that progression), the 9th level Fighter will look quite different from the 12th level Fighter, as the latter has picked up several powers that are just beyond the scope of the Heroic tier. And so, the Paragon character faces entirely different types of challenges than the Heroic one, not just the same challenges with bigger numbers.If they implement it properly, of course.I do wonder, though, if they wouldn't have been better served switching to a 36-level advancement scheme (because I'm old school), and using the same Basic, Expert, Companion and Master tiers as the old BECMI D&D. As things are, Expert sort of equates to Heroic, Paragon to Companion, and Epic to Master, and the 'Basic' tier is just missed entirely.I also wonder (contradictory as this is) if they wouldn't be better served by having fewer levels that characters take longer to go through, but with a bigger power jump from each. 30 levels in an eight month campaign means that players are going to spend an awful lot of time levelling up, for a relatively small gain each time through the process. Given how many campaigns die simply due to the fatigue of playing the same character for so long, I wonder if reducing each tier to just 5 levels wouldn't be better.</blockquote>

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