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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 8638098" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>If the game is going to add options, some power creep is inevitable - a character built (well) with PHB+supplement available will always be at least as powerful as one built with PHB alone. So if we want more options, we pretty much have to accept that there is going to be creep. And since I'd rather have those options than not...</p><p></p><p>That said, while the <em>overall</em> power will creep, and while I consider that a byproduct of a good thing, what I don't consider a good thing is where <em>individual options</em> creep in power. So if a splatbook publishes a subclass that is strictly better than subclasses in the PHB, that's a bad thing IMO.</p><p></p><p>(Thinking on it, one thing that would be really good would be if WotC maintained a discipline of adding options in inverse proportion to the power-level of the class they're building on. So rather than Wizards always getting the lion's share of the good stuff, instead the new "X's Something of Everything" books should focus more heavily on options to boost the Ranger and Monk. That way, any power creep that does occur serves the useful purpose of bolstering weaker options, rather than giving more to the already-haves.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 8638098, member: 22424"] If the game is going to add options, some power creep is inevitable - a character built (well) with PHB+supplement available will always be at least as powerful as one built with PHB alone. So if we want more options, we pretty much have to accept that there is going to be creep. And since I'd rather have those options than not... That said, while the [I]overall[/I] power will creep, and while I consider that a byproduct of a good thing, what I don't consider a good thing is where [I]individual options[/I] creep in power. So if a splatbook publishes a subclass that is strictly better than subclasses in the PHB, that's a bad thing IMO. (Thinking on it, one thing that would be really good would be if WotC maintained a discipline of adding options in inverse proportion to the power-level of the class they're building on. So rather than Wizards always getting the lion's share of the good stuff, instead the new "X's Something of Everything" books should focus more heavily on options to boost the Ranger and Monk. That way, any power creep that does occur serves the useful purpose of bolstering weaker options, rather than giving more to the already-haves.) [/QUOTE]
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