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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6101303" data-attributes="member: 82106">The point of leveling has ALWAYS been to get more 'juice' for your character, always. This structure is the primary reason D&D has been so popular through the years and what has distinguished it from games based on BRP (RQ), Traveler, and many other early RPGs which either entirely lacked that feature or where it was much less explicit. It is just that back in the day when ALL a fighter's class was about was hitting harder and being tough getting a +1 to-hit and another 1d8 hit points WAS a class feature. I don't know what you mean by a 'broader focus' in other words. Cool abilities might have been a little less granular for some classes, but there was no focus on anything else. D&D's entire focus has always been on leveling and IMHO I don't see it having any really different feel now than in 1975. In fact the 'focus' of 4e is vastly broader than OD&D, B/X, or 1e, which were all entirely about a party of adventurers delving down into a dungeon and gaining treasure and bennies.</blockquote>