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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 4974658" data-attributes="member: 2011">There are other initial design solutions which were better (course, too late now).Like not increasing ability scores by 8 or 10 in 27 levels. The ability score bonuses screwed up all of the defenses and required special rules.They screwed up Light AC, forcing masterwork in Heavy to keep pace (which btw, it doesn't anyway, Light AC outpace Heavy AC by 1).They screwed up 1 out of 3 NADs since at most 2 NAD ability scores can be increased each level.There are many feats that are considered "must have" by some players because of ability score boosts. Feats that don't really need to even be in the game system.And the reason for ability score boosts (or masterwork boosts for that matter) is because of the simple jarring math of:Monsters increase by 1 per level.PCs increase by 1/2 per level.In order to come near to the +14 bonus that monsters in 29 levels acquire over PCs, the PCs have to have a lot of extra bonuses thrown in over the levels.A system of PCs increase by 3/4 per level could have removed both ability score bonuses and masterwork armor.By level 30, monsters would increase by +29 and PCs would increase by +22 for level (basically using the same math as the Cleric or Rogue 3.5 BAB chart for to hit and defenses) and there would still be basically the same amount of room left over for magic items, powers and conditional feats as there is today.The math issue with a D20 system is that every +1 bonus is 5%. Get too many of them as conditional elements (i.e. differences between one PC and another due to feats, powers, magic items, and ability score leveling decisions), and the system starts creaking at the edges. The solution is to limit the number of different conditional bonuses possible.</blockquote>

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