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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 6077810" data-attributes="member: 3192">[MENTION=6674889]Gorgoroth[/MENTION], exponential XP requirements and disparity amongst class XP totals are ideas I've been expressing for a few years now. I don't find it necessary to hate 4e as it wasn't designed with such game play in mind. If you want to dig into where those ideas originated for D&D take a look at the original Dungeon! boardgame. They have variable class XP ratings for characters by class and yet balanced play for all players because of the variable dungeons levels on the board. EDIT~ balanced between players starting characters as it's a competitive game.Also, my thinking is Druids don't really put prices on heads - but maybe they do in their own way. I don't think animal intelligences operate on a trade principle, but there are other ways to convince them to aid you, especially if you're a druid and that does seem like trading action for something like affection.Lastly, you're coming off over the top in your post. I think early D&D tried to make character death a real possibility any player needed to actively heed or die and roll up a new one. However, the odds on how often that could happen if you were being cautious sort of match up with the Resurrection chances. Yes, you could roll a low CON score and, yes, you could lose a character to multiple character deaths, but overall most characters could make it to at least middle level with a modicum of intelligence. Making it to high level meant either upping one's game, showing how good a gamer they already were, or just boringly repeating grind battles long enough versus significantly weaker and XP poor opponents. Logarithmic XP and aging penalties also worked against this small ball stuff, but it was a strategy within the rules. In the end, it's the journey that's tells the story of player's proficiency though, not how often their characters overcame brutality.</blockquote>

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