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<blockquote data-quote="Roman" data-source="post: 4700782" data-attributes="member: 1845">Hello Wulf, I downloaded the Traiblazer preview PDF and it is interesting. The most interesting part for me is the breakdown of levels into various features (BAB, iterative attacks, HD, skill points feats, class features, spellcasting and so on) and the costs associated with each feature per level. Having said that, however, it seems like this is highly arbitrary and I don't really see the logic behind the breakdown (apart from obviously that higher say BAB should have higher costs - but why BAB is weighted at 0.10 to 0.20 of a level, rather than say 0.20 to 0.40 (just an example) is a mystery. BAB costs given, however, at least scale proportionately relative to each other, but that is not the case with HD. d4 is worth 0.20 of a level, whereas a d12 is worth 0.33 of a level, even though d12 provides 2.6 times as many hit points on average than a d4 (so if the costs scaled linearly and the value of a d4 was truly 0.20 of a level [though it is not clear to me why it should be 0.20 rather than say 0.25 or something else entirely], the value of a d12 should be 0.52 of a level) and at maximum 3 times the number of hit points. OK, you could argue there are diminishing returns, but that is actually probably less the case with hit points than say with attack bonuses which you scale linearly. I guess I am an inherent sceptic when it comes to what seem to be arbitrary numbers unless I see how they were derived. Would it be possible to show how you arrived at at least some of the numbers in the table? I am sure my confidence in the numbers would increase if a good rationale for them were to be provided.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Roman, post: 4700782, member: 1845"] Hello Wulf, I downloaded the Traiblazer preview PDF and it is interesting. The most interesting part for me is the breakdown of levels into various features (BAB, iterative attacks, HD, skill points feats, class features, spellcasting and so on) and the costs associated with each feature per level. Having said that, however, it seems like this is highly arbitrary and I don't really see the logic behind the breakdown (apart from obviously that higher say BAB should have higher costs - but why BAB is weighted at 0.10 to 0.20 of a level, rather than say 0.20 to 0.40 (just an example) is a mystery. BAB costs given, however, at least scale proportionately relative to each other, but that is not the case with HD. d4 is worth 0.20 of a level, whereas a d12 is worth 0.33 of a level, even though d12 provides 2.6 times as many hit points on average than a d4 (so if the costs scaled linearly and the value of a d4 was truly 0.20 of a level [though it is not clear to me why it should be 0.20 rather than say 0.25 or something else entirely], the value of a d12 should be 0.52 of a level) and at maximum 3 times the number of hit points. OK, you could argue there are diminishing returns, but that is actually probably less the case with hit points than say with attack bonuses which you scale linearly. I guess I am an inherent sceptic when it comes to what seem to be arbitrary numbers unless I see how they were derived. Would it be possible to show how you arrived at at least some of the numbers in the table? I am sure my confidence in the numbers would increase if a good rationale for them were to be provided. [/QUOTE]

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