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Message: <blockquote data-quote="swrushing" data-source="post: 1432030" data-attributes="member: 14140"></blockquote>"Low level" brings in a great many things. It limits skills, making tasks more random in outcome, as well as limiting the scope of character abilities. it limits saves, it limits accuracies in attacks. In other words, sure, keeping everyone at levels 1-3 would drastically adjust the lethality of attacks, but it would ALSO drastically alter every other aspect of the character as well. Thats what i call a sloppy scope solution. It sixes a relatively narrow problem but at the same time changes/alters/affects a ton of other stuff.Its much much simpler, and much tighter in terms of consequences, to just make an alteration that directly and distinctly and discreetly affects only the problem area. (In this case, how much threat attacks are.)Note: He died.Which is quite heroic if the character's impression is right and the threat of death is their and actually likely. Its not heroic at all if the real result is that it wont kill him or even seriously hurt him barring a sequence of bad rolls in a row. At that point, its just minmaxing and playing the odds.On the other hand, if the character is at risk, options like throwing smoke, having others cause a distraction to draw fire, and (in player terms) burning action dice/action points/hero points would seem apropos.So if the sixth level soldier wants to fly and pass through walls, thats OK? Teleporting to the bunker and dropping the grenade in would be mighty heroic. How about that?Why? Its a nice theory. It might even be a fairly accurate description of "the way the rules are written" but why does this have to be so? Why is it a universal truth?Why does being very good at computers HAVE to also come with "can jump off tall building and soak the hit points"? Why does being a damn good shot also have to come with "and the LAW round itched a little but a little ointment and i am fine"?IMG, the difference in threat does not go down heavily with level. My character will not, at 15th level, be able to just take a hit and laugh it off from weapons that are threats now at level 5. They will be a little tougher, not much. They will of course by 15th have higher BDB, higher BAB, higher skills, more feats and be a lot more capable of avoiding the threats... but when the hit is a hit, they will be only a little less hurting than they were at 5th. So, instead of them taking the bullets, they will be more likely to spot the ambush, to get the drop on the guy, be harder to get hit due to better combat maneuvering, be more apt to score the hits at longer ranges, etc etc etc... all the hallmarks of seasoned warriors/adventurers in action films dealing with grunts.For whatever reason, so far, my guys seem to like that style of "showing superiority of the PCs" to the "Mongo can just take more hits and keep going" style of showing it.So, while it sounds nice and all, i do not accept that by even low levels like 5th or so the characters are madated into superhuman defy laws of physics levels, especially when it comes to taking damage.YMMV[/QUOTE]

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