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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KidSnide" data-source="post: 3743294" data-attributes="member: 54710">Well, they may flatten the power curve, but that's not the same as expanding the sweet spot.  When they said that they wanted the feel of 3E levels 4-14 to apply to 4E levels 1-30 that doesn't mean that a 4E L30 character is as powerful as a 3E L14 character.  Frankly, since 21-30 is supposed to be epic, I imagine a 4E L30 character to be similar in *power* to a 3E L30 character.  (4E L1 will likely be stronger than 3E L1, since 3E L1 is viewed as too weak to be fun.)The aspect that will be leveled out across L1-30 in 4E is the *complexity* of playing the characters.  For example, I expect there to vastly fewer buff effects to avoid the massive accounting involved in high-level 3E play.  Similarly, with per/encounter abilities replacing much of Vancean memorization, I expect there to be less pre-game prep work.  A L30 caster will have a less mind-numbingly large number of choices with which to deal.  However, fighters of all level will gain maneuvers, and so those characters will have an increased number of reasonable choices.  If I had to guess, like Tome of Battle, we will see characters replacing weak spells/maneuvers/abilities with more powerful spells/maneuvers/abilities as they gain levels.  The number of choices will stay within a reasonable bound even as the individual choices get stronger.</blockquote>