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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7451371" data-attributes="member: 996">D&amp;D had always had a little of that.&nbsp; For instance, in 1e, fire spells popped up at lower levels, but tended to be more dangerous to your party, while cold spells at higher levels, lower damage, but more controllable. Maybe I was just used to that, but I thought I saw it in 4e.&nbsp; A cold power was more likely to slow or immobilize you, and to target FORT, for instance.&nbsp; Fire more likely to just do damage and target REF.&nbsp; Psychic, obviously, to target will &amp; to slide or pull.&nbsp; Thunder &amp; force more likely to push.&nbsp; Etc.&nbsp;It's hard not to notice the occassionally virtually-identical power in two different lists from the same Source, or the obvious 'upgrade path' versions of a nice Heroic power popping up at Paragon &amp; Epic.&nbsp; I think it stemmed more from wanting a presentation that kept the game simple &amp; consistent to a player stepping through the process the first time (mind you, the first time with a given character, from level 1-30, so not necessarily a 'new' player).&nbsp; &quot;Pick a power from your class lists at this level&quot; is much more intuitive, than &quot;pick a power from your Source List for this level, and apply your Classe's Role Enhancement* to that power by..blah..blah...blah...&quot;&nbsp; so is &quot;Replace your lowest-level power with One from class list at your new level&quot; even as oppossed to just adding &quot;...or upgrade one of your existing powers by ...blah...blah...blah... it now counts as a power of your new level.&quot;* my prefered hypothetical method to eliminate redundant powers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7451371, member: 996"] D&D had always had a little of that. For instance, in 1e, fire spells popped up at lower levels, but tended to be more dangerous to your party, while cold spells at higher levels, lower damage, but more controllable. Maybe I was just used to that, but I thought I saw it in 4e. A cold power was more likely to slow or immobilize you, and to target FORT, for instance. Fire more likely to just do damage and target REF. Psychic, obviously, to target will & to slide or pull. Thunder & force more likely to push. Etc. It's hard not to notice the occassionally virtually-identical power in two different lists from the same Source, or the obvious 'upgrade path' versions of a nice Heroic power popping up at Paragon & Epic. I think it stemmed more from wanting a presentation that kept the game simple & consistent to a player stepping through the process the first time (mind you, the first time with a given character, from level 1-30, so not necessarily a 'new' player). "Pick a power from your class lists at this level" is much more intuitive, than "pick a power from your Source List for this level, and apply your Classe's Role Enhancement* to that power by..blah..blah...blah..." so is "Replace your lowest-level power with One from class list at your new level" even as oppossed to just adding "...or upgrade one of your existing powers by ...blah...blah...blah... it now counts as a power of your new level." * my prefered hypothetical method to eliminate redundant powers. [/QUOTE]

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