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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5853601" data-attributes="member: 32740">The question in some ways cannot be answered.&nbsp; Certainly in 1E/2E vs. 3/3.5E vs. 4E the answer winds up being different for each.&nbsp; Each is in some part defined by the answer which was produced FOR that edition.&nbsp; What I want is for the answer to FIT 5E.&nbsp; If 5E works with only two 1st level PC's being equivalent to a single 10th level PC so be it.&nbsp; If its scaling then bends so that it also has ten 10th level PC's equal to a single 20th level - but it works for 5E - then so be it.&nbsp;You know, I remember saying this a LOT back in 2000 in the run-up to the publication of 3E: Don't judge 5E by its failure or success in being 1E or 3E or 4E.&nbsp; Judge 5E based on how well it does at being 5E.&nbsp;If 5E is indeed going to greatly flatten the power curve between characters of greatly differing levels that could actually be an approach to D&amp;D that I might highly enjoy.&nbsp; I've enjoyed versions with a quite steep power curve too and would be unlikely to reject the new version for ultimately doing likewise.&nbsp; What is more likely to irritate me is if it fails to make its designed power curve work enjoyably.&nbsp; I don't see how any of us will really know that until we have it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 5853601, member: 32740"] The question in some ways cannot be answered. Certainly in 1E/2E vs. 3/3.5E vs. 4E the answer winds up being different for each. Each is in some part [I]defined[/I] by the answer which was produced FOR that edition. What I want is for the answer to FIT 5E. If 5E [I]works[/I] with only two 1st level PC's being equivalent to a single 10th level PC so be it. If its scaling then bends so that it also has ten 10th level PC's equal to a single 20th level - but it works for 5E - then so be it. You know, I remember saying this a LOT back in 2000 in the run-up to the publication of 3E: Don't judge 5E by its failure or success in being 1E or 3E or 4E. Judge 5E based on how well it does at being [U]5E[/U]. If 5E is indeed going to greatly flatten the power curve between characters of greatly differing levels that could actually be an approach to D&D that I might highly enjoy. I've enjoyed versions with a quite steep power curve too and would be unlikely to reject the new version for ultimately doing likewise. What is more likely to irritate me is if it fails to make its designed power curve work enjoyably. I don't see how any of us will really know that until we have it. [/QUOTE]

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