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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5854103" data-attributes="member: 32740">In early versions of D&D the term "Heroic Tier" or "Epic Tier" has no meaning and no rules that make them meaninful.  There is simply the comparison in power/survivability of one level versus another when facing each other in combat.  And that's sort of the point.  If a single 1st level character DOES stand even a reasonable chance of defeating a 10th level character the concept of Tiers as 4E has embraced is blown out of the water. Frankly I'm quite interested to see a version of D&D that has a very flat power curve across PC levels and thus tells that whole "tier" concept to take a hike.</blockquote>