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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6051576" data-attributes="member: 996">With bounded accuracy stripping away the illusion of advancement provided by THAC0, BAB, 1/2-level bonuses, 5e needs something to put back the illusion.&nbsp; Damage is it.&nbsp; For casters, top-level spells do level-appropriate damage - and other cool stuff, maybe to a lot of enemies - and lower level spells provide a variety of alternate choices at the price of less damage.For non-casters, XD grant level appropriate damage, or they can be squandered on 'interesting' maneuvers that do less damage for some variety (though not a fraction of the variety of casters, of course).So, it sounds like the developers have a basic idea of what they're doing.&nbsp; It's the usual double-standard, working one way for casters and another for everyone else, and balancing, in theory, at some prescribed number of encounters (or rounds or exp) per day.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 6051576, member: 996"] With bounded accuracy stripping away the illusion of advancement provided by THAC0, BAB, 1/2-level bonuses, 5e needs something to put back the illusion. Damage is it. For casters, top-level spells do level-appropriate damage - and other cool stuff, maybe to a lot of enemies - and lower level spells provide a variety of alternate choices at the price of less damage. For non-casters, XD grant level appropriate damage, or they can be squandered on 'interesting' maneuvers that do less damage for some variety (though not a fraction of the variety of casters, of course). So, it sounds like the developers have a basic idea of what they're doing. It's the usual double-standard, working one way for casters and another for everyone else, and balancing, in theory, at some prescribed number of encounters (or rounds or exp) per day. [/QUOTE]

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