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<blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 6293381" data-attributes="member: 67338">no 2 10th level characters are the same... but what about a game with a 10th level cleric, a 9th level druid and a 15th level fighter and a (gish) 4th level fighter/7th level wizarda 9th, a 10th, an 11th and a 15th level character, how counter intuitive is it that the 3 lower level characters have BOTH a wider range of powers and more power in general?put another way... lets pretend we had a pre gen character that was 10th level he had 4 levels of fighter and 4 levels of wizard and 2 levels of rogue. we pass this character to 100 players and let them run through an adventure that will give them enough xp to go up 1 level... what gives them the most power 1 level of fighter, 1 or rouge or one of wizard? lets pretend that those 100 people broke pretty close to even, and 30 took a level of fighter and 30 took a level of rogue and 40 took a level of wizard... then you send them through the next adventure and they level again. of the 30 that took fighter 15 take another fighter and 15 took rogue, of the 30 that took rogue they also split 15 take fighter and 15 take rogue... of the 40 who took wizard 20 take wizard again and 10 take fighter and 10 take rogue...now can you tell me why the 20 players who chose wizard twice have the most power? why are they all counted as equals when they clearly aren't?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GMforPowergamers, post: 6293381, member: 67338"] no 2 10th level characters are the same... but what about a game with a 10th level cleric, a 9th level druid and a 15th level fighter and a (gish) 4th level fighter/7th level wizard a 9th, a 10th, an 11th and a 15th level character, how counter intuitive is it that the 3 lower level characters have BOTH a wider range of powers and more power in general? put another way... lets pretend we had a pre gen character that was 10th level he had 4 levels of fighter and 4 levels of wizard and 2 levels of rogue. we pass this character to 100 players and let them run through an adventure that will give them enough xp to go up 1 level... what gives them the most power 1 level of fighter, 1 or rouge or one of wizard? lets pretend that those 100 people broke pretty close to even, and 30 took a level of fighter and 30 took a level of rogue and 40 took a level of wizard... then you send them through the next adventure and they level again. of the 30 that took fighter 15 take another fighter and 15 took rogue, of the 30 that took rogue they also split 15 take fighter and 15 take rogue... of the 40 who took wizard 20 take wizard again and 10 take fighter and 10 take rogue... now can you tell me why the 20 players who chose wizard twice have the most power? why are they all counted as equals when they clearly aren't? [/QUOTE]

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