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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 8309307" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Is truly an incomprehebsible design oversight that they didn’t tier the maneuvers from the outset.* It’s a trivial inference that folks are going to pick the best maneuvers early, inverting the paradigm of “advanced moves” as you level up, therefore leaving you nothing to look forward to.* As a knock-on effect, it should wonkify the power curve and balance of play (leaving you overpowered early and tapering off as you level).* D&D specifically, but TTRPGs generally, has tiered abilities by level forever (specifically because these issues have been known about forever).* If the idea was “the x axis is the primary axis where power is expressed in this game”, then the abilities you get later have to actually express that x-axis power (meaning, they have to actually consequentially open up the move-space with considerable frequency for the class) rather than being so deeply niche and underpowered that the conceptual move-space is opened up pretty much not at all. It’s really mind-boggling that this got past the final internal playtest.</blockquote>