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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 8859210" data-attributes="member: 2205">Raises hand; I was a big proponent of E6 right up until I called it quits and looked for another system altogether (my good opinion, D&D, once lost is lost forever. For those who get the literary reference.)But there is a difference. In almost every edition of D&D up until 4e, power level was something that CHANGED over time. Low level 3e PCs were heroic compared to their BECMI or AD&D counterparts, but high level PCs were powerful no matter which edition you used, and seemed to operate in an entirely different genre to their low level segments of play. There seems to have been a shift with 4e and 5e towards just embracing the high power and pushing it down to the low levels. Which is somewhat ironic, as it seems the concept of bounded accuracy implied the opposite; that even high level characters could be challenged by orcs and goblins, etc. But maybe I just misinterpreted the design goal, or maybe it was done poorly. It seems the opposite has come true; low level PCs operate like superheroes.</blockquote>