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<blockquote data-quote="bert1001 fka bert1000" data-source="post: 8744056" data-attributes="member: 7029588">That may be it's origins, but I see its modern usage refering to the fact that pure martials mostly get more of the same but bigger as they level up (linear) vs. spellcasters open up wildly new areas of power and the power gap widens as well (exponential).The 5e Fighter can attack more and do more melee HP damage and perhaps do more battlemaster manuvers of the same types they could do at 3rd level.Meanwhile the 5e Wizard can do a lot more HP damage as well but can now also bend reality in many ways they couldn't at 1st or 3rd level to outright bypass problems they couldn't before.If you have a graph with the X axis level and the Y axis power + versatility then the Fighter line looks linear and the Wizard line looks exponential.Whether you agree with this or not, that is the common usage I see today of the term.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bert1001 fka bert1000, post: 8744056, member: 7029588"] That may be it's origins, but I see its modern usage refering to the fact that pure martials mostly get more of the same but bigger as they level up (linear) vs. spellcasters open up wildly new areas of power and the power gap widens as well (exponential). The 5e Fighter can attack more and do more melee HP damage and perhaps do more battlemaster manuvers of the same types they could do at 3rd level. Meanwhile the 5e Wizard can do a lot more HP damage as well but can now also bend reality in many ways they couldn't at 1st or 3rd level to outright bypass problems they couldn't before. If you have a graph with the X axis level and the Y axis power + versatility then the Fighter line looks linear and the Wizard line looks exponential. Whether you agree with this or not, that is the common usage I see today of the term. [/QUOTE]

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