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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gradine" data-source="post: 5303679" data-attributes="member: 57112">Interestingly, you've hit on the biggest problem with themes; that there aren't enough of them. Players who don't like any of the themes present are slightly behind the curve, which either requires a homebrew theme to match what the player wants, or dealing with having one fewer encounter power than their ilk (now they know how dwarves feel!). Ironically, the other solution to this problem is for WotC to release more official themes, which by your definition equals more power creep.Oh... uh... yeah... well... your face gives a +2 to any trained skill!...Actually, I didn't even realize that was option; I always just thought of backgrounds as tool for when your chosen class lacks a skill that would make sense given your character's concept. That's certainly how I use them as a DM... I'd probably snip "+2 to trained skill" from the things backgrounds can give you.No, the reason that CoDzilla exists is because is that WotC didn't know how to balance classes back in the days of 3.x. Bards are infinitely more versatile than clerics and druids, but nobody ever talks about how broken they are compared to the divine classes, namely because they aren't.And besides, we're not even talking about more options in this sense. A cleric or druid who could sit down with the PHB and Spell Compendium and completely redress their character every day is an entirely different beast from a 4e character who instead of choosing between four level 3 daily powers now gets choose between nine or ten. They still only get one. That's only power creep if the newly introduced powers are much better than the core ones in every instance. They so far generally haven't been.I had thought we'd figured out by now that Dark Sun monsters aren't really any more powerful than MM3 monsters, and one extra encounter power doesn't exactly strike me as something that would cause across the board power surges in all monsters of any noticeable quality.And if it does somehow get to that point? Either there'll be enough themes out by that point that players will be comfortable settling with one, or you can adjust your encounter difficulties accordingly. If your campaign's houserules make your PCs slightly weaker than core PCs, then your monsters need to be weakened accordingly. This really isn't a new phenomenon by any stretch of the imagination.</blockquote>

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