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<blockquote data-quote="Old Gumphrey" data-source="post: 5306399" data-attributes="member: 12872">Is anyone actually doing that in this thread? If you're directing that at me, I think you'll need to reexamine my posts and keep your snark to yourself. If not, good enough.As to the rest, do you honestly believe a person who made a post 6 months ago suggesting that every character get a free at-will power (the agreed upon power level of these thematic encounter powers by the rest of the thread) useable as an encounter power, so long as it fit their character's &quot;theme&quot;, wouldn't have been flamed out of existence? Because I firmly believe that they would have. You made some pretty good points, but you're also completely kidding yourself if you think a character with a theme, especially a low-heroic character, is not more powerful than one without. I mean...the psionic theme just straight up grants you an extra Power Point. That is the definition of power creep. As I said about backgrounds: just because a theme doesn't turn a campaign on its head and tickle its bum until it starts farting kittens does not mean that it does not increase your power. When you get something for the cost of nothing, that is power creep.Themes are unequivocally power creep. Is that bad? Doubtful. Is it more fun? Probably. Is it still power creep? It sure is. You even said yourself that it &quot;noticeably increases power&quot;, so why are we even opposed on the matter? You know what'd make a lot more sense to me? If you were still limited to 3 encounter powers maximum. Nobody ever said it was &quot;huge power creep&quot;. Your argument does not make sense in light of that fact.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Old Gumphrey, post: 5306399, member: 12872"] Is anyone actually doing that in this thread? If you're directing that at me, I think you'll need to reexamine my posts and keep your snark to yourself. If not, good enough. As to the rest, do you honestly believe a person who made a post 6 months ago suggesting that every character get a free at-will power (the agreed upon power level of these thematic encounter powers by the rest of the thread) useable as an encounter power, so long as it fit their character's "theme", wouldn't have been flamed out of existence? Because I firmly believe that they would have. You made some pretty good points, but you're also completely kidding yourself if you think a character with a theme, especially a low-heroic character, is not more powerful than one without. I mean...the psionic theme just straight up grants you an extra Power Point. That is the [b]definition[/b] of power creep. As I said about backgrounds: just because a theme doesn't turn a campaign on its head and tickle its bum until it starts farting kittens does not mean that it does not increase your power. When you get [B]something [/B]for the cost of [B]nothing[/B], that is power creep. Themes are unequivocally power creep. Is that bad? Doubtful. Is it more fun? Probably. Is it still power creep? It sure is. You even said yourself that it "noticeably increases power", so why are we even opposed on the matter? You know what'd make a lot more sense to me? If you were still limited to 3 encounter powers maximum. Nobody ever said it was "huge power creep". Your argument does not make sense in light of that fact. [/QUOTE]

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