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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 5538793" data-attributes="member: 20564">Everyone says math fixes; it's covered, I'll leave that off.#1 Clean up the cruft.  When 4e first came out there was a rush to put out crunch.  Much of that is explicitly obsolete, severely corner case, or just plain tired.  And it lends to option paralysis.You also get bigger delta between optimized and low-end characters.  Not as much because the high end has growth (it has, but not so much) but because the low end can be so much lower.#2 Expand improv actions (the famous DMG page 42) to explicitly talk about using powers in improv actions.  Got a power that lets you shift 2 then make a 2[W] attack?  Want to jump on a chandelier, swing across the room and attack?  How to combine the two to make powers a starting point to describe actions, not the definitive description of what happens.  (The recent article on terrain powers would be good examples for on-the-fly rulings for PCs/enemies using the terrain imaginatively.)  #3 (5e time) Take powers from themes/classes/races/feats to their next logical step.  Forget class powers, have classes give features that give a unique feel and support their role.  Powers are a wide selection of /flavorful/ and /distinct/ choices based on your character choices.  So an [Elven][Primal][Striker][Forest guardian theme][Feywild Homeland theme] with a [Bow] has little power choice overlap with a [Dwarven][Divine][Leader][Ancestral channeller theme][Lost tribe homeland theme] with [Axes] and [Totems].  And even two [Human][Martial][Defenders] will have some overlap, one using [Polearms] and one using [Shield] and [Heavy Blade] will still have some different power options (or perhaps similar power options with different riders in some cases).Seriously, it was a huge step from AD&D 2ed to 3.0 when they consolidated spells lists for the various classes.  Before you had the same spell (often with slightly different effects) multiple times.</blockquote>

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