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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 5879624" data-attributes="member: 20805">A less linear experience requires flattening the math, something 5e is apparently doing.  Examples of this include CP2020, WEG SW, Elric, etc... In all these systems your hit points are static, your AC is pretty static, and your damage ranges are relatively static.  We could borrow from WEG the idea of combat scales and push that into the tiers where attacks against higher tier enemies are gimped {d6 damage capped at 5} and attacks against lower tiers are brutal {d6 damage minimum of 2}.. but I digress. Each of these games allow the new guy to jump right in with the veteran. My WEG Bounty hunter with 5 years of game time could adventure with a newly built character. Yes, I would have alot more options and be alot more reliable in combat {14 dice in blaster will do that..!} So, perhaps with flatter math, smaller sets of levels, and other changes we might be able to have a 1st level PC running along with a 10th level one.Related note, I was thinking that using tiers as treasure automatically creates an E6 style option without all the house ruling.</blockquote>