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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6468030" data-attributes="member: 42582">Inherent bonuses are in the DGM 2, which has a Sep 2009 publication date. Powering up existing items in place of new items is in Adventurer's Vault, which a Sep 2008 publication date. Neither of these is &quot;years later&quot;. And inherent bonuses are so obvious from the house-rule point of view that I saw people posting about it before either of those books came out.The Adventurer's Vault system also answers [MENTION=34175]Thunderfoot[/MENTION]'s complaint upthread. The paladin in my game has worn the same plate armour throughout the campaign. At the start of the game it was non-magical. Relatively early on the Raven Queen blessed it (as +1 meliorating armour). The bonus has gradually stepped up over the course of the game, and is now at +6, reflecting the increasing fondness in which the character is held by his patron. The escalation of bonuses is not pointless, although the point may or may not appeal to any given gamer.The point of bonus-escalation in 4e is to drive the story relative to the default monsters published in the MM and adventure modules. The scaling-up of PCs bonuses means that at low-to-mid heroic, appropriate foes are the classic humanoids, while by upper epic appropriate foes are the most powerful demons, slaad lords, demi-gods etc.Within the recommended level range of enemies, 4e exhiibits relatively tight bounded accuracy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6468030, member: 42582"] Inherent bonuses are in the DGM 2, which has a Sep 2009 publication date. Powering up existing items in place of new items is in Adventurer's Vault, which a Sep 2008 publication date. Neither of these is "years later". And inherent bonuses are so obvious from the house-rule point of view that I saw people posting about it before either of those books came out. The Adventurer's Vault system also answers [MENTION=34175]Thunderfoot[/MENTION]'s complaint upthread. The paladin in my game has worn the same plate armour throughout the campaign. At the start of the game it was non-magical. Relatively early on the Raven Queen blessed it (as +1 meliorating armour). The bonus has gradually stepped up over the course of the game, and is now at +6, reflecting the increasing fondness in which the character is held by his patron. The escalation of bonuses is not [I]pointless[/I], although the point may or may not appeal to any given gamer. The point of bonus-escalation in 4e is to drive the story relative to the default monsters published in the MM and adventure modules. The scaling-up of PCs bonuses means that at low-to-mid heroic, appropriate foes are the classic humanoids, while by upper epic appropriate foes are the most powerful demons, slaad lords, demi-gods etc. Within the recommended level range of enemies, 4e exhiibits relatively tight bounded accuracy. [/QUOTE]

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