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<blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 6378715" data-attributes="member: 1879">Bounded accuracy is a big one. It means the difference between a Fighters to Hit roll at 1st and 20th level is likely to be 9 (+4 Prof bonus + 2 stat and +3 weapon) instead of 30+Collarary to this is that monsters remain useful over vastly greater ranges of PC levels. An Ogre is a good boss monster at low levels and not to be sneered at at high levels.Wizards (and all other casters) do have more flexible casting, but they pay for this in a few ways. <ol>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">They now have drastically fewer slots, especially at high levels.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">The new concentration rules mean any given caster is maintaining 1 and only 1 buff or debuff at a time.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Spell damages scales by slot used, rather than caster level. So a 5th level mage and a 20th level mage casting a fireball out of a 3rd level slot do the same damage. The 20th level mage can use a higher level slot to get more juice from it though.</li>
</ol>Bards don't suck anymore. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> You have to read the rules carefully, you can get tripped up by 3e expectations in things like damage, crits and AoO.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andor, post: 6378715, member: 1879"] Bounded accuracy is a big one. It means the difference between a Fighters to Hit roll at 1st and 20th level is likely to be 9 (+4 Prof bonus + 2 stat and +3 weapon) instead of 30+ Collarary to this is that monsters remain useful over vastly greater ranges of PC levels. An Ogre is a good boss monster at low levels and not to be sneered at at high levels. Wizards (and all other casters) do have more flexible casting, but they pay for this in a few ways. [LIST=1] [*]They now have drastically fewer slots, especially at high levels. [*]The new concentration rules mean any given caster is maintaining 1 and only 1 buff or debuff at a time. [*]Spell damages scales by slot used, rather than caster level. So a 5th level mage and a 20th level mage casting a fireball out of a 3rd level slot do the same damage. The 20th level mage can use a higher level slot to get more juice from it though. [/LIST] Bards don't suck anymore. :D You have to read the rules carefully, you can get tripped up by 3e expectations in things like damage, crits and AoO. [/QUOTE]

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