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<blockquote data-quote="Nail" data-source="post: 4563427" data-attributes="member: 224">The half-level bonus (or penalty -&gt; whatever) applies only to PCs.&nbsp; It doesn't apply to monsters. To make it work on monsters you'd have to start with their &quot;+1/level bonus&quot;, and subtract out your estimates for how all other effects are fit in. The OP (if I understand him correctly) didn't want to worry about level at all.&nbsp; Thus he'd have to rebalance monsters (which would mean more than subtracting 1/2 level) so that level had no effect on how well (or poorly) you attacked or defended.&nbsp; That is, he wanted to replicate the default &quot;hit 50% assumption&quot; across all levels.If, instead, he meant &quot;simply impose a -1/2 level penalty on all PC and monster stats&quot;, then I agree that the net difference is the same.&nbsp; But the PCs would find much less difference in attacking creatures above and below their own level.&nbsp; Given that we know monsters advance at +1/level, we can guess that this difference is reduced from +1/level to +1/2 level.&nbsp; I can't see how that would be a Good Thing(tm).&nbsp; Given the responses in this thread, it's clear YMMV.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nail, post: 4563427, member: 224"] The half-level bonus (or penalty -> whatever) applies only to PCs. It doesn't apply to monsters. To make it work on monsters you'd have to start with their "+1/level bonus", and subtract out your estimates for how all other effects are fit in. The OP (if I understand him correctly) didn't want to worry about level at all. Thus he'd have to rebalance monsters (which would mean more than subtracting 1/2 level) so that level had no effect on how well (or poorly) you attacked or defended. That is, he wanted to replicate the default "hit 50% assumption" across all levels. If, instead, he meant "simply impose a -1/2 level penalty on all PC and monster stats", then I agree that the net difference is the same. But the PCs would find much [i]less[/i] difference in attacking creatures above and below their own level. Given that we know monsters advance at +1/level, we can guess that this difference is reduced from +1/level to +1/2 level. I can't see how that would be a Good Thing(tm). Given the responses in this thread, it's clear YMMV. [/QUOTE]

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