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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 4564107" data-attributes="member: 71571">The 1/2 level bonus is so that level matters more than just hps and feats and a power here and there.  The 1/2 level bonus is the 30th level character's way of saying 'Yeah, I -AM- a demigod, thanks for asking.'  It's the way you can mark yourself as above the riffraff, because they can't even -touch- you.Epic characters can do crazy things like running across ropes (that are on fire) hanging over a chasm filled with fire, lightning, and something else that can only be described as 'elemental hatred.'  Under a non-raising system, that character would find himself stumped by trying to cross a board across a rooftop.Characters get their bonuses to untrained stuff because they actually -pick up- and -learn- a thing here and there about the environments they adventure in.  What makes less sense--that a -professional badass- would be to retarded to learn that red dragons breath fire no matter how many he fought... or that they do, in fact, breath fire, and that he might have heard a few other things on the side from listening to the know-it-all wizard?I, for one, put my money in the hat that says player characters aren't utter retards and actually learn stuff.</blockquote>