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<blockquote data-quote="Marshall" data-source="post: 4776373" data-attributes="member: 765">Which should be irrelevant to the design process of the powers. If you're designing powers on the premise that some day you'll publish a feat, all you are doing is undermining those powers until that day. On top of that, you are making that feat necessary to the use of those powers.You need to design all powers so that they begin at a relatively equal power level, then you design the feats so they add a relatively equal amount to the various powers. Its tough, but if all powers are balanced with each other and all feats are balanced with each other then all feat+power combinations should be balanced with each other.Corner cases and hyperspecializations not withstanding.True, but at some point you cant foresee all the power A + feat A + feat B + class ability Y + other classes power A = pwnage. You just have to make sure you've got balanced, linear progression in powers/feats/abilities and trust the DMs to lay the smackdown on munchkins.I guess the problem is that saying a fire spell is 29th level means it has the power of a 29th level power. Not that it has 29th level power if and only if you take these two feats along side it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marshall, post: 4776373, member: 765"] Which should be irrelevant to the design process of the powers. If you're designing powers on the premise that some day you'll publish a feat, all you are doing is undermining those powers until that day. On top of that, you are making that feat necessary to the use of those powers. You need to design all powers so that they begin at a relatively equal power level, then you design the feats so they add a relatively equal amount to the various powers. Its tough, but if all powers are balanced with each other and all feats are balanced with each other then all feat+power combinations should be balanced with each other. Corner cases and hyperspecializations not withstanding. True, but at some point you cant foresee all the power A + feat A + feat B + class ability Y + other classes power A = pwnage. You just have to make sure you've got balanced, linear progression in powers/feats/abilities and trust the DMs to lay the smackdown on munchkins. I guess the problem is that saying a fire spell is 29th level means it has the power of a 29th level power. Not that it has 29th level power if and only if you take these two feats along side it. [/QUOTE]

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