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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormborn" data-source="post: 2635821" data-attributes="member: 14041">3rd edition has had Level Adjusted races since the begining, based on the idea that you could play a more powerful race in exchange for progressing as a character more slowly.However, would you play a Class that was slightly more powerful than other classes if it meant you leveled up less frequently than your peers?  Basically a class where you had an XP penalty of say 10% or 25% or even 50%.The idea behind this:  In most Sword and Sorcery/High Fantasy novels magic users are frequently seen as much more powerful than their fellows.  Ars Magica grants this by having all players play a mage and others at the same time.  But what if you didn't want to play a magic user?  Could you have an Ars Magica style (AM is just an example, don't get caught up on that) mage class in a d20 game, obviously more powerful than the other classes, if you penalized the class in some way such as XP?  Thus say a 4th level Swordsman would be balanced against a 2nd level Mage, or the like.</blockquote>