Quote Originally Posted by Phidius View Post
A melee with the fighter PL should be compared to a melee that lacks the PL, not to a completely different class and play style.

Attempting to balance one feature of a game around something that you feel (presumably) is unbalanced simply results in more imbalance.
It's clear that it should be "better" to have the PL.

I think cross-class comparisons are useful, especially since we've got a matrix (past life, if any ... current life, etc.). Does this make a fighter PL as useful for a melee as a wizard PL is for any caster?


This isn't a "balance" question with only two individual factors; the game is far more complex than that.



(EDIT and just so I'm clear - you're only talking about the framing of the comparison; there's no implied opinion on your part that it is or isn't OMFG-broken?)