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:Sort of. The idea is that if someone made a feat that granted Fly 1/day as an SLA, you could determine whether it was a monk, fighter, rogue, or wizard level feat based on when it could be acquired by people in general. Early on in the game, and it's wizard. Later on and it's rogue or even fighter. One of the contentions of such a setup is that a wizard level option could instead by a fighter level option if you couldn't acquire it for a lot more levels (possibly well into Epic). And I'm not sure that everyone here buys that contention. Some abilities might never belong in certain game styles. But if we could work all that stuff out and wrote up a table (a long table as I'm finding out), you could look up the ability category of whatever you wrote and walk over to whichever balance column had the minimum acquisition level listed that was closest, but still under, your actual acquisition level. And that column would just tell you your balance rating. Classes get a bit more wiggle maybe, but they're just a collection of lookups at that point. Any guesswork happens in setting up the table and the minimum acquisition levels, but that can be crowdsourced once you have an outline for better results and style representation. - [[User:Tarkisflux|Tarkisflux]] <sup>[[User talk:Tarkisflux|Talk]]</sup> 06:16, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
:: Just note that you can't go just on that--you also need to see how much a class gets before saying it's balance range, not just when it gets what. For example, barbarian rage and fighter's feats and rogue sneak attack are all fighter-ish level (I'd say the last could potentially be rogue if done right), but if you combine enough of those together they start to encroach on rogue territory, etc. Same goes for other balance points, of course. --[[User:Ghostwheel|Ghostwheel]] 07:57, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
