power creep

Beyond that immediate political reality, there is always the risk of power creep.

"Every administration believes it is immune to the phenomenon of executive power creep," she added.

One of the reasons was that each subsequent expansion of cards greatly overpowered the previous sets (see power creep).

A cabinet leak revealed that senior ministers were divided on the proposal, which Cory Bernardi described as "dangerous power creep".

Successive materials suffered from power creep: as more books were released, the rules and equipment tended to escalate the relative level of power available to player characters and NPCs alike.