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Fudging the Numbers in 3ed - Forked from: Why do you keep playing 4e?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4617843" data-attributes="member: 710"><p>Fine. I do. It's stupid, but well, people say the game is dumbed down, and maybe it's true. It's so dumb that even a stupid guy like me can fudge things.</p><p></p><p>But, on a more serious note: </p><p>I care about game balance. But I have little idea on how it is supposed to be achieved in 3E. The formulas that exist are complex, and there are certain "random" factors that the rules don't come out to explain. Of course, the truth is that all this is male cow excrement. Sure, there are formulas, but they do they really get you "balanced" monsters that guarantee certain CRs or anything? Absolutely not. But it took me quite some while to figure this out and convince myself of that. So long that I already switched to running Iron Heroes and used Villain Classes for my NPCs and even monsters! Basically, my monster design already arrived in 4E-land. But of course, the villain classes were also more "eyeballed" by Mike then, because they were reverse engineered and it was an imperfect solution.</p><p></p><p>Well, 4E does give me a very simple formula that works and says "the rest is up to you, but you can't really screw up much now".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 4617843, member: 710"] Fine. I do. It's stupid, but well, people say the game is dumbed down, and maybe it's true. It's so dumb that even a stupid guy like me can fudge things. But, on a more serious note: I care about game balance. But I have little idea on how it is supposed to be achieved in 3E. The formulas that exist are complex, and there are certain "random" factors that the rules don't come out to explain. Of course, the truth is that all this is male cow excrement. Sure, there are formulas, but they do they really get you "balanced" monsters that guarantee certain CRs or anything? Absolutely not. But it took me quite some while to figure this out and convince myself of that. So long that I already switched to running Iron Heroes and used Villain Classes for my NPCs and even monsters! Basically, my monster design already arrived in 4E-land. But of course, the villain classes were also more "eyeballed" by Mike then, because they were reverse engineered and it was an imperfect solution. Well, 4E does give me a very simple formula that works and says "the rest is up to you, but you can't really screw up much now". [/QUOTE]
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