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Yep. This is why balance is aspirational - unless you tightly constrain the play space, there's no real way to know for sure your...

True, but balancing asymmetrical options is WAY harder.

things don't need to be the same to be balanced.

I missed this post on first reading, so I'd like to ask a question. How do you define "balance"? You've said it's a myth, but what is...

Since its been bemoaned to some extent for half a century, I'm not holding my breath on the latter.

Was it "driven by design"? Or was the design driven by player preference? Because that seems to be the root of the disagreement here...

I still like 4th. I would still run or play 4th. Didn't get nearly enough time or chance to play most of the character types I was...

The Ranger and the Bard need the biggest retuning for this concept. Rangers without actual traps and salves (which might be able to be...

Sounds great to me! In this current design climate, anything that pulls us away from "every class feature is just a spell" is good in my...

Back at the start of the One D&D Playtest survey process, WOTC tried out an idea of class grouping. One of the first grouping displayed...

Wasn’t there a comment about tilting at windmills earlier?

Let me put it this way: Would you allow yourself to be "incrementally change[d]" so that you accepted the kind of gameplay 4th edition...

Perhaps, perhaps not. I would be quite surprised if they aimed much lower than 60%. It's less a matter of feeling heroic, and more a...

While it is likely that people are assuming that number, I was given to understand that 60% to 65% is the target hit chance WotC has...

I remember this--although there was also a statement that a 16 in a primary attribute was assumed throughout the level range. However...