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Do "Seeing GMs brag about it" count? Does having sometimes leaned a bit in that direction yourself in your younger days count? If so...

I kind of consider that an element of my note 2, but point taken.

The only time I've seen what I thought was an ineffective PF2e character was people who actively avoided what the games tell you is...

Often its done for one of two purposes: 1. Prepaying for ancillery costs, such as when you actually want art that isn't something like...

Its not a coincidence that PF2e has made it much harder to do that sort of thing to yourself, even deliberately.

Not sure if anyone else has mentioned it, but it's balanced in that it offers equal opportunity to all players to have the same stats...

Its certainly true in some games that are actively designed for inter-player benefits. I can't speak for the current generations of D&D...

And yet Gary is taken as The Word when it comes to how D&D should be played. The OSR started as "D&D as Gary intended". We had a whole...

Are you familiar with the section of the (IIRC) 1e DMG where it specifically instructs the GM to behave in a passive-aggressive manner...

That's the key, of course. You can't entirely guarentee that the final result out of point distribution or even arrays will be balanced...

As a follow-up to my previous post: For me, not-balanced is boring. Because an unbalanced game does one of two things. Either it makes...

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...

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

One thing I learned getting an MBA was that the #1 predictor of success in a market was being first in the market. Another thing I...

Whoops, didn't realize this was a massive necro.