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<blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 5448370" data-attributes="member: 78958"><p>I think many of the complaints we hear ("Casters too über!","This feat combo broken!","Animal Companion better than Fighter!" etc.) are due to the expectation that a game needs to be balanced.</p><p></p><p>D&D isn't balanced. In fact, Game Balance has been the first guy to be taken out and shot when the 3.x revolution came. However, his desk is still there in WotC's office, and people have started to revere him as a martyr. His legacy lives on in a game design world in which there is nobody left to live it. Game Balance is mourned and treated like a saint. But that doesn't make him any less dead.</p><p></p><p>And you know what? That's <em>fine</em>. Game Balance never did much for the game anyway. His work didn't bring anything to the table that was needed to play, and play <em>well</em>. So treating him like a saint is <em>retarded</em>.</p><p></p><p>Game Balance had a son. His name's All Characters Are Created Equal. WotC hired this guy and gave him a job pretty high up the pecking order. The even put All Characters Are Created Equal in charge of 4E. He messed it up good, not because he didn't live up to his father's legacy, but because his father's legacy is a <em>useless</em> idea in creating an RPG.</p><p></p><p>We don't want to play a MMORPG (but with pencils and worse graphics). We want to play an RPG. An RPG doesn't need Game Balance, or All Characters Are Created Equal. In fact, their whole boiling can go to hell for all I care. The game's good as is. No need to complain. Also, no need to complain about complaining.</p><p></p><p>[/ramble]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Empirate, post: 5448370, member: 78958"] I think many of the complaints we hear ("Casters too über!","This feat combo broken!","Animal Companion better than Fighter!" etc.) are due to the expectation that a game needs to be balanced. D&D isn't balanced. In fact, Game Balance has been the first guy to be taken out and shot when the 3.x revolution came. However, his desk is still there in WotC's office, and people have started to revere him as a martyr. His legacy lives on in a game design world in which there is nobody left to live it. Game Balance is mourned and treated like a saint. But that doesn't make him any less dead. And you know what? That's [I]fine[/I]. Game Balance never did much for the game anyway. His work didn't bring anything to the table that was needed to play, and play [I]well[/I]. So treating him like a saint is [I]retarded[/I]. Game Balance had a son. His name's All Characters Are Created Equal. WotC hired this guy and gave him a job pretty high up the pecking order. The even put All Characters Are Created Equal in charge of 4E. He messed it up good, not because he didn't live up to his father's legacy, but because his father's legacy is a [I]useless[/I] idea in creating an RPG. We don't want to play a MMORPG (but with pencils and worse graphics). We want to play an RPG. An RPG doesn't need Game Balance, or All Characters Are Created Equal. In fact, their whole boiling can go to hell for all I care. The game's good as is. No need to complain. Also, no need to complain about complaining. [/ramble] [/QUOTE]
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