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<blockquote data-quote="Rakin" data-source="post: 3766603" data-attributes="member: 34721"><p>How can there be balance in a game where as long as you're not breaking the rules of the world anything can go? I mean that's one aspect, for me anyway, that makes tabletoping more appealing, the ability to think outseide of the box, even if it's not just for spells.</p><p></p><p>There's just to many possiblilities that can come up because the use of imignation that making any tabletop "balanced" is going to be impossible, well unless you fill the game up with so many rules and tell the DM and players that they are not allowed to deviate from them what so ever, but then why even play table-top at that moment, thats what computer games are for.</p><p></p><p>"What!? You used your bow to shoot out the only support for a boulder that slammed into 5 goblins!? That's unfair and unbalanced, there's no way my gnome illusionist could of done that kind of shot, and therefore couldn't of killed 5 goblins at once, waaaah, this game is unbalanced!"</p><p></p><p>Edit: I guess we should put in an illusion spell in order to move boulders.</p><p></p><p>"What, your gnome filled in the broken damn with a boulder using that new spell and saved a whole town and earned 4x the gold we did? That's Unbalanced! WaaaH!"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rakin, post: 3766603, member: 34721"] How can there be balance in a game where as long as you're not breaking the rules of the world anything can go? I mean that's one aspect, for me anyway, that makes tabletoping more appealing, the ability to think outseide of the box, even if it's not just for spells. There's just to many possiblilities that can come up because the use of imignation that making any tabletop "balanced" is going to be impossible, well unless you fill the game up with so many rules and tell the DM and players that they are not allowed to deviate from them what so ever, but then why even play table-top at that moment, thats what computer games are for. "What!? You used your bow to shoot out the only support for a boulder that slammed into 5 goblins!? That's unfair and unbalanced, there's no way my gnome illusionist could of done that kind of shot, and therefore couldn't of killed 5 goblins at once, waaaah, this game is unbalanced!" Edit: I guess we should put in an illusion spell in order to move boulders. "What, your gnome filled in the broken damn with a boulder using that new spell and saved a whole town and earned 4x the gold we did? That's Unbalanced! WaaaH!" [/QUOTE]
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