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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 2994830" data-attributes="member: 5889">I think people are forgetting that people didn't talk about balance much in 2e and earlier because they couldn't talk!!!The internet hasn't been around forever, and neither has places like enworld. Its only been relatively recently that we all could jump on big forums like this and talk about this stuff in the first place.And really, what else are we going to talk about? Balance is a nature consequence of rules discussion, and the rules of the game are a nice common denominator for everyone to get behind.Sure, I'd love to tell you all about boris, my character for this game in a custom world who has this cool item the dm made up for me, and does this and so forth. But without the context of the world I play in, the house rules we use, there's only so much you can say to that.But everyone has the rules. So if I say, "Hey guys, what do you think about X?" Everyone can grab their books, take a look, and drop in their 2 cents.So I think balance discussion is natural, and probably would have occured back in 1e and 2e days if players back then had a nice big discussion board to post ideas.</blockquote>