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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MG.0" data-source="post: 6675326" data-attributes="member: 6799436">...and I find the mechanism (attunement) used to prescribe those limits to be clunky and ineffective. I am perfectly capable of running a balanced campaign without resorting to a rule I feel limits characters in arbitrary (almost video-game like) ways.If you feel I have overlooked some critical aspect of attunement, please enlighten me. Seriously, it is possible for anyone to overlook almost anything. But please don't resort to "don't question, because the designers know best", because you know what? They usually don't. They're under pressure to produce a commercial product in a fixed time-frame. That is not conducive to finding the optimum design. D&D has had an almost organic growth for nearly 40 years and it is STILL carrying some bizarre baggage that should have been dropped long ago, while adding some new things which make you scratch your head and wonder if the author has ever even played the game before. Overall I really enjoy D&D (wouldn't play it otherwise), but none of it is gospel.</blockquote>