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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 1452232" data-attributes="member: 10177">The most important thing to me in a game is fun. Everything else is secondary. The only time I worry about balance, in the way you posed your poll questions, is when it is someone new to the game.Otherwise, I let the players design and create their characters in whatever way makes them happy. Then I spend the rest of the campaign making them sweat bullets, or whatever.As for why there was such a mass exodus in 2e, it was because the DM's got so caught up in the minutiae they forgot the game was supposed to be about having fun. We DM's are the real key to making the popularity of this game spread. As long as we make people sit down and play "our way", the popularity is going to remain stagnant.So all of those people out there who sit around and judge others as min/maxers, munchkins, powergamers, or whatever P.C. derogatory term they can come up with, just tells me who has forgotten what having fun is really about, or never knew to begin with.Too many DM's are worried about control. What is that anyway? As long as I can create challenges for my players, and enjoy creating those challenges, and my players keep laughing and having a ball, everything is well and good at my gaming table.To sum up I will quote Diaglo (I think), "Balance, shmalance."</blockquote>