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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 1455589" data-attributes="member: 633">The DMG there speaks about simplifying combat as a technique to shift focus to the story. It is talking about rules complexity, and combat vs. story. I honestly don't get where balance comes in. Damn, why did they remove the question mark smiley, it worked better than <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />.No, that is taking me a bit out of context, though maybe I just wasn't clear enough. I said that removing balance to have "more time to do something else" is laziness IMO, not that removing anything to have more time is. Streamlining combat in order to give more attention to the story is a very valid technique, though not one I'd employ (there are better alternatives). But certainly simplifying the rules doesn't imply removing balance.  The part where I definitely wasn't clear enough is that by putting "more time to do something else" in quotes I meant to emphasize the generic nature of that "something else" (and I probably failed <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />). To explain myself better, I think that if you wish to remove balance you need a very valid, specific and defined reason. Removing balance because there is too much emphasis on balance... is not a good reason, not good enough anyway; you need to either tell me exactly what bad things balance is doing, or exactly what good things you can do that balance prevents you from doing. Otherwise, it sounds like removing a good thing for nothing.</blockquote>

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