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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7030039" data-attributes="member: 29398">Which makes sense if only because much of their audience is coming from the 3e-4e era where balance was talked about so much that people started noticing it even if before they might not have; and maybe now the pendulum has swung such that balance is getting more attention than it deserves.Which raises another important question: should they be designing to suit that environment or the home-game environment?  That the two environments are different there is little doubt; the same was true back in 1e with the RPGA and it hasn't changed much since.Maybe.I know that without too much effort (relatively speaking) I could kitbash 5e into something I'd run, I could probably even mangle 3e into something tolerable with quite a bit more effort, but I really don't think I could twist 4e into a game I'd want to run no matter how many hammers and saws and axes I took to it...and I'm a reasonably experienced "refiner" of systems. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Yet 4e by all accounts is the most balanced of the lot.Well put.I'm not entirely sure I agree that balance is the foundation on which all else rests, or if it is that it needs must be exactly level.  I guess an analogy might be the sea: from a distance it looks flat but get up close and there's some pretty big waves.  The question for each of us is our waves-vs.-flat tolerance. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Lan-"red sails in the sunset"-efan</blockquote>

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