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<blockquote data-quote="Glade Riven" data-source="post: 5751267" data-attributes="member: 86468">The argument about balance is more about how to balance equality with options. The more options, the harder to maintain equality. And folk want different things out of the experiance.&nbsp;Still, beyond videogames my experiance is with D20 variants. 3e and 3.5 had trouble, but more or less worked with an adaptive DM. Star Wars Saga had some major balance issues (mostly problems of scale - starships can do that). Pathfinder successfully improves on 3.5, although there are still a few issues at higher levels (although folk still complain about the monk, because they don't understand the point of the class). 4e became too formulaic early on. Right now I've settled on Pathfinder as my system of choice - I find it offers the right blend of what I like. 5e may surplant it, especially if 4e is to Windows Vista as 5e is to Windows 7.&nbsp;No matter what system, a power builder will find a way to exploit it. A good DM/GM will not only account for that, but use it against them <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Glade Riven, post: 5751267, member: 86468"] The argument about balance is more about how to balance equality with options. The more options, the harder to maintain equality. And folk want different things out of the experiance. Still, beyond videogames my experiance is with D20 variants. 3e and 3.5 had trouble, but more or less worked with an adaptive DM. Star Wars Saga had some major balance issues (mostly problems of scale - starships can do that). Pathfinder successfully improves on 3.5, although there are still a few issues at higher levels (although folk still complain about the monk, because they don't understand the point of the class). 4e became too formulaic early on. Right now I've settled on Pathfinder as my system of choice - I find it offers the right blend of what I like. 5e may surplant it, especially if 4e is to Windows Vista as 5e is to Windows 7. No matter what system, a power builder will find a way to exploit it. A good DM/GM will not only account for that, but use it against them :D. [/QUOTE]

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