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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 2903883" data-attributes="member: 177">In the context of this discussion, &quot;broken&quot; is a subjective term.&nbsp; If the rules are &quot;broken&quot; because they don't do what you want them to do, fixing them means that the rules would be &quot;broken&quot; for someone else, who liked them better the other way.&nbsp; Just as you want your playstyle made easy, others want their playstyle kept easy.&nbsp; You speak as if it is, in general, easy to satisfy everyone.&nbsp; That is not the case.&nbsp; There comes a point where one must admit that the rules are not broken, they are simply not the rules you should be using.&nbsp; A screwdriver is not &quot;broken&quot; because it does a poor job of driving nails.&nbsp; My point is that this is only part of the story.&nbsp; In full: people are going to build characters that the campaign encourages.&nbsp; The rules are only one factor - the DM and other players also matter.It is true that, on the large scale, you should expect humans to follow the path of least resistance.&nbsp; But that is only an argument for change if you are sure that those people are unhappy with that path, and unable to find a way out of it.&nbsp; The rules are not broken if they allow most folks to play the way they want to play.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 2903883, member: 177"] In the context of this discussion, "broken" is a subjective term. If the rules are "broken" because they don't do what you want them to do, fixing them means that the rules would be "broken" for someone else, who liked them better the other way. Just as you want your playstyle made easy, others want their playstyle kept easy. You speak as if it is, in general, easy to satisfy everyone. That is not the case. There comes a point where one must admit that the rules are not broken, they are simply not the rules you should be using. A screwdriver is not "broken" because it does a poor job of driving nails. My point is that this is only part of the story. In full: people are going to build characters that the [i]campaign[/i] encourages. The rules are only one factor - the DM and other players also matter. It is true that, on the large scale, you should expect humans to follow the path of least resistance. But that is only an argument for change if you are sure that those people are unhappy with that path, and unable to find a way out of it. The rules are not broken if they allow most folks to play the way they want to play. [/QUOTE]

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