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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6939528" data-attributes="member: 996">Yes.&nbsp; All of them.&nbsp; Unless you consider never giving it a thought and not caring when the game 'went out of balance' as doing so, in which case, fine, they all 'require it,' but trivially so.&nbsp; Heh.&nbsp; Balance, and overcoming it?It's and issue of the quality of the system, sure.&nbsp; How huge that is depends on the system.&nbsp; D&amp;D has generally been able to do pretty well on its First RPG laurels and name-recognition.&nbsp;But, in the context of 5e, specifically.... In 5e, the DM is responsible for balance, not the system, the system isn't even fully formed until the DM steps ups and decides what to use, what to skip, and how much to change - and even then much of the system depends on judgement exercised by the DM, in the moment.&nbsp; But, yeah, I hear you.&nbsp; Maybe, at some point, we'll be able to come up with some kind of code that makes it clear when a DM is asking for information/opinions about the system, to inform his role as sole arbiter of that system at his table, and thus there's no need for such defensive shout-downs?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 6939528, member: 996"] Yes. All of them. Unless you consider never giving it a thought and not caring when the game 'went out of balance' as doing so, in which case, fine, they all 'require it,' but trivially so. Heh. Balance, [i]and overcoming it[/i]? It's and issue of the quality of the system, sure. How huge that is depends on the system. D&D has generally been able to do pretty well on its First RPG laurels and name-recognition. But, in the context of 5e, specifically.... In 5e, the DM [i]is[/i] responsible for balance, not the system, the system isn't even fully formed until the DM steps ups and decides what to use, what to skip, and how much to change - and even then much of the system depends on judgement exercised by the DM, in the moment. But, yeah, I hear you. Maybe, at some point, we'll be able to come up with some kind of code that makes it clear when a DM is asking for information/opinions about the system, to inform his role as sole arbiter of that system at his table, and thus there's no need for such defensive shout-downs? [/QUOTE]

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