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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Campbell" data-source="post: 5973271" data-attributes="member: 16586">The progression meta game of high end raiding in World of Warcraft is pretty much a perfect example of this principle in motion. The buff/nerf cycle and changing of rotational priorities over time along with encounters that favor certain utility abilities heavily favor players who can adapt differing play styles with ease. The best progression groups feature players with multiple raid ready characters that can switch between and play optimally. This allows groups to change up their composition in order to take advantage of classes that are on the upswing of the buff/nerf cycle as well as specific encounter mechanics that favor certain classes over one another.AD&D has an element of this with spell casters being able to reinvent themselves on a daily basis, but only if adventures are within a certain range of difficulty and the DM does not stack the deck. Still, players do not acquire new spells fast enough or face differentiated enough opposition for such a meta game to be a major component. Counters are also too obvious and differences not subtle enough. Doesn't help that only some of the players even get to participate in the meta game. Fighters and thieves are entirely too locked into a suite of abilities.</blockquote>