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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Firebird" data-source="post: 9707383" data-attributes="member: 7015803">I don't care for balanced gameplay at all. I like systems that break balance much more than 5e does.But there are different types of balance, right? You can have a system that assumes the monsters are generally balanced with the PCs abilities, or one that doesn't. You can have classes that generally can all contribute in similar ways at similar times, or ones that don't--where class A is super useful in a combat and class B is not.The assumptions of 5e typically have 1) monsters encountered in an AP are generally the same level as the PCs, and 2) all classes contribute to all (or most) combats.The power creep in 5e isn't about having classes that differ in interesting ways, or a world that diverges from the PCs abilities. It isn't "two clerics play very differently and the the party with cleric A can trivialize some encounters by playing to their strengths" (fun). Its more "cleric A is strictly better than cleric B at everything". And that isn't fun.</blockquote>