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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 5183861" data-attributes="member: 50895">I read that whole article of fetishizing balance, much of if was disparity between fighters and wizards, well that doesn't apply to our gaming party, everybody is multi-class. There are no straight fighters or straight casters, everybody is both, and have been so for the majority of 2nd edition too. My issues of balance are between average party level and critters that are much too powerful as encounters - which is a problem of poor DMing.Next regarding wandering monsters - the point was made that published modules tend not to have wandering monsters charts, I haven't seen any since second edition. And when home-brewing I never use wandering monsters charts. What I do use, is a "side board" of one or two monsters that exist though are not in any predetermined location, but may come up during the 15 minute rest period. I say, I don't have a chart of 1 - 8 monsters, the randomness is whether my predetermined monster shows up or not. If it does show up, the monster is already balanced with the party level, and can't accidently become a killing machine.I agree Wandering Monster charts exist in 3e and Pathfinder RAW, but not in published adventures, and in my home brews not all.You can still put efforts into maintaining balance without fetishizing it.GP</blockquote>