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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shard O'Glase" data-source="post: 849585" data-attributes="member: 1134">Yeah I'm fairly sure I mentioned that these were jsut guidelines, and I'm fairly sure I put no value judgements on the style of play. "Now obviosuly these are jsut guidleine and you could easily detail a town of 2000 or so that has only one church who dosn't sell ehaling potions, or who a town that doens't sell magic at all for whatever reason. "  Yep there I said these are just guidelines.Anyway the point is while you don't have to follow any guidelines, the standard setting under which classes are balanced uses the guidelines.  And using the standard guideline in a dicscussion of balance makes the most sense since settings can drastically effect the balance of campaigns.  In an underdark game a pure spellcaster, and those without darkvision are seriosuly disadvantaged thanks to the darkness and preponderence of SR.  In a low magic purchase campaign item creation feats become more valuable since that is one of the few ways to cusotmize your equipment and one of the few ways to be able to maintain a group of magic utility items.For the purposes of deteminng the supposed burden of healing how you run the ability to aquire healing potions/wands has a large effect.  But again for the purposes of balance its best to assume the guidelines are in place.  It doens't mean the guidelines are better or worse just that as the default its the only real point of reference people can reliably use.  Since we all know the default, and its how the camapign guideline on which the classes were supposed to be balanced.</blockquote>

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