victorysaber
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When I say "balance", I don't mean all CR 3 monsters must be equal, or all Fighter 16/Wizard 4 characters must be of equal power as Fighter 4/Wizard 16 characters.
I mean that everything must have an equivalent elsewhere. I have this obsessive need to find or create the equivalents for all factions. The following examples show what I mean.
1)Take Tieflings and Aasimar for example. They are evil and good outsiders. My kneejerk reaction was "where are the lawful and chaotic equivalents", found later in the Axani and Chaond in one of the MMs.
2)The same goes with Half-Fiends and Half-Celestials. How about Half-Lawful and Half-Chaotic templates? Eventually, with the help of the community here, I settled on Half-Anarchs and Half-Axioms, and Half-Equilibrants for the neutrals.
3)Obyriths and Baernaloths? How about all the other alignment-themed outsiders? Why don't they have a progenitor race? Where are the other progenitor races?
4)Psionics? How come there is only one "flavour" of psionics, while there are two "flavours" of magic (arcane and divine)? Solved by the coming of Complete Psionics and the Divine Mind, but only... partially. In the end I have intrinsic psionics to match arcane magic, and exoteric psionics to match divine magic. Psionic counterparts to rangers, bards, paladins, all exist in my world, making psionics truly on even footing with divine magic.
5)The Far Realm? Mapping them to the three levels of outsider templates/races (Half-Fiend, Fiendish, and Tiefling for example), I had to dig to discover: Half-Farspawn, Pseudonatural, and Kaorti as the equivalents.
6)The uneven number of super-powered outsiders (Asmodeus, Orcus, Primus, etc...) for each faction kills me.
Am I the only one who requires that everything be so perfectly balanced? Equal and opposite reactions? Similar equivalents for all possibilities?
Or am I alone in this incessant need for balance?
I mean that everything must have an equivalent elsewhere. I have this obsessive need to find or create the equivalents for all factions. The following examples show what I mean.
1)Take Tieflings and Aasimar for example. They are evil and good outsiders. My kneejerk reaction was "where are the lawful and chaotic equivalents", found later in the Axani and Chaond in one of the MMs.
2)The same goes with Half-Fiends and Half-Celestials. How about Half-Lawful and Half-Chaotic templates? Eventually, with the help of the community here, I settled on Half-Anarchs and Half-Axioms, and Half-Equilibrants for the neutrals.
3)Obyriths and Baernaloths? How about all the other alignment-themed outsiders? Why don't they have a progenitor race? Where are the other progenitor races?
4)Psionics? How come there is only one "flavour" of psionics, while there are two "flavours" of magic (arcane and divine)? Solved by the coming of Complete Psionics and the Divine Mind, but only... partially. In the end I have intrinsic psionics to match arcane magic, and exoteric psionics to match divine magic. Psionic counterparts to rangers, bards, paladins, all exist in my world, making psionics truly on even footing with divine magic.
5)The Far Realm? Mapping them to the three levels of outsider templates/races (Half-Fiend, Fiendish, and Tiefling for example), I had to dig to discover: Half-Farspawn, Pseudonatural, and Kaorti as the equivalents.
6)The uneven number of super-powered outsiders (Asmodeus, Orcus, Primus, etc...) for each faction kills me.
Am I the only one who requires that everything be so perfectly balanced? Equal and opposite reactions? Similar equivalents for all possibilities?
Or am I alone in this incessant need for balance?