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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 7169671" data-attributes="member: 15700">Not necessarily, because depending on what the goal was for the game, balance can mean different things.&nbsp; AD&amp;D was actually very balanced from a macro level.&nbsp; I've played it as my preferred edition for 35 years, and there were just as many magic user PCs as rangers or thieves, or clerics.&nbsp; So in that context, they were very balanced classes.&nbsp; If you were to break them down on a per level basis, and look at only the math, then you'll find lots of things that would make you consider the game not balanced.&nbsp; However, the game isn't played only at X or Y levels, but intended to be played over an entire campaign.&nbsp; So that weak wizard at level 2 was very powerful at level 9.&nbsp; It balances out that way.With regard to racial limitations, the game was designed intentionally to be human centric.&nbsp; So those limitiations were there to balance out the game to that objective, not necessarily to have race X be mechanically balanced with race Y.What is or isn't balanced relies greatly on the level of micro vs. macro perspective you have, and what the goal of the game is.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 7169671, member: 15700"] Not necessarily, because depending on what the goal was for the game, balance can mean different things. AD&D was actually very balanced from a macro level. I've played it as my preferred edition for 35 years, and there were just as many magic user PCs as rangers or thieves, or clerics. So in that context, they were very balanced classes. If you were to break them down on a per level basis, and look at only the math, then you'll find lots of things that would make you consider the game not balanced. However, the game isn't played only at X or Y levels, but intended to be played over an entire campaign. So that weak wizard at level 2 was very powerful at level 9. It balances out that way. With regard to racial limitations, the game was designed intentionally to be human centric. So those limitiations were there to balance out the game to that objective, not necessarily to have race X be mechanically balanced with race Y. What is or isn't balanced relies greatly on the level of micro vs. macro perspective you have, and what the goal of the game is. [/QUOTE]

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