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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5833980" data-attributes="member: 2067">Good DMing 101: No Bottlenecks. There should be multiple valid solutions to any  problem, and you shouldn't "force" the players to do any one thing in order to proceed. Assuming the game is built to encourage good DMing, this is a non-problem. DMs don't have preconceived notions of how their scene should go. The game educates DMs to not have these notions. Of course, we can always have a particular "style" of campaign (say, a campaign focused more on interaction/roleplay than on combat), but these styles, assuming the DM is upfront about them, can help influence class choice. If a DM says that he will blatantly prefer one pillar to another, players can choose classes skilled in that pillar (paladins and bards instead of fighters and barbarians). It resolves it because if the players control their approach, they don't feel like their abilities are under-utilized, or that they constantly suck. If they did go into a situation they weren't good at for some reason (perhaps the reward for peace with the orcs might be better than the reward for killing them all), they could prepare for their failings, shore up their weaknesses, and head in fully aware that they need to be careful. "Viable" is different than "equal." Viable can be the difference between -5 and +5, which is still a significant mechanical divergence. "Always Wins" and "Always Looses" are extremes that it's smart to avoid, but there's a lot of room between those for people to have legitimately different odds of success in a given encounter. A bard SHOULD have a higher rate of success in social encounters than a barbarian. A fighter SHOULD have a higher rate of success in combat than a wizard. That doesn't mean barbarians can't grunt (even at -5), and that wizards can't have more than 1 hp (even if they are very frail), but it does mean the success levels can be measurably different.</blockquote>

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