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Message: <blockquote data-quote="N'raac" data-source="post: 6194081" data-attributes="member: 6681948">The point posted, as I see it, was that you had indicated "How I run my games says nothing about the system's/spellcaster's balance.", to which the response was "But some book of guidelines written by someone you've never met does?"That would be whatever book suggests that there is, or is not, balance and/or how to achieve balance.  If there is imbalance in your games and none in Ahnehnois' games, then I have to question how that happens, using the same set of rules.  Either the unbalanced game reflects poor/inept GMing, or the balanced game reflects players not leveraging the rules.  With some GM's claiming they are not experiencing a problem, and others reporting they are, one of the two must be true, and there doesn't seem an objective means of determining which is correct.From other comments, the question seems to revolve, in part, over how a good GM will inperpret spells where there are multiple possible interpretations.  Those suggesting the power disparity is vast seem also to favour interpretations which grant the wizard greater power and flexibility, while those reporting better balance between warriors and casters seem to favor interpretations that restrict the power of spells.  Is it possible the designers intended greater balance, and the more restrictive interpretations?</blockquote>