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Message: <blockquote data-quote="N'raac" data-source="post: 6244087" data-attributes="member: 6681948">Given our discussion is supposedly framed around answering the question of balance between spellcasters and nonspellcasters, but in a broader sense balance between characters, your comments above lead to a fairly obvious (in my view) question - do some skills (which I expect are linked to certain types of characters) lend themselves to broader application, thereby granting characters who would normally focus on those skills a greater, broader and/or easier means of influencing the narrative?  The two skills which leap to mind are Arcana and Religion, which would be the two skills associated with the major spellcasting classes.  Meanwhile, your examples seem to relegate my knowledgeable Bard to the sidelines in that three of your four "Don't be stupid!" examples relate to knowledge and Performance skills.  The fourth would be Religion, where you have indicated a different use might easily be successful.You also noted you specifically wrote in elements which would provide Sheadunne the opportunity to use his major skill, Nature.  This doesn't seem like a technique unique to Indie gaming, but simply a tool designed to allow each character their time in the spotlight, highlighting their special skills.  Presumably, a similar approach wold be adopted to provide opportunities for the knowledge-based Bard.  By writing in challenges suited to being addressed by the warrior's skills or abilities in a 3e game, do we not effect balance in a similar  manner?  I don't think designing scenarios, scenes and challenges with the specific abilities of the various PC's in mind is a unique innovation of Indie games - it's a standard GMing technique which has existed for as long as RPG's have existed.</blockquote>

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