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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6146678" data-attributes="member: 22779">Of course you can.  In a balanced campaign, one which features equal amounts of combat and exploration and interaction (the three pillars if you will) then neither feat will be measurably better than another.  You will get pretty much equal traction out of either feat.  If the game leans more heavily on combat, then weapon focus is likely better, in that specific situation, which is actually outside the baseline presumptions of the game in the first place.However, your second point that one option is "unambiguously better than the other" betrays a pretty stark lack of knowledge of gaming systems.  Two Weapon fighting in 2e is flat out better than any other fighting style.  Longswords in 1e were flat out better than any other weapon - virtually all magic weapons will be longswords, the damage dice and the weapon vs armor charts make longswords flat out better than any other weapon.  And that's right in the PHB.  Clerics in 3e are easily better than monks.  In virtually any situation and certainly over the course of a campaign, a cleric will shine far more than a monk.  It attacks better, does more damage, has way more options and is better out of combat as well.  There's nothing a monk can do that a cleric can't do better.  Never minding Druids.  There's a reason people talk about CoDzilla.  And, if you don't believe me, we'll take two groups through any module you care to name - my group is 3 clerics and a druid, your group is 4 monks, and we'll see who gets further.Trying to whitewash balance issues by pushing it off onto individual DM's is the reason why so many games fail.  Many DM's, particularly starting ones, don't have the experience to know how to fix the broken systems.  So, you get someone like me, who is interested in the nuts and bolts of gaming systems, sitting down at different tables, and the DM throws up their hands crying, "Hussar is a bad powergamer, his character just steamrolled over my encounter" when all I've done is pull stuff straight out of the PHB.  I mean, I mentioned one DM crying powergamer earlier, when my cleric had two levels of half-elemental.  Yeah, I'm a powergamer for taking off class levels in something that granted me fire resistance and the ability to cast burning hands a couple of times a day.  Ooooh...But, that's my point.  IME, people who claim that game balance doesn't matter, or is less important than "DM balance" have very a very poor grasp on mechanics and are quickly overwhelmed by players who actually take the time to read the rules.</blockquote>

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