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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UngeheuerLich" data-source="post: 5143944" data-attributes="member: 59057">lots of interesting posts here.@ positive feedback:Most interestingly, balance by rarity, thanks to stat requirements, held positive feedback in check:If you roll up a paladin, yu have to put your 17 or 18 into charisma. This means you don´t have it for strength and constitution. Without specialization and a very catastrophic xp table you quickly fall behind the fighters pure damage output. (If this is what balance is al about.)@ balance by risk: may spells were designed that way: summon elemental e.g. it could always turn around and kill you. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I have another balance aspect:Balance by playstyle:The wizard and the fighter were so different, that different players had fun with each of them, because they could shine in different situations. I can´t remember a lot of situations where my fellow players were unhappy with their fighters. I however neither liked the fighter, nor the pure wizard. A bard most often fitted best. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Also there was balance by monster/combat design. This would fall under DM fiat if you like, but there were monsters that suddenly made your casters or fighters quite obsolete. So everyone could shine. Also team play was encouraged because of very bad consequences if the fighter allows monsters to reach wizards.But the last balance mechanism was: balance by trust in the DM. Without a battlemap it was important that you trusted your DM that he allows each character to shine in combat. Of course he tried to reach the wizard with his monsters, but the fighter used "narrative powers" to help the wizard:"Come and get it" the fighter says, and the monster will try his best. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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