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<blockquote data-quote="ColonelHardisson" data-source="post: 3014988" data-attributes="member: 363">Gaah! It seems that someone is always giving my answer before I get a chance to post. Yeah, I think &quot;game balance&quot; is a term that gets misused a lot, especially by those who have a beef with 3e and/or dislike 3e. But &quot;balanced&quot; is used to refer to encounters, and it generally refers to the same concept used as far back as D&amp;D's roots - challenges commensurate with the level of the PC or PCs. It seems a lot of old-school gamers forget that monsters were divided up by &quot;dungeon level&quot; back in the old days. That is, monsters were classified according to what level of a dungeon they would be appearing on, and these dungeon levels somehow corresponded to the level of the PCs. If you threw a monster at the PCs which was obviously not of their level, believe me, you'd hear some griping. So the notion that this concept is somehow new to the latest edition of the game is just plain wrong.That's a good point, one which is often forgotten.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ColonelHardisson, post: 3014988, member: 363"] Gaah! It seems that someone is always giving my answer before I get a chance to post. Yeah, I think "game balance" is a term that gets misused a lot, especially by those who have a beef with 3e and/or dislike 3e. But "balanced" [B]is[/B] used to refer to encounters, and it generally refers to the same concept used as far back as D&D's roots - challenges commensurate with the level of the PC or PCs. It seems a lot of old-school gamers forget that monsters were divided up by "dungeon level" back in the old days. That is, monsters were classified according to what level of a dungeon they would be appearing on, and these dungeon levels somehow corresponded to the level of the PCs. If you threw a monster at the PCs which was obviously not of their level, believe me, you'd hear some griping. So the notion that this concept is somehow new to the latest edition of the game is just plain wrong. That's a good point, one which is often forgotten. [/QUOTE]

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