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<blockquote data-quote="Garthanos" data-source="post: 5210102" data-attributes="member: 82504">Honestly LS are you in a bad mood ? Balance isn't about not letting people chose the threats they face.. (I see players avoiding encounters or out right running from them all the time PCs just arent wimps easily killed by one random die roll... and the DM has a better idea when he is challenging his players or not and he can give them fair warning (something Gygax always recommended and aimed for but never quite gave sufficient tools for)When characters are wildly divergent in competence you may find challenging one guy means making the encounters more deadly for others. And if you design your challenges for the other guys ... the one with uber competence never breaks a sweat.I will agree that complaining about this because you chose to let a tumbling piece of plastic be a strong determiner of the characters long term capabilities shrug... well I think you get what you get.None of this is necessarily a game breaker until it gets extreme its identical with optimized versus not so optimized characters</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Garthanos, post: 5210102, member: 82504"] Honestly LS are you in a bad mood ? [B]Balance isn't about not letting people chose the threats they face[/B].. (I see players avoiding encounters or out right running from them all the time PCs just arent wimps easily killed by one random die roll... and the DM has a better idea when he is challenging his players or not and he can give them fair warning (something Gygax always recommended and aimed for but never quite gave sufficient tools for) When characters are wildly divergent in competence you may find challenging one guy means making the encounters more deadly for others. And if you design your challenges for the other guys ... the one with uber competence never breaks a sweat. I will agree that complaining about this because you chose to let a tumbling piece of plastic be a strong determiner of the characters long term capabilities shrug... well I think you get what you get. None of this is necessarily a game breaker until it gets extreme its identical with optimized versus not so optimized characters [/QUOTE]

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