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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 2606935" data-attributes="member: 12388">My opinion varies.Are we talking about balance for all people’s games?  For our own specific campaigns?  Balance amongst the Core Rules only, or in relation to supplements and D20 material?From the viewpoint of my own campaign, I think balance is only somewhat important.  This is because I know the rules well, I know my players (and their expectations well), I know that WotC (and all other D20 publishers) occasionally produce marginally to wildly unbalanced material; and with regard to all this I can determine when to say yes or no to a rule.Thus “somewhat important” fits best because what I might say “yes” to may not be what some other DM will say yes to.Consider the FRCS, the Mini’s Handbook and the Book of Exalted Deeds.  Some say these are all unbalanced, and I disagree with that.  I don’t think they are unbalanced for either my campaign or for anyone else’s campaign. But that statement comes with the assumption that everyone understands which books contain required rules, which contain optional rules, which provide rules for two related but separate games and which require radical restrictions on characters and strong group agreement before play even progresses.From a Core Game/Supplements/Other People’s Games, I think balance is Extremely Important.  I also think that each source for rules should effectively communicate how and under what circumstances the rules provided by each will apply.I think the statement that WotC doesn’t care much about game balance is wildly ludicrous and misinformed.J. Grenemyer</blockquote>

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