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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 8434768" data-attributes="member: 710">I've heard complains about marks, because they are videogamey, not because they were fiddly. Of course, the way marks worked was a lot less videoamey than they usually work in videogames, where you just have some abstract "aggro" stat and for some reason, your fighter damage produces more aggro than the DPS guy's aggro. But Marks usually came with mechanical add-ons that actually seem to make sense in the fiction - because you're not focusing on the Fighter, he slips past your defenses and hits you. Or his god punishes you for striking the Paladin's friend Ouch. So your choice is dealing with the high damage guy and having the moderate damage guy turned into a high damage guy, or deal with the moderate damage guy that can take more punishment than the high damage guy. You're caught between a rock and a hard place.</blockquote>