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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Akrasia" data-source="post: 1867726" data-attributes="member: 23012">Well you might think (as I do) that the Weapon Mastery Rules in the RC help balance high-level fighters against high-level spellcasters, and thus correct an 'imbalance' in the existing core rules (but whatever  <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=";)" /> )...Since this thread is not IMO an 'editions war' (and I don't understand why people interpret it as such, as most of the discussion has focused on elements of 3E, and not arguing that 3E is better than 1E, or vice versa), I will move on to the core point:Merric, the fact that earlier editions of D&D were 'modular' but potentially unbalancing is actually irrelevant.  It does not change the basic point that Scribble (I think) has been trying to make: namely, that it could be possible to have a 'rules lite' core system, onto which additional elements -- feats, skills, complex tactical combat rules, and so forth -- could be added as desired.  (And as I mentioned in an earlier posts, there are systems that actually do this.) This is nigh impossible in 3E, as these rules are built into the core system itself.  Moreover, the fact that these 'crunchy' bits are included in the core rules -- and thus can be readily combined with other 'crunchy bits' purchased from various Complete Splatbooks, etc. -- is what gives 3E the appearance of being like MtG (the original complaint of this thread).Sure you can just play with the core rules (or some variant thereof), and ignore all the optional crap that is continually accumulating.  (In fact, those are the only kinds of groups that I would want to join.) But it does not change the fact that the 3E 'gaming culture' as a whole, so to speak, is increasingly resembling that of MtG.  And this was, I think, the original observation that led Storyteller01 to start this thread.</blockquote>

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