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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gorgoroth" data-source="post: 6080001" data-attributes="member: 6674889">I don't want caster supremacy in all pillars of the game, just in some, and not all the time either. I'm a big fan of giving fighters and barbarians and rangers back lots of oomph, and yeah I played pathfinder and found melee types were often rolled over by classes like summoners or alchemists. I made a beastmorph alchemist that was easily 10x better in every way than my barbarian. I don't want that either. Look I get what you guys are saying about creative improv being possible. It's just I never saw it. It's like I said, living in a world of very strict laws and then saying, well we can just make up new ones whenever we want, but if we try it's extremely slow or we get sidelong glances like we were "cheesing it". I don't want to spend all this time picking and choosing powers and then get a daily at level 9 that's worse than what the rogue or the ranger can do at level 1 or 5. Quite often, a higher level power was worse than a lower level one!I just don't know why we never picked up on the whole improv thing...maybe after spending so much effort learning to strategize around our powers, our minds started to calcify into rigid patterns. We had square thoughts that resisted circles, maybe? I don't know...all I do know is that there was something there, or something not there...that resulted in people giving up on trying to roll those DCs to do creative things and stopped bothering. For one, it ground the entire game to an even slower pace than it already was, even with rigid choices! Decision paralysis. There was *something* wrong...it's hard to put a finger on it...but even though I'm not a game designer by profession, I can see it. Maybe the whole is a great game, it's just not a great D&D game, and probably not even a very good one. 3 years after it came out, I couldn't find a single gaming group in my entire city of 1.5 million people who were still playing it or wanted to try it again. Kind of a pity, I bought so many of the books. Maybe I'm just bitter, lol. One thing's for sure. I am never, ever playing another game that doesn't immediately grab me. Life's too short to "give it a chance". I've given mediocre or bad games enough of my life already (I've made 17 AA/AAA video game titles, and most I wouldn't care to play again).</blockquote>

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