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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Melkor" data-source="post: 5314764" data-attributes="member: 10786">Hi Hussar,It wasn't my intention to insult anyone who considers themselves to be 'power gamers.' and I wasn't saying that somehow, the players in my gaming group were superior roleplayers with no need for 'that powergaming crap.'Rather, I was just stating that in my own experience, we never really worried about tried to play the most powerful build of character we could generate, and my long-term DM never sought to create enemies that did the same thing, so I have no experience with that style of play....and that style of play, I have noted over the years of 3rd Edition, has exposed several rules that people feel are 'unbalanced.'Again, in 25+ years of playing, I have NEVER had a character over 10th level, so a lot of perceived balance issues with any edition were never something I personally experienced.My real point in posting was to wonder if 'balance issues' in older editions were the same as they are in 3rd edition - in other words, there is a possibility for major issues to crop up in previous editions just as much as in 3.5, but having played older editions for nearly two decades, and not having any problems, would it be just as feasible to play 3.5 at high levels with my gaming group without ever experiencing the balance issues experienced by others?</blockquote>