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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dragonbait" data-source="post: 5314771" data-attributes="member: 29182">I started playing D&D during the 2ed era, and looking back I'd have to say that things were horribly balanced as time went on. My last 2ed campaign utilized all the Player Option's books, along with the Planescape and all the race and class guides. We all assumed that if it was published by TSR, it should work with a D&D game without problems. I had the group encounter a great wyrm green dragon with maximum hit points. The aasimar swordswoman with grand mastery and whatever other powers her dual katanas had tacked on killed the dragon in a single round (I'm throwing out fake names. It's been something like 15 years so I can not recall the actual rules the character used).That was when I realized that some books, powers, and such did not always work smoothly with all other books. I learned about power creep and game inbalance that day. I started seeing it a lot as we used more books, like the Complete Psion, Ninja's handbook and the like. As for the uclass imbalance, I only recall that most monsters were no longer a challenge by the time PCs reached level 10 to 12. Only one player complained about how weak his character was after about 9th level, and he was playing a 2ed bard. So in my personal experience, class imbalance was not an issue.</blockquote>