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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6049797" data-attributes="member: 22779">For one, I find it very, very disturbing that you can quote BryonD's sig from memory.&nbsp; That just scares me.&nbsp; But, besides that, you are mistaken on a number of points.&nbsp; For one, virtually every encounter you have ever designed for an RPG has been balanced.&nbsp; Granted, the balance might favor the bad guys, but, you knew that beforehand.&nbsp; Why did you know?&nbsp; Because the transparency of the system allows you to judge, with a pretty high degree of accuracy, how a given encounter will fall out.&nbsp; And, lastly, no game is ever &quot;truly open-ended&quot;.&nbsp; Your characters are limited by the reality in the game world - unless you allow your PC's to spontaneously fly with no explanation - and by the mechanics of the system&nbsp; - you don't allow your PC's to shoot the bad guys in the eye and instantly kill them, do you?&nbsp; The idea that you have no idea how an encounter will resolve before that encounter is played out is something I have great difficulty believing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 6049797, member: 22779"] For one, I find it very, very disturbing that you can quote BryonD's sig from memory. That just scares me. But, besides that, you are mistaken on a number of points. For one, virtually every encounter you have ever designed for an RPG has been balanced. Granted, the balance might favor the bad guys, but, you knew that beforehand. Why did you know? Because the transparency of the system allows you to judge, with a pretty high degree of accuracy, how a given encounter will fall out. And, lastly, no game is ever "truly open-ended". Your characters are limited by the reality in the game world - unless you allow your PC's to spontaneously fly with no explanation - and by the mechanics of the system - you don't allow your PC's to shoot the bad guys in the eye and instantly kill them, do you? The idea that you have no idea how an encounter will resolve before that encounter is played out is something I have great difficulty believing. [/QUOTE]

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