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<blockquote data-quote="kenada" data-source="post: 8107983" data-attributes="member: 70468">I’m a really big fan of having tools that work, so I like the way PF2 approaches balance. However, people say they want balance, but do they actually want balance? When the game is balanced properly, you can’t build your way past a hard fight. You have to actually fight it, and hard fights are hard. Look at all the problems that people are having because of that. It’s not as bad if you’re building encounters with that in mind, but Paizo is designing them assuming people love a hard skirmish game.The solution isn’t to back off from the balance. There’s a place in the market for a game that is actually balanced, but PF2 went too far. Proficiency Without Level should have been the default. When you use Proficiency Without Level, the range of viable monsters increases considerably (~90% of the bestiary in the traditional sweet spot). Harder fights require big crowds of monsters or significantly higher level ones. That just feels intuitive, especially if you’re used to a system where a 9th level party could conceivably take on a balor.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kenada, post: 8107983, member: 70468"] I’m a really big fan of having tools that work, so I like the way PF2 approaches balance. However, people say they want balance, but do they [I]actually[/I] want balance? When the game is balanced properly, you can’t build your way past a hard fight. You have to actually fight it, and hard fights are hard. Look at all the problems that people are having because of that. It’s not [I]as bad[/I] if you’re building encounters with that in mind, but Paizo is designing them assuming people love a hard skirmish game. The solution isn’t to back off from the balance. There’s a place in the market for a game that is actually balanced, but PF2 went too far. Proficiency Without Level should have been the default. When you use Proficiency Without Level, the range of viable monsters increases considerably (~90% of the bestiary in the traditional sweet spot). Harder fights require big crowds of monsters or significantly higher level ones. That just feels intuitive, especially if you’re used to a system where a 9th level party could conceivably take on a balor. [/QUOTE]

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