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<blockquote data-quote="shoak1" data-source="post: 7168549" data-attributes="member: 54380">There is definitely a lais·sez-faire-rules/balance-attitude among many Big DM, and to a lesser extent Big Story practitioners, that rankles DM Lights like myself.&nbsp; The idea that the Big DM wand heals all balance/rules issues might be fine to Big DM guys, but to those of us that actively seek to limit DM intervention in the game and its rules, it is an outrageous proposition.&nbsp; What rankles me the most though is that these same lais·sez-faire-rules/balance-attitude people are among the most strident opponents to the idea of official modifications to the rules or additional material in modules to fix balance and rules issues.&nbsp; This seems like such an easy point of compromise for Big DM peeps - just stop fighting a battle that has so little at stake for you......It seems like every post by every guy complaining about balance is slammed by a barrage of &quot;just have the DM fix it this way,&quot; &quot;balance is subjective and therefore irrelevant at the game scale, its only relevant at the individual table level,&quot; and &quot;ugh!&nbsp; why are you so worried about something as stupid as balance?&nbsp; just have fun!&quot; posts.&nbsp; If its of little import for YOU what rules/balance the game has, why fight OUR attempts at it?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="shoak1, post: 7168549, member: 54380"] There is definitely a lais·sez-faire-rules/balance-attitude among many Big DM, and to a lesser extent Big Story practitioners, that rankles DM Lights like myself. The idea that the Big DM wand heals all balance/rules issues might be fine to Big DM guys, but to those of us that actively seek to limit DM intervention in the game and its rules, it is an outrageous proposition. What rankles me the most though is that these same lais·sez-faire-rules/balance-attitude people are among the most strident opponents to the idea of official modifications to the rules or additional material in modules to fix balance and rules issues. This seems like such an easy point of compromise for Big DM peeps - just stop fighting a battle that has so little at stake for you...... It seems like every post by every guy complaining about balance is slammed by a barrage of "[I]just have the DM fix it this way[/I]," "[I]balance is subjective and therefore irrelevant at the game scale, its only relevant at the individual table level,[/I]" and "[I]ugh! why are you so worried about something as stupid as balance? just have fun![/I]" posts. If its of little import for YOU what rules/balance the game has, why fight OUR attempts at it? [/QUOTE]

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