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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 8698335" data-attributes="member: 6795602">IMO, everyone implicitly agrees that a game must have some degree of balance - for example: no one wants there to only be CR 20 dragons in the world for the level 1 PC's to fight.  That's not balanced!Since this establishes some degree of balance is to be strived for, the real question is how balanced should the game be?  I'd say a game should be balanced around the characters having strengths and weaknesses and that it's easy to create encounters that challenge any given weakness while not making a PC feel targeted or totally useless for doing so.  As an example 5e does this really poorly for melee PC's (flying/ranged enemies) and allows casters to overcome their weaknesses far to easily (single level multiclass dip for martial AC and single feat to shore up most of their biggest weaknesses (constitution/concentration saves).</blockquote>