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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1390108" data-attributes="member: 10201"><p>I don't see that. First of all, WotC supplements haven't, historically, been perfectly balanced--i've heard as many or more complaints about their splatbooks than about, say, Mongoose's, WRT balance issues.  Second, a fair number of the variants in Unearthed Arcana are explicitly unbalanced (they say so), and a few more are less balanced than they claim.  You can't tell me that using gestalt classes, vitality/wounds, recharge magic, and armor as DR wouldn't change the balance of the game significantly. So i don't see how using these versions is gonna improve balance--if a game writer was getting things balanced before, she doesn't need these, and may have to alter them significantly if she's trying to create a game that balances at the same points as D&D3[.5]E; and if a game writer wasn't doing a good job of balance before, using these variants instead of creating her own is far from a guarantee of good balance.</p></blockquote><p></p>