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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 5028130" data-attributes="member: 18280">No, it is a statement of what balance IS.Gygaxian balance is process-oriented, not end-state oriented.  Outside of the process of the game, balance doesn't exist.  There is no end-state balance.  This is why "Game balance is really broader than the options allowed for on the poll."Gygaxian balance is based on his wargaming roots: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_balance" target="_blank">Game balance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a>If one reads Gygax's advice to players in the 1e PHB, or in KotB, or the similar advice found in modules like B1, it becomes clear that the players in any given milieu share a large burden in maintaining "game balance" both on the basis of the choices made in play, and in preparing for play (including both character generation/selection and equipment selection).  The DM is deliberately presenting an environment that attempts to trick the players into unbalanced play.  Superior players will not take the bait, or, better yet, will manage to discover ways to "defeat" the "unbalanced" encounters.This is, in Gygaxian terms, what "superior play" is.In Gygaxian terms, balance is what good play falls into....treading the narrow line between "too easy" and "too hard" on the basis not of the DM setting up the world to make this line all there is, but on the basis of the players being skilled and canny enough to recognize the line and walk it with care.RC</blockquote>

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