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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Varianor Abroad" data-source="post: 4725681" data-attributes="member: 12425">An interesting point, and one that seems true anecdotally. A fun game may not need balance. However, a game that focuses heavily on mechanics probably needs more balance, aka management of expectations. It's reasonable to expect that you can do some things well, some things not so well, and a few poorly. When those things you do well overlap or cross over with another character's abilities, it's reasonable for a player to expect that neither one of you is much better or worse. It's best if you have different capacities in fact. However, if you're both level X, with a reasonable expectation of having +Y to your key abilitiy, talk of balance rears its ugly head when the guy across the table has +10 more than you to his +Y.</blockquote>