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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6075538" data-attributes="member: 6696971">I don't even understand this.  Any class can be fixed if you come up with extra-rule, intra-narrative conceits to justify binding them or boosting them.  That tells you nothing about the ruleset, itself.Druids aren't balanced because you decide the God of Nature has shut off the Wildshape, Summon Nature's Ally spicket (for any number of odd reasons) and all of the real world animals died to the plague so the druid can have no companion.  They just have their assemblage of ridiculously powerful other spells outside of Summons and those that use animals for reconnaissance/divination.Fighters aren't then balanced within the ruleset because your PC Fighter in your gameworld found a Delorian to take him back to the future and he returned as Batman with a Predator Drone, an anti-missile system, sat-nav, gps positioning/reconnaissance and how about an M1A2 Abrams Tank for good measure (I'm not sure an epic level wizard wouldn't still beat him, to be honest).Stripping a Ferrari of all of its power:ratio, suspension, grip advantages over a Volkswagon Golf and then watching them level out in a race tells you nothing about the relative disparity of the true vehicles on the track.  I'm not sure what this effort is intended to produce.</blockquote>