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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7886310" data-attributes="member: 996">OK, then.&nbsp; I'd be surprised to see anyone make such a comparison without it being called both subjective and apples &amp; oranges, though. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp;A highly defensible position.&nbsp; It'd be pretty easy to argue that 3e, the only version of the game intentionally designed to reward system mastery, is the most-broken version of D&amp;D, period.&nbsp; For that matter, few TTRPGs of any sort could challenge it for sheer brokenness.&nbsp; RIFTS, for instance, would be a strong contender.Only if we pointedly ignore that 5e was not developed from 3.5, alone, but incorporated other, significantly less-broken editions, as well.&nbsp; It's much less impressive in terms of less-brokeness as a compromise among the 5 or 6 or 8 (depending on how you count 'em) prior editions, than as an heir of 3.5 alone.Compare to PF1, for instance, which was a direct upgrade of 3.5</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7886310, member: 996"] OK, then. I'd be surprised to see anyone make such a comparison without it being called both subjective and apples & oranges, though. ;) A highly defensible position. It'd be pretty easy to argue that 3e, the only version of the game [I]intentionally[/I] designed to reward system mastery, is the most-broken version of D&D, period. For that matter, few TTRPGs of any sort could challenge it for sheer brokenness. RIFTS, for instance, would be a strong contender. Only if we pointedly ignore that 5e was not developed from 3.5, alone, but incorporated other, significantly less-broken editions, as well. It's much less impressive in terms of less-brokeness as a compromise among the 5 or 6 or 8 (depending on how you count 'em) prior editions, than as an heir of 3.5 alone. Compare to PF1, for instance, which was a direct upgrade of 3.5 [/QUOTE]

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