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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Minigiant" data-source="post: 5900168" data-attributes="member: 63508">I disagree. I think the issue is that WOTC doesn't know how everyone plays, cannot force players to play a certain way, and thus cannot ignore a part of the game.  Players, by default, want to be involved in the major aspects of the game. But  the part of the game that takes of the most time varies from group to  group. Some groups are heavy combat. Others are exploration and  interaction. Others are combat and interaction.  The designers don't know how you play. Nor should they conform to your  group as the model of play if they ever find out how you play. So they  have to balance ever character within ever pillar. So the group that  spends 2 hours fighting and 10 minutes talking has every character  involve. So the group that is 2 hours of social and exploration each has  every character involved. So the ⅓ each group has every character  involved. Unless they use pillars, they either have to force a certain  time of gameplay or suggest banlists for character types/classes that  can't fit in some campaigns.                    _Basically if you have three D&D groups with four PCs that play 3 hours a session:Group 1 is a hack and slash of 90% combat.Group 2 is a do a bank heist and is doing 2 hours Exploration and 3 hours InteractionGroups 3 is during a complete campaign with 1/3 of each pillar. Now if there is a character that brings no combat ability and someone in Group 1 tries to play it, you will be doing nothing much of the time. Or an All combat character in Group 2. Now if the player wanted to be ineffective, kudos to them. But if the game is designed where whole groups of characters can't play in common game type...or is incapable out being useful for long periods of time... well it's not good.</blockquote>

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