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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6665887" data-attributes="member: 42582">I also quoted you asserting that no one talked about system balance until MMOs.The passages I referred to predate MMOs by a decade or more. And during 1994, some of us remember those passages and still talked about game balance. So your claim about what was and wasn't current during the mid-life of 2nd ed AD&amp;D is also mistaken. Perhaps you and your friends didn't talk about game and system balance. That's an interesting biographical fact about you and them, but nothing more.I take it that you are claiming that something which had occurred to people, and that they cared about, in 1978 and 1984, and likewise in 1998 and 2004, is something that they ceased to think or care about in 1988 and 1994. Not only is that not true to my own experience living through those years, but it seems inherently pretty implausible, given that many of the participants in those earlier and later conversations were also part of the RPG community during the 2nd ed AD&amp;D era.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6665887, member: 42582"] I also quoted you asserting that no one talked about system [I]balance[/I] until MMOs. The passages I referred to predate MMOs by a decade or more. And during 1994, some of us remember those passages and still talked about game balance. So your claim about what was and wasn't current during the mid-life of 2nd ed AD&D is also mistaken. Perhaps [I]you and your friends[/I] didn't talk about game and system balance. That's an interesting biographical fact about you and them, but nothing more. I take it that you are claiming that something which had occurred to people, and that they cared about, in 1978 and 1984, and likewise in 1998 and 2004, is something that they ceased to think or care about in 1988 and 1994. Not only is that not true to my own experience living through those years, but it seems inherently pretty implausible, given that many of the participants in those earlier and later conversations were also part of the RPG community during the 2nd ed AD&D era. [/QUOTE]

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