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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thanee" data-source="post: 3001331" data-attributes="member: 478">Yep, the biggest 'problem' is this ridiculous creature ability, of course.Actually, no. Playtesting is, unfortunately, not a strong method to test balance, unless it is specifically done in an environment, which has this purpose and no other, where classes and circumstances are specifically tailored to test certain factors. That, of course, would be the point of playtesting, but it rarely is done that way, because it's hard work and not much fun to do so. That doesn't mean playtesting isn't good. It certainly is. It's a decent method for spot tests.There are simply too many factors which skew the results, like personal preferances, commoness of certain classes (i.e. Psions aren't used in most campaigns, the results are therefore automatically skewed towards Clerics, Druids and Wizards, since they are in the Core rules), specific broken abilities/spells/powers/PrC/etc, which don't say anything about the classes that use them themselves, house rules, specific character choices, player experience, DM experience, playing styles, etc.That's why I don't think polls like this are very accurate.Also, Sorcerers are often voted very low in such polls, and there are plenty reasons for this. I don't believe it does them (or their power) justice, though. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It's still an interesting poll (or series of polls), which does give some insight into people's opinions about the classes, I suppose (link isn't working right now, but I will try again later), thanks! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />ByeThanee</blockquote>

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