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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7907237" data-attributes="member: 996">I'd hoped I was clear - sub-optimal or 'poor play' may be undesireable, but it's non-viable that's the flag for imbalanced. There is, the latter is just not relevant to whether a given choice is balanced.Other than that 550 of that page count is him spouting exposition, of course.Oh, and he's a 5th level MU ...hur, hur, never gets old......oh, wait, long white beard, nevermind... Critical Role? TBF, a lucky MU starting with the right spell contributed significantly in one encounter/day (and a 'day' could be a little over 4hrs, depending on how your DM read the rules - 'lucky' also heavily depended on that), by 3rd you likely got a spell that could be a bit of a game-changer used 'cleverly,' and by 5th you were fine... by 9th, watch out.  Sure, past name level the MU went totally insane with power, but, everyone also just stopped playing.  Those high-level MUs were likely mainly meant to be baddies.  Like the EHP. Balance at a point or balance on a razor's edge might be a better way of putting it than 'long term balance.'   Balance-of-imbalances also works, or rather, conveys how poorly it works. <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> … sure, like, well, rules for instance.The rules for the former might be "Say 'yes, and...'" and maybe 'stay in genre.'The rules for the latter:  :thunk!: "this is volumes I-XIII, there'll be a test, later"<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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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