re: Anyone here ever play Dungeons and Dragons? (DnD)

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The balance in 3.5 was also pretty shitty. The game run such a gamut from useless to totally OP that it made it hard to have a balanced experience unless everyone in the group decided on a tier of character and picked accordingly.


Only if you made a character with ambidexterty, two weapon fighting, improved critical and had two vorpal, keen scimitars. If you take the Weapon Master prestige class it increases it even more making basically half your rolls a crit. You could just about one shot anything that could die from being beheaded.

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Yeah... I think that's what I meant about it just got so huge and they kept adding more and more stuff to it that it became really unbalanced.

Of course, then they overdid the systems (using the "roles" mechanic with 4E) in trying to be totally and completely balanced. Then everything started to really lack unique flavor and it felt a little bland (everyone has an attack that looks like X, everyone has a healing feat that looks like Y, everyone has a ranged attack that looks like Z, etc..). Basically everything was the same just with different flavor texts and slight tweaks.