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What's the deal with balance?

GhanBuriGhan

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Balance in a SP RPG should not mean that all classes have the same difficulty. It's perfectly fine to have certain classes or character builds being more difficult.

However balance is still necessary in that every class has to be playable with reasonable difficulty (e.g. not run into unsurmountable obstacles halfway trhough) and provide a memorable experience. So the world and the characters have to be balanced acrosse the board, not the possible character builds against each other.
 

bryce777

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There is more than balance to worry about. There is coherence. The way tech worked made no real sense, and most all of it was totally useless.

If you make stuff totally useless, 99% of people won't bother with it.
 
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