Questions tagged [balance]

For questions about balance or perceived inequities between characters, classes, subclasses, spells, etc. that should be of roughly equivalent capability with one another.

For questions about balance or perceived inequities between characters, races, classes, subclasses, spells, etc. that should be of roughly equivalent capability with one another.

Can also extend to balance of challenges like traps or monsters compared to the player characters' capabilities, or of treasure and rewards compared to what would be approrpiate.

Note that this definition assumes that the game system aims to make all character options roughly equally viable or powerful. There however are games where this is not required or intended by design.

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Which systems can be considered balanced? How to predict a fair fight?

I am just wondering which pen and paper systems could be considered rather "balanced" and which are not. The game and rules I know best is The Dark Eye - unfortunately I would consider it quite unbalanced: Creating characters with a wide variety of…
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