First - I am that DM. I've been DMing my game for close to 2 years. I've only had to work to balance the game exactly once: because one of my players picked a Ranger and intentionally went away from … (View Post)

4e was not well received, but this isnt because it was balanced. 4e lacked significant skill diversity (One of 3.5's greatest strengths), abandoned vancian spell casting rules, made significant tacti… (View Post)

@ThacoBell basically summed up my response, but I'll add a few things. First - in a single player game like FNV, I'm less interested in the balance of what works better. I'm sure that some builds are… (View Post)

Well, I dont have a great answer - but people do things they're good at/interested in. Why would someone spend 4 years at a university to learn applied mathematics when they could probably spend thos… (View Post)

I feel like you're just reconfirming their point each time you say this. If the answer is that the RP build needs to optimize itself because the game is hard, then the game is not forgiving for RP bu… (View Post)