zanshin
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So don't try then? As moving towards balance is impossible, no attempts to do so have any point. Is that your thesis?Well, ”impossible” is hard to define. I mean you can mechanically balance one axis, Combat, under certain conditions. You change those conditions, or reduce the amount of combat, there goes your balance down the toilet. So, if a Newbie GM, can, without realising it, completely destroy your perfect mathematical balance, and an experienced GM can do it with trivial ease, it does kind of call into question the point of the entire exercise.
Also, I don’t know about you, but the RPG doesn’t exist (at least that I have read) that doesn’t have a mechanic somewhere that, either by itself, in certain situations, or due to emergent complexity and combinations, is OP. So theoretically possible, but practically impossible.