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adventures'/><category term='vacation'/><category term='delving deeper'/><category term='valentine'/><category term='Crusader'/><category term='clones'/><category term='communication'/><category term='mapping'/><category term='critical hits'/><category term='weekend'/><category term='collecting'/><category term='Star Trek Online'/><category term='morning musings'/><category term='mazes and monsters'/><category term='zombie apocalypse'/><category term='thac0'/><category term='crypts and things'/><category term='red headed step children'/><category term='free apps'/><category term='felt thoughts'/><category term='super bowl'/><category term='rapture'/><category term='overlooked blogs collection'/><category term='everything is dolphins'/><category term='Brewing'/><category term='Haiti'/><category term='creative mountain games'/><category term='fiction'/><category term='Gamma World'/><title type='text'>Comments on Tenkar's Tavern: Balance versus Niche Protection</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.tenkarstavern.com/feeds/3066712758304709811/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/457309359800117925/3066712758304709811/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.tenkarstavern.com/2012/01/balance-versus-niche-protection.html'/><author><name>Erik Tenkar</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113341752897675495824</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gnUI7wUFb10/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/k23PksEkXIk/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-457309359800117925.post-6138472280252333128</id><published>2012-01-25T14:10:07.641-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T14:10:07.641-05:00</updated><title type='text'>They only balance I ever worried about was a balan...</title><summary type='text'>They only balance I ever worried about was a balanced group when generating a character. i.e. did we have what we needed to survive?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If there already were three Thieves and a M-U, I&amp;#39;d try to build a fighter. And somebody &lt;b&gt;has&lt;/b&gt; to play the Cleric! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just trying to make it so the party didn&amp;#39;t have any gaping flaws. That is what balance means to me.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/457309359800117925/3066712758304709811/comments/default/6138472280252333128'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/457309359800117925/3066712758304709811/comments/default/6138472280252333128'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.tenkarstavern.com/2012/01/balance-versus-niche-protection.html?showComment=1327518607641#c6138472280252333128' title=''/><author><name>123</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17547073119195163253</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_jWFd2NKf58/TwYBw0yQP3I/AAAAAAAAADw/zngFCqh5v8w/s220/DieGoblin.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.tenkarstavern.com/2012/01/balance-versus-niche-protection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-457309359800117925.post-3066712758304709811' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/457309359800117925/posts/default/3066712758304709811' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-2015665150'/></entry></feed>
