Balance Playtesting


Pathfinder First Edition General Discussion


In recent discussions of the change to the Crane Wing feat, I made a suggestion that public balance playtesting should be done. The developers, unfortunately, do not have time to run these playtests.

However, I still think such playtesting is a good idea, and in fact should be done. But, we don't need the developers to actually run it; we can do it ourselves, as players and customers of Paizo.

So, I'm going to put my money where my big mouth is. I plan to start seeing if people will be interested in playing playtesting games for purposes of testing balance. I am hoping that other people on here will also be interested in it.

Of course, we need standardization. As much as even I hate to do it, it would be best to run these games at just Paizo books only, no houserules, and using 20 point buy. Also best to use a standard group size of four, though games with group sizes larger and smaller should also be run occasionally to see how the varying group sizes impact balance.

The idea behind this is to give the developers organized, easily-read playtesting data they can use to help balance the game fairly for everyone. This is not to detract from PFS data, but to add on to it to show how balance works outside the PFS environment.

I hope people will be willing to aid as both GMs and players.

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