There was a way to break out of the old jail. Fooser just didn't find it
A. It's stupid to break out everytime in one day, that's ridiculos the gaurds would eventually keep an eye on you 24-7 or chain you down. As the old saying goes "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me." They would eventually learn if they already haven't.
B. It is equally as stoopid to complain about bad guys breaking out. Everytime the good side doesn't win, it's complained about. Everytime the bad guys don't win, it's complained about.
As far as I can tell the only solution to this side bias is to remove skills and GM intervention. The problem with fighting is the good guys will always win. The good side has a seemingly infinte supply of fantastic fighters. They have the time and space to train in (although training has been a subject of my annoyance forever.) they have access to the best smiths, where bad guys don't. The problem with GM intervention is the bas side always wins. Everytime a GM intervenes the bad side wins or is extrainously overpowered. Either time the losing side complains.
Solution: Scrap them both. Fighting skills are annoying as hell. I don't have the time nor the willpower to sit and control click ogres for hours, also I find it extremely un-realistic to hit eachother with rusty daggers found in a cave full of undead beacuse they "Hurt less" same goes with hiting people with an uberaxe, hot off the anvil, just to test it out. So what am I to do except be forced to back down or uncharacteristically run away? What is anyone but the ultrastrong powergamed orcs or the ultrastrong powergamed gaurds to do in that situation?
Same goes with GM intervention, the players can never win in that situation. Never.
Both sides have their arguements and both are equally justified in their argueing, but since this debate has droned on for years the obvious solution is to look outside the realm of normality. Everytime these debates end in the same crappy solutions being proposed, and everytime they fail.
