Proposal: Disallow sources not listed in the DDI Compendium

Son of Meepo · Aug 20, 2012

Custom items should probably be put into their own wiki page and added to the approved sources list.

Luinnar · Aug 20, 2012

renau1g said:
Where does DM-provided items fall?

i.e. Sharpe's Dragon, isn't in the compendium as an item.

I'm fairly certain the only item that anyone's ever selected was the Talon Amulet, which had some moderately useful abilities.

Sharpe's Dragon is a reskinned Veserab, a Forgotten Realms monster that has the mount keyword. So it is not a custom creature or item, just something that does not have a cost like other mounts.

Luinnar · Aug 20, 2012

I don't believe we allow custom DM items outside of their adventure without a proposal, besides custom boons.

Unless I am mistaken.

covaithe · Aug 20, 2012

As a player without DDI access, I mostly do my item shopping these days via an old copy of the offline character builder. Are there sources that are in my old CB that would be disallowed by this proposal? Is it possible to create a list of such sources? I would be mildly annoyed if I bought something that turned out not to be legal and didn't know it.

On the other hand, by far the most demanding job in this community, with the possible exception of DMing, is character reviews. Anything that makes character review easier, I'm in favor of, even if it inconveniences players a bit.

Son of Meepo · Aug 20, 2012

I use the offline character builder to, so I know what you mean. That's why an up to date wiki page with allowed sources would be necessary.

renau1g · Aug 22, 2012

It would be anything RPGA in the old CB as none of it was "approved" by WotC.

Here's the Official announcement

W]Wizards

Personally, I'm fine with it.