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Banned as in "completely absent; not present at all"?
Very little. Generally stuff that'd be bad on either side of the fence, if used. Wraithstrike as written, for example. If I do run into very problematic things like this I tend to adapt them rather than just flat-out refuse their inclusion.
Banned as in "not available for PC consumption"?
Quite a bit more.
On the "Not for PCs" model, on some things I strike a general balance. If something is unavailable for campaign reasons, when such time occurs that it starts to show up more prevelantly, it'll become available to persue. Example: in my current game psionics are not available as a PC option, not because I have any problem with the psionics rules, but because psionics are almost entirely the domain of Far (note the capital F) entities, and the world where the game is currently taking place has very little incursion of said beings. Now if later the game takes us off to another material plane where they're more common, PCs will have a chance to pick up psi stuff or, if someone dies, make their new character a fully psionic guy that's native to this other plane.
Under the "Not for PCs" model, some of the following things make the list:
-Races above LA +1; note, not ECL, just LA.
-Templates.
-Psionics.
-Incarnum.
-Martial Initiates (Bo9S). Non maneuver-related things are allowed though, like Superior Unarmed Strike.
-Anything related to the Underdark; drow, duergar, etc.
-Certain PrCs, particularly ones that do not play well with others by virtue of design. FB, etc.
Very little. Generally stuff that'd be bad on either side of the fence, if used. Wraithstrike as written, for example. If I do run into very problematic things like this I tend to adapt them rather than just flat-out refuse their inclusion.
Banned as in "not available for PC consumption"?
Quite a bit more.
On the "Not for PCs" model, on some things I strike a general balance. If something is unavailable for campaign reasons, when such time occurs that it starts to show up more prevelantly, it'll become available to persue. Example: in my current game psionics are not available as a PC option, not because I have any problem with the psionics rules, but because psionics are almost entirely the domain of Far (note the capital F) entities, and the world where the game is currently taking place has very little incursion of said beings. Now if later the game takes us off to another material plane where they're more common, PCs will have a chance to pick up psi stuff or, if someone dies, make their new character a fully psionic guy that's native to this other plane.
Under the "Not for PCs" model, some of the following things make the list:
-Races above LA +1; note, not ECL, just LA.
-Templates.
-Psionics.
-Incarnum.
-Martial Initiates (Bo9S). Non maneuver-related things are allowed though, like Superior Unarmed Strike.
-Anything related to the Underdark; drow, duergar, etc.
-Certain PrCs, particularly ones that do not play well with others by virtue of design. FB, etc.
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