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<blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 3612971" data-attributes="member: 15651"><p>Crazypixie got it - limit options. Nobody says you have to keep up with everything that has come out. If your players are interested in new options, let them do the leg work, you don't have to understand the nuts and bolts of it. If they can't understand it, and need to to help them, then they can't use it. If you can't trust your players to use the new options correctly, and feel you have to check up on them to ensure they are, then you have a different issue.</p><p></p><p>As for yourself, the opponent NPCs do not have to be outfitted with the latest feats, prestige classes and spells. The options can add flavor, but since most NPCs last only a very short time (a matter of rounds in some cases) and the players don't get to see all the cool abilities and powers they might have, it is a waste of your time and effort to labor over it. For most NPCs, keep it simple. Save the harder work for the BBEGs or NPCs who are likely to recur.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thornir Alekeg, post: 3612971, member: 15651"] Crazypixie got it - limit options. Nobody says you have to keep up with everything that has come out. If your players are interested in new options, let them do the leg work, you don't have to understand the nuts and bolts of it. If they can't understand it, and need to to help them, then they can't use it. If you can't trust your players to use the new options correctly, and feel you have to check up on them to ensure they are, then you have a different issue. As for yourself, the opponent NPCs do not have to be outfitted with the latest feats, prestige classes and spells. The options can add flavor, but since most NPCs last only a very short time (a matter of rounds in some cases) and the players don't get to see all the cool abilities and powers they might have, it is a waste of your time and effort to labor over it. For most NPCs, keep it simple. Save the harder work for the BBEGs or NPCs who are likely to recur. [/QUOTE]
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