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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9386512" data-attributes="member: 6790260">The two main problems with your comparison to 3.x are:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">3.X had dozens of classes, hundreds of PrCs and ACFs and substitution levels, thousands of feats and spells, etc. 5e has thirteen classes and something like 105 feats--being generous. That degree of disparity is...well, literally orders of magnitude. Even when you factor in 5e's subclasses (which are pretty shallow things, unfortunately), it just isn't anywhere near enough.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The culture of play for 3.X was much, much more open to homebrew and 3PP than the culture of play for 5e has ever been. Use of 3PP was pretty common, albeit not quite universal. These days, 3PP is greeted with a huge amount of hostility from many, many DMs. I've no idea if it's universal or not, but it's so widespread in my experience, there's little reason to even ask for 3PP content--I've been lucky to get a polite but firm "no."</li> </ol>Compared to (non-S&P) 2e, sure, 5e is more customization-rich. But that's like saying the Dead Sea is wetter than Death Valley. It is true! But it's "water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink."</blockquote>