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<blockquote data-quote="aboyd" data-source="post: 4669695" data-attributes="member: 44797">The source to follow is the source you deem to be the one to follow.For example, the Rules Compendium came out at the end of the 3.5 run, and supposedly corrects/compiles all rules into one &quot;final say&quot; document.&nbsp; It should be the document that wins out over others.&nbsp; However, as DM I've stated that it simply doesn't exist in my game, so we must deal with the rules as-is in all the other books.So if you deem the DMG to be the final say, then it is.Having said that, my general practice is that of the books I allow the most recent ones win.&nbsp; So the Magic Item Compendium, which revises a lot of magic items from the Complete series of books, takes precedence over the Complete books themselves.In your case, Complete Warrior is more recent than the DMG, and so the rule refinements in CW might be better playtested, and therefore more viable.As for where to place a particular familiar on the range of available options, I'd mostly just place it along the CR axis.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aboyd, post: 4669695, member: 44797"] The source to follow is the source you deem to be the one to follow. For example, the Rules Compendium came out at the end of the 3.5 run, and supposedly corrects/compiles all rules into one "final say" document. It [i]should be[/i] the document that wins out over others. However, as DM I've stated that it simply doesn't exist in my game, so we must deal with the rules as-is in all the other books. So if you deem the DMG to be the final say, then it is. Having said that, my general practice is that [i]of the books I allow[/i] the most recent ones win. So the Magic Item Compendium, which revises a lot of magic items from the Complete series of books, takes precedence over the Complete books themselves. In your case, Complete Warrior is more recent than the DMG, and so the rule refinements in CW might be better playtested, and therefore more viable. As for where to place a particular familiar on the range of available options, I'd mostly just place it along the CR axis. [/QUOTE]

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