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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Horhay" data-source="post: 5398923" data-attributes="member: 100380">Wow, I'm really surprised to read all of the people who don't allow any splat books.  One of the many things that cause me to like 3.X over 4E is all of the customization of character that can be greatly benefited by splat books.  Yea, there's some stuff that's overpowered but to just blanket every book with a ban in your game is really stifling the enjoyment and originality that can be had in a campaign.  So what if a character is overpowered?  Make the encounters more difficult.  If one character lives while all the others die....maybe that will encourage them to put more work into their next character.  As a DM; find the weaknesses of the group and exploit them.  I both play and DM with a mixed group of average players and power gamers.  If one person is mowing down the enemy then that person is the one to get attacked (just stands to reason from the enemy standpoint); I generally build a big encounter to be able to kill off any one character, just to keep the players in check.  I know I wouldn't play with a DM who was so adamant about disallowing players to make non-standard characters.  And when I'm DMing and a players wants to make something unique (from a samurai to a frost giant to a psion) I try to work it through with them to make it happen in a reasonable way.  Games are about having fun, after all.   Anyway, enough of the soapbox.When it comes to really good splat books I prefer any that aid in creating unique and interesting characters.  Not in any order I really like:1. Complete Warrior2. Complete Adventurer3. Magic Item Compendium4. Players Handbook 25. Savage SpeciesThese books have allowed my friends and I to make some really interesting and fun characters to play and write back stories for.EDIT:  I search through these forums some times when I'm looking for ideas about a character or a campaign or whatever.  This is the first time I've posted because I just felt so strongly about the idea of disallowing splat books.  Just wanted to account for posting in an inactive thread and my total post count of 1.</blockquote>

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