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<blockquote data-quote="timbannock" data-source="post: 4591131" data-attributes="member: 17913">Agreed.&nbsp; Modular is good.I learned from the mistakes of 3E/D20/Glut.&nbsp; I realized that all the cool stuff that wasn't in the Core was either setting specific (i.e., I had to make it relevant for the Players to even glance at it), or probably didn't need to be there at all...I could just hand-wave the whole thing as long as I kept an eye on balance.In short, for 4E, because I DM 99% of the time, I'm just not buying splats and &quot;player-focused&quot; books.&nbsp; The Players can do that.&nbsp; I'm going to buy books that will help me as a DM (monster books, adventures) and make up whatever else I need.That said, if a Player says &quot;I wanna use this 3PP book!&quot; I'll definitely take a look at it, check out the reviews on the content in play, and then make a decision.&nbsp; I'm pretty freewheeling...I got backlash for saying &quot;No&quot; after I'd already said &quot;Yes&quot; once, and I quickly realized that for all the issues I had with the balance of the book (Exalted Deeds, a WOTC book, by the way), I was still the DM, and I could make up something that did the same amount of ludicrously unbalanced damage to the PCs <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="timbannock, post: 4591131, member: 17913"] Agreed. Modular is good. I learned from the mistakes of 3E/D20/Glut. I realized that all the cool stuff that wasn't in the Core was either setting specific (i.e., I had to make it relevant for the Players to even glance at it), or probably didn't need to be there at all...I could just hand-wave the whole thing as long as I kept an eye on balance. In short, for 4E, because I DM 99% of the time, I'm just not buying splats and "player-focused" books. The Players can do that. I'm going to buy books that will help me as a DM (monster books, adventures) and make up whatever else I need. That said, if a Player says "I wanna use this 3PP book!" I'll definitely take a look at it, check out the reviews on the content in play, and then make a decision. I'm pretty freewheeling...I got backlash for saying "No" after I'd already said "Yes" once, and I quickly realized that for all the issues I had with the balance of the book (Exalted Deeds, a WOTC book, by the way), I was still the DM, and I could make up something that did the same amount of ludicrously unbalanced damage to the PCs ;) [/QUOTE]

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