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<blockquote data-quote="frankthedm" data-source="post: 3985855" data-attributes="member: 1164"><p>All I <u>care</u> about are the monster books.</p><p></p><p>I <u>expect</u> to see all those. And I expect there to be lots of power creep in them. I am not saying third party publishers try and make broken splat, I am confident they usually TRY to make their stuff reasonably balanced. The problem is they have is they have to make their material seem interesting and comparable in power to core rules material, but they don’t always have the research and number running that went into make the core rules decisions. A feat that seemed reasonable to a third party publisher might look a lot less balanced by someone who saw how the numbers work in the long run. And this works both ways, just look how weak some Wotc epic feats are now viewed. Making splat book options weak-sauce dooms the book as well, so it puts the third party publisher in a dire straight.</p><p></p><p>Weak=No one buys</p><p>Solid = Hard to balance properly</p><p>Overpowered = DMs disallow</p><p></p><p>Now there may be some underhanded companies that intentionally make overpowered options knowing no DM will allow the book into their game, but hopefully it won’t be as bad as some 3.0 offenders. Like the company with the advertismment that read;</p><p></p><p><strong>“Does your archer get three attacks at second level? Ours does.”</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="frankthedm, post: 3985855, member: 1164"] All I [U]care[/U] about are the monster books. I [U]expect[/U] to see all those. And I expect there to be lots of power creep in them. I am not saying third party publishers try and make broken splat, I am confident they usually TRY to make their stuff reasonably balanced. The problem is they have is they have to make their material seem interesting and comparable in power to core rules material, but they don’t always have the research and number running that went into make the core rules decisions. A feat that seemed reasonable to a third party publisher might look a lot less balanced by someone who saw how the numbers work in the long run. And this works both ways, just look how weak some Wotc epic feats are now viewed. Making splat book options weak-sauce dooms the book as well, so it puts the third party publisher in a dire straight. Weak=No one buys Solid = Hard to balance properly Overpowered = DMs disallow Now there may be some underhanded companies that intentionally make overpowered options knowing no DM will allow the book into their game, but hopefully it won’t be as bad as some 3.0 offenders. Like the company with the advertismment that read; [B]“Does your archer get three attacks at second level? Ours does.”[/B] [/QUOTE]
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