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<blockquote data-quote="MrMyth" data-source="post: 5295122" data-attributes="member: 61155">I don't think 3rd Edition ever set in stone that the DM had to 'play by the rules' - but I know that, at least for me, the overall tone of the books very much drilled that into me. &nbsp;Oh, I certainly felt free to create - I know I ran one game that I made a new class for. (Though no one played it, so no idea how balanced it was.) And a handful of prestige classes and races. &nbsp;But actually making rulings on the fly, or breaking out of the standard design of existing rules? &nbsp;It wasn't until the tail-end of the edition that I finally realized that I didn't have to spend hours designing NPCs 'by the book', or using the terrible rules for advancing and templating monsters to customize them to the right CR. I always felt like if I didn't design perfectly by formula, I was no longer 'playing fair'. &nbsp;I don't know if that was the intention or not, but it was definitely the message that the books gave to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MrMyth, post: 5295122, member: 61155"] I don't think 3rd Edition ever set in stone that the DM had to 'play by the rules' - but I know that, at least [I]for me[/I], the overall tone of the books very much drilled that into me. Oh, I certainly felt free to create - I know I ran one game that I made a new class for. (Though no one played it, so no idea how balanced it was.) And a handful of prestige classes and races. But actually making rulings on the fly, or breaking out of the standard design of existing rules? It wasn't until the tail-end of the edition that I finally realized that I didn't have to spend [I]hours[/I] designing NPCs 'by the book', or using the terrible rules for advancing and templating monsters to customize them to the right CR. I always felt like if I didn't design perfectly by formula, I was no longer 'playing fair'. I don't know if that was the intention or not, but it was definitely the message that the books gave to me. [/QUOTE]

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