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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sundragon2012" data-source="post: 2532373" data-attributes="member: 7624">I agree there 100%. I don't know if I would necessarily blame the edition of the game for this as a rules set but I would blame that on the way the game is presented. It seems to me that folks can't conceive of having unique individuals outside of their feats, skills and powers. In fact its common to see read, "Its not fair, your limiting the players by nerfing them if they don't have access to every goody they are supposed to." "My character's unique, look at the feats this one had compared to this one, blah, blah, blah." Of course that handled properly and in context, their is nothing wrong with cool powers and items. Defining a character's quality and uniqueness by those things is a problem.Funny, it used to be within the context of the "role playing" game that the character was defined and not merely by the powers shown on the stat sheet. My players had many unique and memorable characters without any special powers. Now some got special powers and cool items of course, but they were merely additions to a unique individual character and not defining. What the character did made him or her memorable, not their fancy sword or snazzy staff. I am all in favor of the increased freedom of character creation in 3.5e but realize at the same time that those things aren't what make a character memorable, it was the adventures, the personality, the drama, the imagination of their creator that made them real.My philosophy is this, if you want a game where its about constant, endlessly increasing power levels, endless cool new weapons and items and self-definition by those things, you are free to play Baldur's Gate, Planescape Torment, Demonstone, Everquest Online, etc. My games have steeper requirements in regards to what makes a player a unique hero than the junk they carry around.Chris</blockquote>

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