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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gfunk" data-source="post: 383851" data-attributes="member: 1813">Elric,I have to agree with you to a certain extent.  In the campaign where I was DM, we played Greyhawk setting and all splatbooks were fair game (though they had to be approved by me of course).  The key issue here is this:I'm a working professional and I have neither the time nor inclination to prepare adventures from scratch for my players.  Therefore I exclusively used published modules, in which NPCs and monsters are rarely min-maxed and never to the extend of the PCs.In an old campaign, we used all the splatbooks and the FRCS (what were we thinking!).  The campaign soon became unplayable b/c of all the freaking buff spells.  I mean how on God's green earth do you stop a high-level sorcerer with Ghostform, Improved Invisibility, Non-Detection, Polymorph Self, and Blindsight going?The bottom line is, if you want to include everything you'll have to make a concerted effort as DM to extensively modify existing modules to challenge your PCs.  Unfortunately, this will take a lot of book keeping and the actual combats will become tedious as all of you NPCs become polymorphed into Hags and Giants.  I'm pretty good at math but it's a frickin' nightmare to keep track of so many buffs on the monsters and it really slows down game time.In our campaign the players and myself agreed to house rule a few things which have made gameplay more challenging and fun for all.  The following spells/items are banned:All Polymorph spellsGhostformSimulacrumDust of DisappearanceThe *entire* rules contents of the FRCS and MaoFThe following have been modified:Ability buff spells (BS, Endurance, CG, etc.) can only be metamagicked once</blockquote>

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