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<blockquote data-quote="Tequila Sunrise" data-source="post: 5849297" data-attributes="member: 40398">The only time restrictions caused a problem was when I ran a core-only&nbsp; 3.5 game for a group of new players. They wanted to home brew and use&nbsp; splat material, and they continually moaned about it. In retrospect,&nbsp; core-only was a bad idea and I haven't done it since. Smart creative&nbsp; players don't need to be coddled.Otherwise, players are okay with a restriction here or there IME. Just don't play the DM card too often, as Mouseferatu says.Yeah different editions tend to create different tolerances for&nbsp; restrictions. I think DMs can get away with &quot;because I said so&quot;&nbsp; restrictions more easily in 3.x and earlier because balance is all over&nbsp; the place, and there's such a wide variety of mechanics. (Seriously, how&nbsp; many methods are there to &quot;I do magic stuff&quot; in 3.x?)Whereas in 4e, DMs and players tend to have more confidence in game&nbsp; balance so thematic restrictions happen much more often than &quot;because I&nbsp; said so.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tequila Sunrise, post: 5849297, member: 40398"] The only time restrictions caused a problem was when I ran a core-only 3.5 game for a group of new players. They wanted to home brew and use splat material, and they continually moaned about it. In retrospect, core-only was a bad idea and I haven't done it since. Smart creative players don't need to be coddled. Otherwise, players are okay with a restriction here or there IME. Just don't play the DM card too often, as Mouseferatu says. Yeah different editions tend to create different tolerances for restrictions. I think DMs can get away with "because I said so" restrictions more easily in 3.x and earlier because balance is all over the place, and there's such a wide variety of mechanics. (Seriously, how many methods are there to "I do magic stuff" in 3.x?) Whereas in 4e, DMs and players tend to have more confidence in game balance so thematic restrictions happen much more often than "because I said so." [/QUOTE]

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