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[Ari Marmell's blog] To House Rule or Not to House Rule
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<blockquote data-quote="mach1.9pants" data-source="post: 5197093" data-attributes="member: 55946"><p>I am not discussing balancing I am discussing house rules. You can house rule for anything not just balance. Your original question was '<em>At what point does allowing an "expansion" book or "official accessory" into your campaign become a "house rule"</em>' and I answered it badly. EDIT: my answer was not specific enough, sorry.</p><p></p><p>IMO if it is an official and core product, not allowing it is a house rule (3E = 3 core books; 4E = a lot more books!). If it is an official yet not core book, then letting it in your campaign is optional, and therefore either letting it in or not is a house rule. </p><p></p><p><em>"So now, to PRESERVE balance in 4E (which was the point of NOT "house ruling" in Ari's original article) we need to "House Rule" to NOT allow an accessory product? " </em>yes that is correct, if you are disallowing a CORE product that is a house rule, whether it is balanced or not. In the first go at skill challenges WotC got it totally wrong, the math was the worst I have seen in a pro RPG product in the last dozen years! However it was in the DMG and if you changed the numbers you are house ruling, balance does not come into it.</p><p></p><p>I am in no way saying that you have to stick to what ever is published but as soon as you start banning or modifying CORE (and the definition of core is the creators/publishers/etc) then you are house ruling, IMO.</p><p></p><p>Does that make better sense? In 3E letting in Bof9S classes is a house rule, it is not CORE. In 4E banning the PHB2 classes is a house rule (4E PHB2 is a CORE product). However IMO in 4E using the 'no magic items' optional rule in the DMG2 is a house rule because it is presented as an optional rule not the standard.</p><p></p><p>Apologies if I thought you didn't get my point, I thought you were saying that I thought the 3E splat books etc were CORE, which they are not. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mach1.9pants, post: 5197093, member: 55946"] I am not discussing balancing I am discussing house rules. You can house rule for anything not just balance. Your original question was '[I]At what point does allowing an "expansion" book or "official accessory" into your campaign become a "house rule"[/I]' and I answered it badly. EDIT: my answer was not specific enough, sorry. IMO if it is an official and core product, not allowing it is a house rule (3E = 3 core books; 4E = a lot more books!). If it is an official yet not core book, then letting it in your campaign is optional, and therefore either letting it in or not is a house rule. [I]"So now, to PRESERVE balance in 4E (which was the point of NOT "house ruling" in Ari's original article) we need to "House Rule" to NOT allow an accessory product? " [/I]yes that is correct, if you are disallowing a CORE product that is a house rule, whether it is balanced or not. In the first go at skill challenges WotC got it totally wrong, the math was the worst I have seen in a pro RPG product in the last dozen years! However it was in the DMG and if you changed the numbers you are house ruling, balance does not come into it. I am in no way saying that you have to stick to what ever is published but as soon as you start banning or modifying CORE (and the definition of core is the creators/publishers/etc) then you are house ruling, IMO. Does that make better sense? In 3E letting in Bof9S classes is a house rule, it is not CORE. In 4E banning the PHB2 classes is a house rule (4E PHB2 is a CORE product). However IMO in 4E using the 'no magic items' optional rule in the DMG2 is a house rule because it is presented as an optional rule not the standard. Apologies if I thought you didn't get my point, I thought you were saying that I thought the 3E splat books etc were CORE, which they are not. :) [/QUOTE]
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