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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 5197432" data-attributes="member: 20741">Perhaps. And if the campaign was just running a bunch of home-brewed series of adventures, I would agree with you.But does your answer change if the GM wants to drop $250 bucks on Rise of the Runelords, with all its associated bells and whistles? And you, as a player, propose to use Book of Nine Swords, Tome of Magic, Spell Compendium and the Magic Item Compendium, while some other players then ask to play classes and races out of all of the Complete and Races of Series?Because I assure you, in those circumstances, what you propose to do will break the published adventures into a million pieces. Your uber-powered characters will blow through the Rise of the Runelords, as written. The published Adventure Path just breaks under the power creep.The only way that doesn't happen is if the GM wants to then put a lot of work into beefing up and redesigning the set-piece encounters across all six volumes of RotRL. (And then ncompensate for addtional XP earned in beefed up encounters, and so on and so forth, with a chain reaction of consequences across six volumes of adventures...)As it stands, there is already a LOT of work involved in running and creating other bridge and side material for use during the play of an Adventure Path.  Your proposal as a player greatly adds to the GM's burden of running that AP. So much so that I, as a GM, would just outright veto it.So the "my game too" argument, while true, doesn't really capture the practical problems that such desires really cause. It's not just a matter of "taste, touch and feel".It's not just a matter of fluff; it's stone cold crunch we're talking about here. You can't hand wave this stuff away; it matters.</blockquote>

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