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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tyrlaan" data-source="post: 5199399" data-attributes="member: 20998">I disagree with this, based on personal experience. (Wait for it, this is also on topic)I've built out 5 full blown character classes. Probably a dozen paragon paths as well. And 8 brand new races. Oh, and a bevy of feats to go with all of that. I bring this up because:(a) I can never, as a sole human being, pump out the volume of material WotC does, nor can I provide a CB for my meager amount of material. Therefore, how can I plausibly expect my nifty class with only 4 power options per level to compete with a rogue, which has eleventy billion power options per level? Oh, and a bucket full of class specific AND race/class combo specific feats. Publishing 3PP like this is not being squelched by the GSL. It's being squelched by inability to compete at any appreciable level.(Discussion on whether this is a good or bad thing, and for who might be an interesting side topic - as well as if people think I'm full of garbage)(b) Clearly I've created houserules. More than is healthy, one might argue <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Now, if we delineate precisely which subset of the houserule universe folks are talking about, I may or may not agree with the stance of the OP/original blog post. However, I think all that's changed is what is easier to houserule and what is tougher to houserule. Making a brand new base class in 3e I considered easy, but a new PrC difficult. In 4e, I'd flip that - PPs are easy and base classes are difficult. I can probably draft up other examples, but hopefully I've communicated my point. I suppose we'll see <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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