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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scribble" data-source="post: 5200378" data-attributes="member: 23977">Maybe- I wonder which came first though... chicken or egg? Did they move to the player books because they were liked so much that players just wanted them as player resources?Don't know- I'm not privy to WoTCs info.The point being though that once it's out there- no matter what book it's in, it's out there and becomes a cool thing for someone to want to play with. (And why wouldn't they? It's cool!)It reminds me of Vampire when the Sabbat stuff came out.... suddenly eeeeeeeveryone wanted to be a Sabbat. <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" /> Just human nature I guess.Great.  I did.Guess we're even!   Yeah- I'm sure they will from time to time, exceptions to every rule and what not.  It seems though, that they've done a lot to cut down on the number of "optional unbalancing cool elements" in the game.(I'm also not sure how the hybrid rules work out... Are they unbalanced? Just potentially unbalanced? Or actualkly balanced? I don't own PHB3 so I haven't looked at them much yet.)And who knows- maybe they'll swing the pendulum back towards offering optional/unbalanced stuff. I cannot tell the future, and I don't set their business plans.All I can say is that they seemed to have changed focus away from those elements, and I have a thought on why. Feel free to disagree (as you obviously do) it will not hurt my feelings. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Why is it that people always jump to the "They don't force you to buy it" thing?Even if I don't own a book, chances are if the book has something a player thinks is neat that thing will make its way to my table via a player saying "Can I, can I?"I don't houserule that much- usually only to add something we think is fun.Anyway- my original point was really why I felt WoTC was doing much less of the optional unbalancing factors.  Sorry you seem to have lost an element you enjoyed.Happy gaming otherwise!</blockquote>

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