As a DM, how open are you to allowing in or using d20 material?

[Garmorn]

I'll look at anything. I'm a fairly easy-going GM anyway, and can adapt on the fly. Most of the time, I'm more concerned with flavour in my games anyway.

This is close to my approach. But I have set limits on which books purely for financial reasons. Because we are spread out and different optional rules change things we are limiting which books are allowed until the players libraries are as complete as each one desires. Then we will slowly expand from there.

 

[hong]

I don't think anyone else in the group has any third-party d20 stuff to speak of, so the question is moot.

 

[Emirikol]

I've got a summary of the stuff we use for our four campaign rulebooks (midieval, norse, oriental, african) in our files:

http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/d20conan

Enjoy!

jh

 

[Sanackranib]

I am all for breaking out of the cookie cutter character mold mentality.

 

[Zappo]

I let players use any WotC stuff by default, unless I feel I have to veto it. WotC stuff is scrutinized by a much larger volume of fans, so if something is unbalanced, stupid, or otherwise "bad" I know it long before even buying the book.

We haven't bought non-WotC stuff up to now, not because I think it's bad, but simply because the core manuals and splatbooks are more than enough to keep us adventuring for decades. If we bought d20 manuals, I wouldn't let them use anything by default; I'd want to check it first.

 

[Nightfall]

I will say few if anything from FFE (not FFG!) doesn't get the stamp of approval from me. That's about the only publisher I'm VERY prejudiced against.

 

[Olive]

I'll use anything pretty much, but I mostly use WotC stuff. The main thing is that my players don't buy DnD books, so it becomes a little irrevevant.

 

[Desdichado]

I use more "d20" stuff than anyone else in my group when I run stuff. However, I'm not doing it just to open up options, per se. I'm mostly doing it because I want completely different magic systems, or whatever, so I have to use a lot of house rules relative to the Core books.

 

[Thanee]

Liberal - open to d20. In until it proves to be a problem, and NPCs will use it also.

Sorry, can't place a vote because of my weird cookie problem!

Bye
Thanee

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

Liberal - open to d20. In until it proves to be a problem, and NPCs will use it also.

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Me too. I'd probably be even MORE liberal if I had software where I could easily program in rules from all the non-core d20 stuff I buy. Character/NPC/Monster creation can really be an excercise for a DM who needs to consult multiple books, and remember where that one feat or spell was etc...