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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dyir" data-source="post: 1456198" data-attributes="member: 13293"><p>Any discussion of the Complete Book of Elves fills me with both wistfulness and guilty sorrow.  I got myself into AD&D2e: there was no one to teach me.  I discovered its existence shortly after reading the Lord of the Rings, and collected the Monster Manual, Dungeon Master's Guide, and Player's Handbook (in that order) as soon as I could.  I had never actually PLAYED this game yet, but I loved the possibilities it offered.  Sadly, the Complete Book of Elves was one of the next books I purchased.  I never realized its brokenness until many years later when I found ENWorld and had been playing D&D3e for a while.  Imagine my shame when I reread some of those rules and realized how horrible they where and knew that I had innocently allowed favored PCs to use them indiscriminately.  I had loved the bladesinger not for its rules (I barely understood what rules were at that point) but for the idea of a pseudo-paladin for elves.  Oh well, I'm older and wiser now, I suppose...and work hard to prevent stuff that broken from filtering into my game now  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /> .</p></blockquote><p></p>