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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 9877094" data-attributes="member: 27957">My memory of 3.5e is that the quality control was pretty uneven. Each new supplement was packed full of player options. Of those, some would be alright, a lot would be garbage, and two or three per book would be overpowered.This meant things were fairly balanced with a limited list of allowed books. But in a campaign with unlimited book access, you could cherry pick only the best options from every book and build a character entirely out of the overpowered ones. That was how you made a PC that completely broke the power curve.So no, it wasn't that the average option in a later book was stronger in itself. The power creep came from being allowed to assemble only the strongest options from all of them at once in a busted combination.</blockquote>