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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GrimCo" data-source="post: 9849321" data-attributes="member: 7044462">As someone who runs mostly R rated games, i give fair warning during my campaign pitch. Specially if i run Dark Sun or Ravenloft. I don't go into gory details, not my jam, but i do include various themes that are potentially uncomfortable for some people, so anyone who has problems, can nope out before session zero. I first started restricting classes and races during 3.x/PF1 day. 3.x has around 60 base classes and 800 prestige classes ( counting all sources with wotc logo). PF1 has around 50 classes, 120 prestige classes and 2000 archetypes. ( I googled numbers). Add to that 250 official playable races in 3.x and 100 in pf1, with another 100 templates in both. I won't even get into feats. Sheer quantity of player options is overwhelming. So eventually, most dm's i know and myself, started to limit number of sources allowed for picking character options.  To be on topicI like that 5e cut down on material bloatI disliked bloated number of character options in 3.x, most of which was subpar, niche and sometimes just pure superfluous crap.</blockquote>