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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RainOfSteel" data-source="post: 5538858" data-attributes="member: 24460"> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Class, Prestige Class, and Feat Splat: This is a system pet peeve.  I absolutely despise an endless procession of new classes, new prestige classes, and new feats.  This dislike arises form the almost inevitable way in which these new elements become more and more powerful than in the past, creating power creep.  This leads to players wanting to shift classes, or even characters, just to pick up the latest and greatest.  Most of them also become more and more exotic in order to look like a new idea, and so fitting even those that are of reasonable power into a campaign becomes a pain in the neck.  GMs generally cannot keep up with all of the new material, and so admitting constant new material generally means equally constant breaks in the game to stare at rulebooks and make rulings on abilities whose total playtesting time prior to release was probably ten minutes of conceptual thought and, if lucky, one or two hours of game play.  These elements are seriously disrupting to any long term campaign.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cthulhu: I am just tired of them in general.  I would almost certainly not use them in any milieu, at least not recognizably.  In some ways, the Obyrith, I feel, are strongly related in concept as near or completely alien beings of evil.  Just reading the codex entry on Dagon makes me think of the Cthulhu mythos.  I don't need the Cthulhu mythos on top of that.  The Far Realm goes with it.  If the actual Cthulhu mythos gods and monsters are going to be used, I want to see the milieu and it's cosmology be based on it, or have them appear in the standard wheel just like all the other mythologies.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Shadow: All elements of the shadow plane, but most especially the Forgotten Realms shadow weave and associated classes.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Dying Earth/Jack Vance Spell Memorization System: I have never liked it and never will.  At best I tolerate it.  Give me mana point-based systems any day.</li> </ul>Dragons and drow?  I'm still okay with those things, although I did run a campaign where all the dragons had been killed and the drow were all albinos (like most cave-dwellers), stood seven-feet tall, worshiped Hel instead of Lolth, and specialized in ice-magic (the group never ran into them).</blockquote>

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