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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 5967688" data-attributes="member: 78958">There's a lot of theoretical optimization creations that can blow your mind: a game save mechanic, nanobots "aiding another" en masse, the Jumplomancer, infinite loops of many kinds... but in my opinion none of these show that D&D 3.5 is "broken". D&D 3.x is an incredibly complex agglomeration of rules, all of which interact. It's any given group's responsibility to use some or all of the rules resources at their disposal, to allow or disallow certain combinations, to form gentlemen's agreements and so on. Note I said "rules resources": the available plethora of rules is a pool of resources you can draw on - you don't have to use all of them, but you can, which is awesome.In fact, some groups will consider broken what is fair game in others. Some hate überchargers or supermount builds, others love them. Some hate Archivists cherrypicking divine spells from obscure spell lists, others find it natural that Archivists would do so and actually expect it. Some take for granted that Sorcerers always have Wings of Cover, Celerity and Arcane Fusion on their spell lists, others shy away from the "I'm untouchable and now I'll just go nova on you" mentality. Some like groups comprised of a Sword-and-Board Fighter, a sneaksy Rogue, a healing-focused Cleric, and a blaster Wizard. Others like groups composed of two Druids, a Psion and an Artificer.How you play the game, and (as a consequence) what parts of the rules available you use is up to you. The sheer amount of rules available, however, makes sure that almost any kind of game format is supported in an almost endless continuum.Personally? I love it. It allows me to switch from a pretty high-powered, high-optimization game to a rather 'gritty' stone age scenario and still use the same rules frame.In my last campaign, the Barbarian had damage output well in the three-digit range before hitting level 10. The Conjurer blinked away from attacks and planar bound monsters cherrypicked for the occasion from five manuals and one folio. The Cleric charged up her buff spells and was untouchable while putting the hurt on in melee.In my current campaign, the Druid doesn't step on the Ranger's toes too much thanks to class variants, the Warlock feels good about Shatter at will in a pretty magic-less campaign world with little equipment and lots of humanoid enemies, and I'm having fun combing through tons of books for interesting but low-power, low-CR foes for my group to fight.</blockquote>

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