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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5149093" data-attributes="member: 177">I'm going to guess that this is too simply stated to be accurate.If my player comes to me and says, "I want to play a fighter who can do some cool stuff with a longsword," I don't expect either of us will find it short of the ideal for me to give it to him or her.  If my player comes to me and says, "I want exactly these stat numbers, exactly this class and race and spells and feats, put together from these specific 7 different source books three of which you don't even own...." then we are more likely going to run into problems.Which is to say - getting what you want may or may not be a problem, depending on what it is you want.  More importantly - I'd hazard that it is entirely possible that the major issue there isn't getting what you want.  The issue is not understanding what will actually make you happy. There's an age-old stereotype of the guy in mid-life crisis:  he gets it in his head that something is missing from his life, and getting that something will fix everything.  That thing may be a sports car, a basement full of power tools, or a mistress 20 years his junior.  Whatever it is, ultimately, getting that thing doesn't actually make him happy, because lack of that thing isn't what made him unhappy in the first place.Now, by and large gamers aren't in the midst of mid-life crises, but the example is still demonstrative - getting exactly what you want is of no use whatsoever if what you want isn't actually the thing that will make you happy.</blockquote>

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