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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6931431" data-attributes="member: 12731">You can relax - your interpretation is wrong <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The simplest and cleanest way is to lay out the allowed character sources already before the campaign starts. Such as &quot;only PHB build options please&quot; for example.First off, I would probably allow a hypothetical 3PP race or background, since they're unlikely to break anything. Classes, subclasses, spells and class features (where the real meat of a character lies) not so much. What I could possibly do is to consider mixing one class with the subclass of another class.Now, my players generally don't frequent the forums, and don't buy from DMs Guild. So thankfully I'm getting few such &quot;conversations&quot;. That might change, though. For each new campaign (and the next time would be the fourth time, I guess, we sat down to create a 5E party) the desire to use more material than PHB grows.Hopefully WotC will deliver by then. Otherwise that might make players look elsewhere.The current official build offerings I'd rate as follows:- races: good (there are lots of races; they're easy to make and to allow)- classes: the 5E PHB was actually outright generous. By next time, I hope whatever supplement the new Ranger will be in is ready. And that this doesn't come alone. SCAG certainly does not cut it by itself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 6931431, member: 12731"] You can relax - your interpretation is wrong :) The simplest and cleanest way is to lay out the allowed character sources already before the campaign starts. Such as "only PHB build options please" for example. First off, I would probably allow a hypothetical 3PP race or background, since they're unlikely to break anything. Classes, subclasses, spells and class features (where the real meat of a character lies) not so much. What I could possibly do is to consider mixing one class with the subclass of another class. Now, my players generally don't frequent the forums, and don't buy from DMs Guild. So thankfully I'm getting few such "conversations". That might change, though. For each new campaign (and the next time would be the fourth time, I guess, we sat down to create a 5E party) the desire to use more material than PHB grows. Hopefully WotC will deliver by then. Otherwise that might make players look elsewhere. The current official build offerings I'd rate as follows: - races: good (there are lots of races; they're easy to make and to allow) - classes: the 5E PHB was actually outright generous. By next time, I hope whatever supplement the new Ranger will be in is ready. And that this doesn't come alone. SCAG certainly does not cut it by itself. [/QUOTE]

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