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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyaricus" data-source="post: 2512792" data-attributes="member: 35678">sorry, i am not sure what SRD is, but i will assume you are refering to the 3 core books > PHB, MM, and DMG  well, since you are the DM, shouldnt you buy any books you deem you need, and you players buy what they need/feel they need? for example, i dont really care for arcane spell casters (i run a low-magic campaign), so i did not buy the Complete Arcane book, but one of my players did. meanwhile, i have a whole slew of books that are mostly for DMs/world-builders only, but some with stuff that the players can utilize, like the other Complete books.  funny, i am DMing all begginers right now as well. But if you have begginers, i (now) believe that starting with low level characters, and doing a few different and low-level campaigns is . in our 4 month-old-campaign, we started at level 9, and they struggled because they didnt really get how everything was supposed to work, etc. so now we are set to start fresh at level one, and i think that it will help them, and familiarize them better with D&D. besides, some of them havent yet read LotR, so omeone has to give em some guidelines on medieval fantasy <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />   splatbooks? again, i appoligise, another term i am unfamiliar with. I assume that you thought that i was referring to some crappy 3rd-party publishers or something when i was talkig about using non "core" PrC. i was talking about the mining of FRCS PrCs, the Complete series, and Savage Species. what i have done, is gone through (for my campaign, i should add) and and made a little list of PrCs that my guys can use. that way, i keep the theme going, and give them alot of options from various sources, and also i have a few of my own.  so long as it is all balanced, there shouldnt be an issue with what character-concepts your players come up with.  i wholeheartedly agree. and thats what i do. i abhor power-gaming, and thats why i am a DM (my old DM went from randomly letting us power game, to killing us off quickly, to letting his best friend play a great wyrm red dragon to his getting hooked on cocaine, thus no more DM), and thats why i know the rules (both D20 and my house rules) as well as i do. Its a game, adn it should be fair for everyone. even half-orc wizards <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />.</blockquote>

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