Epic6 and BO9S: Your thoughts

[Stalker0]

Currently I have no explicit plans to remove any books...though their availability will be limited by what people have. My group doesn't have a lot of 3e books from some of the later days.

I've got a few newer plays and a few wisened vets, and the vets definitely know how to put a character together to kick some butt.

Before I can answer your question Stalker0, I would need to know more about your players.

If you have a group of inveterate power gamers who are experts at building druids/clerics/wizards then you might have a problem with magic versus martial builds, but in my recent E6 game I saw no such problems and we went from levels 1-5 and spent 3 times as long as usual at each level; I still had no problems.

What kind of E6 game are you running; If you allow spells from the spell compendium, for example, then casters become much more versatile as some of the low level spells in there are slightly more powerful than PHB1. Similarly, if you allow all martial feats from all the books, the warrior builds can become more powerful.

Without knowing this sort of stuff, it is impossible to help you, but my prejudice is that BO9S is not a good idea as it will make your martial characters overpowered.