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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snoweel" data-source="post: 5015411" data-attributes="member: 4453">Is it worth reporting posts like this?Insulting our intelligence is still insulting us. Thanks.This.At first I totally loved the idea, but after so much prep work I began to grow tired of it, even as early as about 2003.It also led to the idea amongst many gamers that any option the DM made available for NPCs should also be available to PCs. I even got into flamewars on this very board over it - as though PCs should have some kind of right of audit over the DMs NPCs (who ultimately only exist so the players at the table can have a good time).I think what turned me off 3e is the whole legalist mindset that the DM should shoehorn his setting into the PC-balance-straightjacket that is only really intended to keep PCs from outshining each other.When applied to monsters and NPCs it just turned into a book-keeping nightmare that was just about never worth the time and effort investment of DM prep-work.</blockquote>