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<blockquote data-quote="ProfessorCirno" data-source="post: 5510398" data-attributes="member: 65637">While Spell Compendium had a lot of broken spells, it just made the balance &quot;worse,&quot; not &quot;bad.&quot;PHB has Time Stop, Alter Self, the entire Polymorph line, Glitterdust, and a huge range of laughably powerful spells.&nbsp; It also has the Natural Spell feat that makes druids become the scions of power, and Divine Power which lets clerics literally become fighters along with their already present spellcasting.Blaming books after the fact is dodging the issue.&nbsp; The problem was present in the core books.Besides, it doesn't take a douchebag player to ruin things.&nbsp; People here seem to think &quot;imbalance&quot; lies at the hand of Pun-Pun or the wizard that purposefully steals everyone else's role.&nbsp; It's not.&nbsp; Imbalance starts when a player says &quot;I think I'll make a druid, and Natural Spell looks useful.&quot;&nbsp; Or when a wizard says &quot;Well I want the highest intelligence I can get, and this Color Spray spell sounds really cool!&quot;3.x imbalance is at it's highest when the accidental allows for horrendous disparity.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ProfessorCirno, post: 5510398, member: 65637"] While Spell Compendium had a lot of broken spells, it just made the balance "worse," not "bad." PHB has Time Stop, Alter Self, the entire Polymorph line, Glitterdust, and a huge range of laughably powerful spells. It also has the Natural Spell feat that makes druids become the scions of power, and Divine Power which lets clerics literally become fighters along with their already present spellcasting. Blaming books after the fact is dodging the issue. The problem was present in the core books. Besides, it doesn't take a douchebag player to ruin things. People here seem to think "imbalance" lies at the hand of Pun-Pun or the wizard that purposefully steals everyone else's role. It's not. Imbalance starts when a player says "I think I'll make a druid, and Natural Spell looks useful." Or when a wizard says "Well I want the highest intelligence I can get, and this Color Spray spell sounds really cool!" 3.x imbalance is at it's highest when the [I]accidental[/I] allows for horrendous disparity. [/QUOTE]

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