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Message: <blockquote data-quote="riprock" data-source="post: 2983790" data-attributes="member: 42506">When D&D 3.0 came out, I really liked it.  When it started getting bogged down with extra material, I liked it less.  However, I thought rule-intensive games could be good -- because I assumed that everyone would always have a high commitment to consistency in rule systems.Now, just today, I have read about Pun-Pun and his assorted cohorts.Pun-Pun is a perfectly legal 3.5 character build.  One starts with a kobold; it takes one level in Wizard, one level in Divine Minion, and three levels in "Master of Many Forms."  It has a familiar.  At fifth level, it can give itself arbitrarily high numbers for all stats, break down the barriers between planes, and kill all the gods.That, you see, is what happens when rule-intensive games don't check for consistency.The whole bizarre construction of Pun-Pun can be found at:<a href="http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?p=7092268#post7092268&origin=&origin=" target="_blank">Pun-Pun post</a> An elegant Action Point exploit is at:<a href="http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?t=565966" target="_blank">http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?t=565966</a> The list of 3.5 loopholes can be continued for days.Say what you like about AD&D -- it was *hard* to become a god and the DM's judgement was written into the process.Likewise, in the Rules Cyclopedia --- becoming a god was doable, reasonable, and very challenging.</blockquote>

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