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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greg K" data-source="post: 6601796" data-attributes="member: 5038">Who held a gun to your head and made you purchase the books?  Nobody. You made the decision to buy the books. If you are were the DM (and it sounds as if you were), you choose what to use and what not to include. It is not hard to look through books and see if it will be worthwhile purchase based upon what you will include in your game.Padding and filler is a separate issue.  WOTC put a lot of what I felt was garbage in their 3e products in the form of PrCs.Guess what? I bought little of their supplements.  I definitely didn't buy their Race or Class oriented books and very little would be allowed from them if a player wanted to use them (Ari's Complete Mage would be an exception if I didn't use the Wizard specialist material from Unearthed Arcana)On the other hand, when I run, I use supplements from Green Ronin along with a few supplements from Monkey God, Lion's Den, Blue Devil, EN World and even one or two from Malhavoc which were smaller products with tighter focus and little padding and/or approached the topic in a manner that I liked compared to WOTC's take.Yet despite my dislike for the majority of WOTC's 3e supplements and PrCs, a lot of people liked them and used them. I don't hold it against WOTC for producing supplements for which many fans liked and found use even if I did not.  I just told players, "No" a specific supplement would not be in use or just a few specific items from a supplement would be allowed and, rather than purchase it myself, found other supplements which I would find useful.</blockquote>

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