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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 1519819" data-attributes="member: 158"><p>I have a few random thoughts; feel free to heed or ignore them as you like.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Are boatloads of sources available every time he runs a game? If so, it's possible <em>he's setting himself up for failure </em> before he begins. The more sources available, the more complicated PC's get, and the more devastating combos of Prestige Classes and feats and class abilities come into play that make high-level DM'ing more complicated.</p><p></p><p>Too many sources mean too many posible exploits in abilities. There's nothing wrong with lots of sources, it's just that some DM's don't like to or can't handle the myriad complications that all these sourcebooks jammed together introduce. Just because they're WotC-introduced doesn't mean they are balanced one with another. </p><p></p><p>As a suggestion, he or you should try building a campaign from scratch using ONLY the core 3.5 rules and see where that takes you. While 3.5 has it's idiosyncasies, it is more compatible with higher-level games than 3.0 was. The core books are still a wealth of choices, and it just may narrow the focus enough such that he's inspired to take the campaign to higher levels.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>With scores like that, you can be anything and everything! Every class has something to offer at lower levels as well as high. If you don't have a preference, or if you want to be a "real gamer" about it, roll a d12 for a random class and a d6 for race and a 1d2 for gender and play whatever comes up. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I've actually done this before, and my little female halfling druid was a blast to play.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Henry, post: 1519819, member: 158"] I have a few random thoughts; feel free to heed or ignore them as you like. Are boatloads of sources available every time he runs a game? If so, it's possible [I]he's setting himself up for failure [/I] before he begins. The more sources available, the more complicated PC's get, and the more devastating combos of Prestige Classes and feats and class abilities come into play that make high-level DM'ing more complicated. Too many sources mean too many posible exploits in abilities. There's nothing wrong with lots of sources, it's just that some DM's don't like to or can't handle the myriad complications that all these sourcebooks jammed together introduce. Just because they're WotC-introduced doesn't mean they are balanced one with another. As a suggestion, he or you should try building a campaign from scratch using ONLY the core 3.5 rules and see where that takes you. While 3.5 has it's idiosyncasies, it is more compatible with higher-level games than 3.0 was. The core books are still a wealth of choices, and it just may narrow the focus enough such that he's inspired to take the campaign to higher levels. With scores like that, you can be anything and everything! Every class has something to offer at lower levels as well as high. If you don't have a preference, or if you want to be a "real gamer" about it, roll a d12 for a random class and a d6 for race and a 1d2 for gender and play whatever comes up. :) I've actually done this before, and my little female halfling druid was a blast to play. [/QUOTE]
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