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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 3628882" data-attributes="member: 1465">Power creep is inherent with the publishing of more and more books. It's about having just a few options per book which are better or cheaper than average. A character using a couple of those options is ok, but things may get nasty in the hands of a player who picks the "slightly better" stuff from each book and combines them. If everyone does that, the game is still ok, but if only some player does it then the game may become unfair, like running the same race with very different cars.And of course power creep is not blatanly visible, otherwise it would be "power flood". <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=":)" /> You certainly see it better in higher level campaigns, with PCs that have lots of spells, feats, classes or items.How to limit the problem is straightforward:- don't allow using too many books for PC creation in the same campaign (or to the same PC)- don't be to quick in pushing the campaign to high level- explicitly agree with the players not to exploit the material too much</blockquote>