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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RUMBLETiGER" data-source="post: 6186258" data-attributes="member: 6674868">I personally own most of the 3.5 material.My rule has always been to allow any books except Unearthed Arcana, because of the variant systems.  Magazine material needs to be run by me first.  Rediculious character builds are kept in check my telling my PCs that if they make something broken, I as the DM and controller of the rest of the universe could do the same on whatever enemies I throw at them, and I've resorted to adding templates and class levels on monsters in the past to maintain player/world balance.  I've rewarded creative, powerful thinking based on how much fun in creates for everybody.  One example- a player in a high level campaign used the <a href="http://dndtools.eu/spells/complete-divine--56/enveloping-cocoon--701/" target="_blank">Enveloping Cocoon</a> spell to overcome the saves for <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/balefulPolymorph.htm" target="_blank">Baleful Polymorph</a>.  This was broken powerful, but he carried around a menagerie of powerful kittens he'd throw in the faces of enemies.  It was hilarious to everybody, and therefore allowable.</blockquote>