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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rowport" data-source="post: 3795166" data-attributes="member: 9729">First off, I am posting as (primarily) a player, not as a GM, since your questions are clearly geared towards GMs.  (That said, when I do run one-shots, I always say "bring it on" to the players-- I find seeing what others come up with to be as entertaining as making my own characters.)To answer your question: yes, I do consider myself obessive/compulsive.  I am certainly not to the extent that I cannot function in polite society (!) but when I collected comics, I was a completist.  Heck, I bought Uncanny X-Men for about 10 years after I really stopped enjoying reading it, just because I always bought it!  When I played CRPGs later, I played them all, non-stop.  Once that industry shifted towards either MMOGs (which I don't like) or console-only games (which are too repetitive for my taste) I shifted back to PnP D&D.  For the last several years now I have bought D&D books like crazy!  But: I am not buying them simply for doing so.  I really enjoy pulling out the fun bits from all kinds of books, and seeing how they can create unique characters.Despite the knee-jerk posts I see here occasionally, this is not always a powergaming exercise.  For example, I am toying around now with a Fist of the Forest character from the PrC in Complete Champion.  That is not overpowered (heck, it might well be underpowered, since it is based on Monk abilities!) but it just sounds cool to me-- the unarmed wild man.I guess my lengthy replies here are my reaction against too much intention to restrict players, restrain options, curb ideas.  Let your players try new stuff!  It is a game!  Where is the downside??   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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