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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jollyninja" data-source="post: 212658" data-attributes="member: 3208"><p>i would say that financially d20 is most likley a success. to many companies are still in buisiness for it to be called otherwise. i love the system and think the ogl is great but my main gripe with the whole thing is alot of third party publishers do not seem to look at how their products fit into the game as a whole, creating prestige classes and feats that are horribly unbalanced, bringing back 2e/1e concepts that do not really fit 3e particularly well. the whole thing about the system is supposed to be balance but alot of the time the third party stuff is most certianly not. i'm not saying that WotC is perfect in every way or anything but at least i have only come across a couple of things that have caused horrid munchkining in my groups that originated within a WotC book (tempest prestige class) while allmost the entire set of prc's in the quintessential fighter are in my opinion little more then attempts to make DnD's theoretical "combat machines" even more powerful in every way. limiting what weapons the character gets his bonuses with does not balance the prestige class in any way. what living blade is ever not going to have his weapon of choice around? the master archer will allways have his bow handy. all in all i suppose i am glad that so much product exists just because it allows me more options but most of the non WotC stuff sees little or no use in my games so it has in the end failed me at the verry least.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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