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Message: <blockquote data-quote="draquila" data-source="post: 5230054" data-attributes="member: 90912">Just a quick request for advice.I've recently started as a new DM with a party of 5 virgin D&D players (all of us had 0 D&D experience to begin with).We wanted to try the 4E starter kit adventure (I bemoaned its deficiencies on a separate thread already) but create our own characters. Due to our lack of rulebooks, we just used this online character builder (<a href="http://hk.anetcity.com/sheepy/chargen/" target="_blank">Sheepy's JavaScript D&D 4e Character Generator</a>). We played through one session, and now all the players are on level 2 and need to level up.I had a go at the WotC official demo character builder, and I realised there's actually a GAZILLION extra feats/powers/etc from other rulebooks/magazines. Now my question is, if I tell my players to stick to PHB only feats and powers for the sake of simplicity, would that gimp their characters? Is it true that some of the feats from the "expansions" are very good/necessary to fix some classes?</blockquote>