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<blockquote data-quote="Moff_Tarkin" data-source="post: 4272251" data-attributes="member: 14175">I have a quick question. Sorry if it has been asked before, but it may be the deciding factor over how eager I am about 4th edition.How bad is power gaming and munchkin in 4th edition compared to 3.5. I know in 3.5, if you knew where to look, you could pull crazy power-gaming feats, like stacking attack and damage bonuses from a dozen different places, or combine feats/abilities from random books to make really overpowered characters.Maybe its something I have read or just wishful thinking, but I was assuming that 4th edition would not be so bad in terms of power-gaming. I guess at the beginning there will only be the base books, so that would cut down on people taking weird things from obscure sources, but do the 4th edition rules support munchkins as much as 3.5?One more thing. Can you use the 4th edition rules to play a monster from the monsters manual like you can in 3.5? We have a guy that refuses to play unless he can be something crazy like a dragon. We usually give him what he wants because a dragon with the same ECL of the party is so weak he is just a joke.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Moff_Tarkin, post: 4272251, member: 14175"] I have a quick question. Sorry if it has been asked before, but it may be the deciding factor over how eager I am about 4th edition. How bad is power gaming and munchkin in 4th edition compared to 3.5. I know in 3.5, if you knew where to look, you could pull crazy power-gaming feats, like stacking attack and damage bonuses from a dozen different places, or combine feats/abilities from random books to make really overpowered characters. Maybe its something I have read or just wishful thinking, but I was assuming that 4th edition would not be so bad in terms of power-gaming. I guess at the beginning there will only be the base books, so that would cut down on people taking weird things from obscure sources, but do the 4th edition rules support munchkins as much as 3.5? One more thing. Can you use the 4th edition rules to play a monster from the monsters manual like you can in 3.5? We have a guy that refuses to play unless he can be something crazy like a dragon. We usually give him what he wants because a dragon with the same ECL of the party is so weak he is just a joke. [/QUOTE]

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