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<blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 5026831" data-attributes="member: 40177">I guess I should weigh in on this.&nbsp; Because, well, I am the GM that caused Blargney's initial concerns.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />So, we have a rule at our table that basically amounts to &quot;When using the Character Builder, we do not use anything from DRAGON magazine&quot;.&nbsp; While you can say that's unfair or whatever, I just figure it saves me from one major headache.&nbsp; And we've been pretty good with it - people have accidentally taken dragon feats, and then corrected the problem with a heads-up to me.&nbsp; The big problem came when Blargney put his minotaur PC through the CB, and realized he lost Oversized.&nbsp; Since he was playing a fighter that was built towards offence over defence, it kind of hurt his bottom line.&nbsp; However, at this point, I was kind of thinking that oversized had been errata'd out of the MM, and felt that there was a good reason for it (also, that it made sense - the minotaur fighter does a lot more damage than the Dragonborn Paladin).To compensate though, because the minotaur lost a big &quot;power&quot;, I offered Blargney the Iron Armbands of Power, a previously &quot;no&quot; item - essentially, balancing things out a little bit.&nbsp; Which I thought was a fair trade.&nbsp; When we realized that the new minotaur was from DRAGON, though, I Had to repeal that rule, because it'd be kind of lame for me as a GM to say &quot;you can't use any of the good stuff from dragon, but anything that screws you guys over has to be adopted&quot;.&nbsp; So, I took back my initial ruling, and went from there.&nbsp; Really, I have NO problem with PC races being different mechanically than non-PCs of the same the race.&nbsp; Because, really, the only person who will notice (most of the time) is the GM.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wik, post: 5026831, member: 40177"] I guess I should weigh in on this. Because, well, I am the GM that caused Blargney's initial concerns. ;) So, we have a rule at our table that basically amounts to "When using the Character Builder, we do not use anything from DRAGON magazine". While you can say that's unfair or whatever, I just figure it saves me from one major headache. And we've been pretty good with it - people have accidentally taken dragon feats, and then corrected the problem with a heads-up to me. The big problem came when Blargney put his minotaur PC through the CB, and realized he lost Oversized. Since he was playing a fighter that was built towards offence over defence, it kind of hurt his bottom line. However, at this point, I was kind of thinking that oversized had been errata'd out of the MM, and felt that there was a good reason for it (also, that it made sense - the minotaur fighter does a lot more damage than the Dragonborn Paladin). To compensate though, because the minotaur lost a big "power", I offered Blargney the Iron Armbands of Power, a previously "no" item - essentially, balancing things out a little bit. Which I thought was a fair trade. When we realized that the new minotaur was from DRAGON, though, I Had to repeal that rule, because it'd be kind of lame for me as a GM to say "you can't use any of the good stuff from dragon, but anything that screws you guys over has to be adopted". So, I took back my initial ruling, and went from there. Really, I have NO problem with PC races being different mechanically than non-PCs of the same the race. Because, really, the only person who will notice (most of the time) is the GM. [/QUOTE]

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