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<blockquote data-quote="Ximenes088" data-source="post: 4341952" data-attributes="member: 59899"><p>In my world, the rules for PC creation and development represent the optimal path for a hero. Other entities and combatants might have their own suite of tricks, but they either don't ultimately equal the flexibility and potential of the PC route, or they require backgrounds or sacrifices that no PC would reasonably make- at least, no PC I want to run a game for. Yes, city guards can do a halberd-hook at-will power, but that's because it's the only thing their training is good for, and their training is incompatible with the PC's own. Yes, the BBEG can summon flaming serpents from Hell at-will, but that's because he sold his soul to a devil. And no, you can't learn how to garrote people the same way a bugbear strangler does, because their god originally blessed their ancestors with a supernatural talent for it that non-bugbears will never learn. And if the PC _is_ a bugbear and does somehow want to revolve his concept around strangling people, then I'll work with that.</p><p></p><p>But under no circumstances am I going to fork over some BBEG's unique power because some 3.5-minded PC is demanding to know what the feat chain to get it is. The world is big and scary and PCs- and players- have a mechanically perfect grasp of only their small corner of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ximenes088, post: 4341952, member: 59899"] In my world, the rules for PC creation and development represent the optimal path for a hero. Other entities and combatants might have their own suite of tricks, but they either don't ultimately equal the flexibility and potential of the PC route, or they require backgrounds or sacrifices that no PC would reasonably make- at least, no PC I want to run a game for. Yes, city guards can do a halberd-hook at-will power, but that's because it's the only thing their training is good for, and their training is incompatible with the PC's own. Yes, the BBEG can summon flaming serpents from Hell at-will, but that's because he sold his soul to a devil. And no, you can't learn how to garrote people the same way a bugbear strangler does, because their god originally blessed their ancestors with a supernatural talent for it that non-bugbears will never learn. And if the PC _is_ a bugbear and does somehow want to revolve his concept around strangling people, then I'll work with that. But under no circumstances am I going to fork over some BBEG's unique power because some 3.5-minded PC is demanding to know what the feat chain to get it is. The world is big and scary and PCs- and players- have a mechanically perfect grasp of only their small corner of it. [/QUOTE]
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