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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faraer" data-source="post: 3033429" data-attributes="member: 6318">The thing is, they're not real choices. They don't give you any options about who your character is that you wouldn't have without them. Most of the meaningful things you could decide about your character and what they can do can be handled with the core rules. For the relative few that can't, if you don't want to make new rules up, the existence of this stuff is helpful because a forum like this one can probably lead you to what you need. And occasionally this material can provoke an idea you wouldn't have had otherwise. But a character 'built' by someone with 100 d20 books is not, on average, any more interesting or varied -- except in terms of gimmicks and different rules manifestations of the same basic concept -- than someone without, and likely less so than someone with 100 books of inspiring non-rules content.This is consumerist 'choice' of the order of what brand of sneakers you wear, and it exists to sell books.</blockquote>