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<blockquote data-quote="kitcik" data-source="post: 5703540" data-attributes="member: 98256">A few thoughts on this:1) Most truely &quot;broken&quot; builds require dubious rules interpretations. Maybe by a lawyer's reading they are RAW, but they are clearly not RAI. You shouldn't need a list of these - just ban them as they come up.2) Any (reasonably well played) full caster will overbalance a party where other party members are Tier 4 and below. You have to consider how far you want to take this.3) I actually agree about Inspire Courage. We have an 8th-10th level party and our 9th level bard is throwing off +6/+8 Inspire Courage, which makes encounters either very easy or based on inititative. I would prefer this did not occur until much higher levels.4) One &quot;broken&quot; build that does seem to be RAI and does not involve complicated multiclass / substitution level / feat combos is straight-up Planar Shepherd PrC. That is an easy one to ban. So are certain anthropomorphic animal races from Savage Species, like Bat and Balleen Whale.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kitcik, post: 5703540, member: 98256"] A few thoughts on this: 1) Most truely "broken" builds require dubious rules interpretations. Maybe by a lawyer's reading they are RAW, but they are clearly not RAI. You shouldn't need a list of these - just ban them as they come up. 2) Any (reasonably well played) full caster will overbalance a party where other party members are Tier 4 and below. You have to consider how far you want to take this. 3) I actually agree about Inspire Courage. We have an 8th-10th level party and our 9th level bard is throwing off +6/+8 Inspire Courage, which makes encounters either very easy or based on inititative. I would prefer this did not occur until much higher levels. 4) One "broken" build that does seem to be RAI and does not involve complicated multiclass / substitution level / feat combos is straight-up Planar Shepherd PrC. That is an easy one to ban. So are certain anthropomorphic animal races from Savage Species, like Bat and Balleen Whale. [/QUOTE]

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