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<blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 7672488" data-attributes="member: 6677017">Actually, that's exactly how I feel about new content. I've only ever used someone's fan content a handful of times in very specific instances. The first was when I ran across it while scrambling to optimize a character so as not to fall way behind a high-optimization group. Another time involves conversions of mass quantities of monster from 2e to 3e, which is way more work than I want to do. Another time involved a third party supplement with an extensive treatment of equipment lists/prices/upkeep that revised the 3e content. And the other time involved a really good spell created by [MENTION=6785902]Fralex[/MENTION] which I modified for my own use.The majority of the time I simply have no interest in using someone else's unofficial material. I'd like to have something official from WotC, and I will put effort into using it as close to the way they present it to me as I can, and if I have to change it, I'll try to make minor tweaks rather than tossing it out. If they give me nothing, I'll just make my own material more or less from scratch.For me, part of the value of D&amp;D is the shared assumptions of rules and world. While I could never go strictly RAW or Lore as Written, I like to stay as close as I can stomach so my players get to feel like they are playing D&amp;D rather than &quot;Sword of Spirit's game loosely based off of D&amp;D&quot; -- because I can make my own games as tightly or loosely based on D&amp;D as I want, and I'm not marketing those to my players as D&amp;D.A lot of people make the mistake that the theory is based on &quot;the&quot; test. It's really not. The theory is a series of ongoing developments based originally on the work of Carl Jung. &quot;The&quot; test is just an inconsistently accurate evaluation tool some of the people involved created to attempt identify a person's best fit in the theory. A serious study of it will ignore the test and go to the theory. A few hours of direct study will dispel any &quot;Barnum statements&quot; and get to the core of the theory's contributions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sword of Spirit, post: 7672488, member: 6677017"] Actually, that's exactly how I feel about new content. I've only ever used someone's fan content a handful of times in very specific instances. The first was when I ran across it while scrambling to optimize a character so as not to fall way behind a high-optimization group. Another time involves conversions of mass quantities of monster from 2e to 3e, which is way more work than I want to do. Another time involved a third party supplement with an extensive treatment of equipment lists/prices/upkeep that revised the 3e content. And the other time involved a really good spell created by [MENTION=6785902]Fralex[/MENTION] which I modified for my own use. The majority of the time I simply have no interest in using someone else's unofficial material. I'd like to have something official from WotC, and I will put effort into using it as close to the way they present it to me as I can, and if I have to change it, I'll try to make minor tweaks rather than tossing it out. If they give me nothing, I'll just make my own material more or less from scratch. For me, part of the value of D&D is the shared assumptions of rules and world. While I could never go strictly RAW or Lore as Written, I like to stay as close as I can stomach so my players get to feel like they are playing D&D rather than "Sword of Spirit's game loosely based off of D&D" -- because I can make my own games as tightly or loosely based on D&D as I want, and I'm not marketing those to my players [I]as D&D[/I]. A lot of people make the mistake that the theory is based on "the" test. It's really not. The theory is a series of ongoing developments based originally on the work of Carl Jung. "The" test is just an inconsistently accurate evaluation tool some of the people involved created to attempt identify a person's best fit in the theory. A serious study of it will ignore the test and go to the theory. A few hours of direct study will dispel any "Barnum statements" and get to the core of the theory's contributions. [/QUOTE]

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