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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ourph" data-source="post: 3955473" data-attributes="member: 20239">Most of the games I've played in or seen run by others allow any official material from WotC (barring setting-specific material from other settings in some cases) to be used by players.  Not only is this SOP as far as my experience with the hobby goes, it should also be the SOP that WotC wants to encourage with its customers (the more games allowing all official material, the more demand there will be for that material).  I'm actually a little flabbergasted that someone would suggest this is a problem with the DM's judgement.  This is official material we're talking about, stuff published by the makers of D&D to be used specifically for the game of D&D.  WotC intends for people to buy and use those products in their games and (unless I'm very much mistaken about their motives) they don't intend for said products to cause campaign-meltdown.  Given that, the fact that there are game-breaking combos to be found within that officially published material would seems to indicate that someone at WotC should take the blame, not the individual DM who failed to personally review and playtest every official rulebook before allowing his players to use it.Holding the DM accountable for not catching mistakes in a product that has (ostensibly) been playtested by the company who makes it seems downright unfair to me.   :\</blockquote>