Yes. But you have fewer options without crazy shennanigans, and I like variety and flavor. Playing the same thing all the time gets old quickly.
NiN has been pretty much playing ONLY Druid and Beguilers for a loooong time now. Both are crazy powerful when played right, but nobody complains about them. There seem to be "acceptable" characters with INSANE POWAR, and then a whole bunch of options that get everybody riled up - even though they're actually a LOT less powerful than the "acceptable" choices.
This confuses me to no end. :confused
Remember when the Warlock was published? Everybody was all "oooh - overpowered!" They were wrong, of course, but somehow everybody jumped on the "it's broken!" bandwagon and tried to make up a million excuses for outlawing it. Odd.
Oh - and ToB! Some people STILL act like that book's broken! As though the power to ALTER THE FABRIC OF REALITY is okay, but repeatable abilities that require attack rolls are just RIDICULOUS, and should be OUTLAWED!
Or Psionics! They got tarred with that brush too! Despite the fact that a standard caster from the base book could eat the face off any Psi character! :
The heart of it, for me, is the Everything Goes Gospels. I really started that thread to address the "unspoken prejudices" that seem to be everywhere in d20 - even amongst the CO brethren. For me, the extra splats, templates, spells, etc. from a million different places just allow me to make more interesting characters - something outside of Druid or Cleric.
I mean sheesh - would anybody blink if I pulled out a DMM cleric? And, as stated, an Entangling Exhalation DFA would be WAAAAY more dangerous than my silly unseelie fey.
But hey - I'm okay with rules and regulations based solely on personal preference. I think the only thing that riles me is when someone tries to defend outlawed choices as "logical" or "balanced." :wink
I'll be the bug. Maybe the orcy charger. Or heck - all this talk of DFAs has made me wanna play one . . .