The Gaming Den

I've been using a smattering of Tome material in my home 3.5 D&D game and I'm statting up a BBEG with a couple of different builds to see how I like it. I'm running into some stuff where I'm not sure what the design intent is or how to adjudicate the way it works. First of all, the warlock gets ...

I posted briefly on the Den as CaptainComics some years ago, but I don't seem to be able to get back into that account. I haven't posted since the big reset, so that probably has something to do with it. Anyway, I'm back now to post probably a handful of specific questions and then go back to lurkin...

The general consensus around here is that the Tome Feats did not solve the feat problems of 3E/3.5 and were a failure, but I've never seen it actually explained why they failed. Are they just too much for players to keep track of? Do they not give you the breadth of abilities that feats need to? Som...