In the era of D&D 3rd edition and its 3.5 update, character building was a wild west. The game's complex rules and deep customisation made it ripe for min-maxing—and an unbelievable barrage of first- and third-party expansion content meant there were always new races, classes, spells, and feats to mess around with, usually all hopelessly unbalanced against each other.
It was a time when every DM cringed at the sight of a player dropping a new book on the table, but at least for most the goal was just to put together a character optimal enough to breeze through that combat encounter that took four hours to prepare. A deviant few had darker designs in mind, and out in the dark corners of the Internet (and the WOTC official forums), they conspired to break not just the balance of the game, but the fundamental laws of its reality.
