evildice
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As I understand it, a big thing in 3.5E D&D that was spread around a handful of splatbooks, official and third-party both, was something like customizable metamagic. Which was something that allowed for horrendously broken magic workings, and which has had even the smallest hints of similar flexibility nerfed into the ground in all later D&D systems, and offerings.
That sounds ominous but without enough information to convey meaning.
D&D has always had customizable magic -- many of the "name" spells in this edition were invented by players of a previous edition.
A lot of the most broken spells and combos were in the PHB, for example Shapechange.