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[Lanefan]

Originally Posted by justanobody

Not for me thanks. It makes the world more out to be DM vs player than any edition before ever could be, for the simple fact that the players are downright forbidden to do thing the DM has the ability to do during combat.

When talking about members of the same race, I agree.

Keep in mind, though, that there are (and should be) intrinsic monster abilities that PCs just don't or can't have, by virtue of what they are(n't). For example, a Medusa's gaze can turn you to stone. No player character race can do that, nor should they be able to; and Medusae should not be player characters. I've done the same thing with psyonics in my current game: PC races can't, as a general rule, be psyonic...but some monsters (e.g. Mind Flayers, some Demons, etc.) can.

Where you lose internal consistency is when members of the same race are arbitrarily banned from having abilities that other members of the same race can have, with the only difference being that some are PCs and some are not.

Lanefan