Yup.
If you want to play a dragonborn PC, play in someone else's 5E game. Simple as that.
and here we go... shutting down discussion and deciding that one player is above the others... "My game my way or get out"
I don't want to compromise that and am not going to.
you wont even discuss the possibility
My friends who play with me wouldn't force me to. Only people who believe that DMs must compromise or some such believe that.
the only must is be resnoble... you don't have to compromise but you must realize that will alienate some people...
Just like I don't want to play GURPS. If I'm DMing, we are not playing GURPS and nothing a player says will get me to switch from 5E to GURPS (or to Pathfinder or to any other game system as long as I am in the mood to DM 5E).
but would you discuss at the end of a campaign if a player said "Hey instead of the next campaign being D&D can it be gurps?"
or more on topic, "Hey in your next game can you make a small group of dragon men that are PCable for me?"
To me, these two points are the same. The player is not entitled to play a Dragonborn in a campaign that disallows them, just like the player is not entitled to play GURPS when the game system is 5E.
OK, so again as above "Can you make a world I CAN play my idea in?"
People make their own decisions. If someone else is DM, that person is making the campaign decisions.
the group gets to decide... just because all of your players give up there chance to speak doesn't mean everyone should
If our group of players decides that we want to play Star Wars and the person willing to DM it says no droid PCs, then there are no droid PCs. A player might try to convince the DM, but if the DM says no, then the DM says no. End of story. The player can move on, or the player can play a different PC.
except if the DM say "No we can't even talk about it" lets go back to
A player might try to convince the DM,
that means the DM actually listens and evaluates not makes up his mind before the talk starts...
lets take your example... 5 people sit down to play star wars 1 says "No droids" another says "But I really want to play the droid idea" if the other 3 people say "hey nothing wrong with droids let him" is it ok to not listen?
Yup. If I am DM, no compromise on this point. Going in. No dragonborn PCs.
why?? I have asked a doxzen times... all you say is no...
[quite]And no, some people's opinion that this is the sign of a "bad DM" does not make it so. [/quote]
yea just like your opinion that it is "good" does not make it so...
My campaign world is the way it is, your opinion of my not compromising on a handful of campaign rules doesn't mean squat.
ok, then why argue? I'm trying to get an idea across, one that at times you seem fine with then snap like someone just told you off...
There is no one right way to DM, and fun does not just exist with me having to allow players to get their own way.
fun does not exist with me having to put up with people telling me I can't play what I want...