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Burning Questions: Why Do DMs Limit Official WOTC Material?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Mhoram" data-source="post: 7762592" data-attributes="member: 4789"><p>One big thing is fairness. The rules of the campaign are set up at the beginning and DM and players agreed to it. Say everyone at the table (but one) hates dragonborn (for whatever reason) - so dragonborn are banned from the game (the one guy who likes them thinking "oh, I can play one in a different game". Then a new player comes in and wants to play a dragonborn - most everyone at the table hates them, and the one guy who would have played a dragonborn, but didn't because he was ok with waiting - would then have thier fun lessened by catering to the late-coming player.</p><p></p><p>Another reason - Everyone's job at the table is to make sure everyone has fun - DM and players. And just as a DM wouldn't tell a player "You now have a level in Warlock" because that isn't the players choice.. a DM (who's input into the game is the World, the NPCs primarily) has the same sense that player would if a new player came in and said "you are going to let this character play as written".</p><p></p><p>The DM sets the world/setting/tone (usually with input, or at least agreement to a pitch from the players), the players then abide by that structure. If a player doesn't want to, he can wait to play that character concept later, or not play, or chose to DM himself - there are lots of options for that player.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lord Mhoram, post: 7762592, member: 4789"] One big thing is fairness. The rules of the campaign are set up at the beginning and DM and players agreed to it. Say everyone at the table (but one) hates dragonborn (for whatever reason) - so dragonborn are banned from the game (the one guy who likes them thinking "oh, I can play one in a different game". Then a new player comes in and wants to play a dragonborn - most everyone at the table hates them, and the one guy who would have played a dragonborn, but didn't because he was ok with waiting - would then have thier fun lessened by catering to the late-coming player. Another reason - Everyone's job at the table is to make sure everyone has fun - DM and players. And just as a DM wouldn't tell a player "You now have a level in Warlock" because that isn't the players choice.. a DM (who's input into the game is the World, the NPCs primarily) has the same sense that player would if a new player came in and said "you are going to let this character play as written". The DM sets the world/setting/tone (usually with input, or at least agreement to a pitch from the players), the players then abide by that structure. If a player doesn't want to, he can wait to play that character concept later, or not play, or chose to DM himself - there are lots of options for that player. [/QUOTE]
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