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<blockquote data-quote="Iosue" data-source="post: 5893940" data-attributes="member: 6680772"><p>I think this a great idea, an elegant and useful solution to <a href="http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4ll/20110322" target="_blank">the gnome problem</a>. For many groups, all of the races and classes will be fair game, so the rarity label will just be an unused line, like encumbrance rules. Other groups will have playstyles where the group trusts the DM to allow or disallow races/classes as he sees fit. The common/uncommon/rare designations, if nothing else, can at least be a useful shorthand for those DMs, even if they don't use the default settings. So it's an unintrusive, unused setting for those who don't need it. But for those groups who can use it, where a DM may not feel confident banning races or classes that are in the PHB, or for novice DMs just starting out making their own world, it can be a default that makes it easier for them to manage all the options in the PHB, or a system that lets them adjust the setting that has rulebook backing, so they don't have to go all Viking hat.</p><p></p><p>People often say, "How can WotC provide a game when one group wants A, and another group wants Z, the exact opposite?" Some folks want dragonborn, tieflings, and warlords in the PHB. Others just want the classic races and the classic classes. This system gives them both what they want -- <em>and</em> gives us in the excluded middle a bunch of options as well. We are excluded no more!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Iosue, post: 5893940, member: 6680772"] I think this a great idea, an elegant and useful solution to [URL="http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4ll/20110322"]the gnome problem[/URL]. For many groups, all of the races and classes will be fair game, so the rarity label will just be an unused line, like encumbrance rules. Other groups will have playstyles where the group trusts the DM to allow or disallow races/classes as he sees fit. The common/uncommon/rare designations, if nothing else, can at least be a useful shorthand for those DMs, even if they don't use the default settings. So it's an unintrusive, unused setting for those who don't need it. But for those groups who can use it, where a DM may not feel confident banning races or classes that are in the PHB, or for novice DMs just starting out making their own world, it can be a default that makes it easier for them to manage all the options in the PHB, or a system that lets them adjust the setting that has rulebook backing, so they don't have to go all Viking hat. People often say, "How can WotC provide a game when one group wants A, and another group wants Z, the exact opposite?" Some folks want dragonborn, tieflings, and warlords in the PHB. Others just want the classic races and the classic classes. This system gives them both what they want -- [i]and[/i] gives us in the excluded middle a bunch of options as well. We are excluded no more! [/QUOTE]
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