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<blockquote data-quote="Warpiglet-7" data-source="post: 9235868" data-attributes="member: 7025282"><p>BLUF: anything official goes depending on the situation</p><p></p><p>I am pretty liberal.</p><p></p><p>I basically allow anything in an official book. I don’t want to learn 3pp material. I have on the dm side used some random and short encounters from such offerings. Just no classes and player stuff. I don’t know how it stacks up or interacts with other classes.</p><p></p><p>(I am good with multiclassing and feats…which is germane to mixing stuff).</p><p></p><p>I have made “excuses” that basically allow things to fit my world. For example:</p><p></p><p>I have a large monotheistic religion that holds sway. It swept most other religions away…except here are warlords and enclaves that still practice old faiths. Sometimes a player just wants to play a cleric of Thor!</p><p></p><p>However, such a person would find it hard to have temporal power in the more civilized regions. The bishops are not going to put them in charge of their theocracy! And they he common man might be a bit suspicious…</p><p></p><p>For classes I just let people know the world and they mostly make what they want. One player is an optimizer and took something from Eberron <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤷" title="Person shrugging :person_shrugging:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937.png" data-shortname=":person_shrugging:" /> but it did not effect balance and honestly others probably ignored it/did not notice.</p><p></p><p>For other things it’s case by case. I like drow but they are seen by the average man as the boogeyman. I would have to have a special justification for a drow pc and reason they are not hunted by the lords of the land. A drizzt situation in a remote area, something.</p><p></p><p>So for official material usually anything goes if it can be made with a tone of semi serious. It can be funny like my dwarven warlock quivering rage (think animal from the muppets) but played straight.</p><p></p><p>What I won’t do though is have things happen without consequence. We are not parading bugbear PCs through the middle of mid sized cities and acting like it’s no big deal. We have to work it out. A powerful wizard recruits mercenaries of all kinds to do some dungeon delving for him? Play what you want. </p><p></p><p>My players have interacted with a lizard man first mate and a hobgoblin mercenary captains son loved it so I make room for a pc like that too say aboard a ship or travelling the wilds.</p><p></p><p>But for my world surely avoid creature cantinas (not because they are “wrong” but because they don’t fit what is set up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warpiglet-7, post: 9235868, member: 7025282"] BLUF: anything official goes depending on the situation I am pretty liberal. I basically allow anything in an official book. I don’t want to learn 3pp material. I have on the dm side used some random and short encounters from such offerings. Just no classes and player stuff. I don’t know how it stacks up or interacts with other classes. (I am good with multiclassing and feats…which is germane to mixing stuff). I have made “excuses” that basically allow things to fit my world. For example: I have a large monotheistic religion that holds sway. It swept most other religions away…except here are warlords and enclaves that still practice old faiths. Sometimes a player just wants to play a cleric of Thor! However, such a person would find it hard to have temporal power in the more civilized regions. The bishops are not going to put them in charge of their theocracy! And they he common man might be a bit suspicious… For classes I just let people know the world and they mostly make what they want. One player is an optimizer and took something from Eberron 🤷 but it did not effect balance and honestly others probably ignored it/did not notice. For other things it’s case by case. I like drow but they are seen by the average man as the boogeyman. I would have to have a special justification for a drow pc and reason they are not hunted by the lords of the land. A drizzt situation in a remote area, something. So for official material usually anything goes if it can be made with a tone of semi serious. It can be funny like my dwarven warlock quivering rage (think animal from the muppets) but played straight. What I won’t do though is have things happen without consequence. We are not parading bugbear PCs through the middle of mid sized cities and acting like it’s no big deal. We have to work it out. A powerful wizard recruits mercenaries of all kinds to do some dungeon delving for him? Play what you want. My players have interacted with a lizard man first mate and a hobgoblin mercenary captains son loved it so I make room for a pc like that too say aboard a ship or travelling the wilds. But for my world surely avoid creature cantinas (not because they are “wrong” but because they don’t fit what is set up. [/QUOTE]
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