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Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal
Yes, that's fair. The one thing under the player control is that character. That's it. I'm fine with the DM going "thematically these are the options available in the world" and restricting there, but going "I want you to purposefully all detune from where you want to play for something that is relatively easy for me to adjust to" is the DM stepping out of bounds. It's saying that they don't want to do their job (balancing the adventures to the party), and asking the entire party to give up making character they want for however long the campaign will run in order to allow the DM to slack there.So the DM's feelings about how powerful the party is are irrelevant and shouldn't be considered. I saw that you focused on player power and require the DM to adjust to them or risk being labeled as "bad". Is that fair?
Again, this is predicated on the whole group wanting to play at the same level. If the whole group was casual and the adventures were too hard, that's just as equally the DM falling down on their job.
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