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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8688179" data-attributes="member: 6915329"><p>You're assuming that there's "special" pressure to use Tasha's or whatever rules exist.</p><p></p><p>There isn't. Just the standard amount you get when players find something shiny and new. If your players find a new archetype from a third party source that they want to play, do you consider <em>that </em>to be pressure? Are your players like really toxic about forcing you to acquiesce to their demands or something?</p><p></p><p>There is absolutely nothing forcing you to use any particular rules at your table. You are free to allow Tasha's or disallow it. You are free to allow the races in MMotM or disallow it. If you don't like the way you think 5e is heading, you are free to come up with your own house rules, play any other edition of D&D, or move to Level Up, Pathfinder, or any other of the thousands of other RPGs out there.</p><p></p><p>Literally <em>all </em>the rules are optional. Even if 6e comes out and the Tasha's rule is the norm--which I hope not; I love floating ASIs but I find the way they did the customizable lineages to be incredibly boring--you can still say "nope, sorry, in my game, you use <em>these </em>rules" and hand them binder or house rules.</p><p></p><p>Don't be surprised if not everyone <em>likes </em>that and wants to play with you as DM--unless you consider <em>that </em>to be "pressure."</p><p></p><p>Seriously, I have to wonder if people put up this much of a fuss when suddenly non-humans didn't have level limits and could join classes that were previously forbidden to them. Dwarf wizards and half-orc paladins! I'd consider that to be a <em>much </em>more radical change than letting you stick a +2 in a different stat, or even the build-your-own-race thing, since opening up all classes to all races truly broke down what it meant to be a member of a race.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8688179, member: 6915329"] You're assuming that there's "special" pressure to use Tasha's or whatever rules exist. There isn't. Just the standard amount you get when players find something shiny and new. If your players find a new archetype from a third party source that they want to play, do you consider [I]that [/I]to be pressure? Are your players like really toxic about forcing you to acquiesce to their demands or something? There is absolutely nothing forcing you to use any particular rules at your table. You are free to allow Tasha's or disallow it. You are free to allow the races in MMotM or disallow it. If you don't like the way you think 5e is heading, you are free to come up with your own house rules, play any other edition of D&D, or move to Level Up, Pathfinder, or any other of the thousands of other RPGs out there. Literally [I]all [/I]the rules are optional. Even if 6e comes out and the Tasha's rule is the norm--which I hope not; I love floating ASIs but I find the way they did the customizable lineages to be incredibly boring--you can still say "nope, sorry, in my game, you use [I]these [/I]rules" and hand them binder or house rules. Don't be surprised if not everyone [I]likes [/I]that and wants to play with you as DM--unless you consider [I]that [/I]to be "pressure." Seriously, I have to wonder if people put up this much of a fuss when suddenly non-humans didn't have level limits and could join classes that were previously forbidden to them. Dwarf wizards and half-orc paladins! I'd consider that to be a [I]much [/I]more radical change than letting you stick a +2 in a different stat, or even the build-your-own-race thing, since opening up all classes to all races truly broke down what it meant to be a member of a race. [/QUOTE]
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