GMforPowergamers
Legend
has anyone said that? has anyone said 'every single book, every single class, every single race MUST be allowed'?No, I genuinely don't get why you think it is a false equivalency. What's the difference? If I decide to run my setting using D&D, it seems I am, according to some, required to allow any PC option WotC has decided to print for that game.
cause I missed that...
now I keep saying if you say no to a basic phb combo the player is both free to ask why and if your answer doesn't satisfy them not only can they leave but so too can your other players...
THB I would most likely not show up with a half orc (I don't play many half orcs and I know if we do DL there are not orcs I will most likely want to be a 'dark' elf wizard anyway) but if a new player who has no idea sits down with a half orc and you are rude or not able to communicate a reason WHY he can't just play his halforc... I am going to serieusly reconsider if I want to play with you. The ability to roll with crazy things players do and the ablity to roll with weird things players ask is like in my top 5 DM skills I require to play in a game...
well Gurps is VERY different, but off hand if you hand me a book and I make a character from that book THEN you tell me 'no not that' I am going to be at least a little miffed... if you don't have a reason (one I can get behind) then I will be alot miffed.So if I decide to run the game using GURPS why doesn't the same apply? And how does this work with homebrew?
the better analogy is being told "Hey we want to play a 90's era Vampire the Masqurade, but Cameriala only... and a player shows up with a tremere and another a venture and another a brujha and the 4th with a toradoar and being told "this world doesn't have tremere in it" and when you ask why the answer is give "Cause mages are too smart and the tremere are dumb"
or worse yet (and this is an example red flag from one fo the story teller books) if they say "sorry eric you are too dumb to play a tremere"
again, if you have a reason, that reason can be given and evaluated by the group as a whole...Also, IIRC you have your Arabian Nights style setting that you seem to be very proud of. Would you really include in it any sapient player species a player would request, regardless of how badly it clashes with the intended theme and tone?