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Nobody is stopping you from playing those others systems while D&D remains undestroyed. Perhaps let D&D be for those great many players...

I'm perfectly find with the roles of the different people at the table that have been there for half a century.

Can I play an aspect of Tiamat? That sounds fun, think of all the arguments I could get in with myself! ;)

Creating what? Adding a brand new species to the world? Anything else like classes from some source I don't allow, guns, magic spells...

if the DM has objections then yes, otherwise no, same as with the turtle if you are not needing to find a compromise, sure, and by that...

No. D&D remains a toolkit. If not, then it will loose market share. The fact that it can be used to run a variety of games and...

Tone, genre, and setting coherence aren’t minor knobs for a lot of DMs; they’re often a primary source of enjoyment in running a game...

If I allow a tortle then I need to allow any other species someone wants to play. I don't want to do that but I am willing to give the...

Best to stay away from personal assumptions and attacks. As far as I can tell we area all talking hypotheticals here

Good grief. A "museum tourist"? You know nothing about my games. I run a very open game where the direction of the campaign is always...

It is one you created though. If the reason to play the tortle is the muses are guiding me and that is all I will play. Which is a...

Nobody that acted in that manner would be allowed at my table. The players don't get to run roughshod over the DM. The DM doesn't get...

It is a way to get a tortle to the world, but I don't think that is not a compromise to a DM that doesn't want a tortle in their world...

That's a whole lot of words to say "The player decides what options are allowed." I see no room for player compromise. If you're that...

I think that is a valid reason. However, it also seems one where there is no room for compromise if the DM's reason is this world...