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I agree that as a player, if you agree to a curated setting, you're being problematic if you later on try to renegotiate that curation...

I don't think it has to be a weakness. It can be a weakness, for example a beginning DM might want to keep things more narrow...

Because the rest of Eberron is a fun and interesting premise to him. If I'm running Eberron(Bleh!) or even the Forgotton Realms(where I...

Why is there this persistent idea that DMs are forcing players to join games? DM builds world, proposes campaign. Puts guidelines up...

Dalamar is very consistently portrayed as a Silvanesti outcast, except for one of the Wizard's three articles where Greenwood has him...

That person was wrong. And now you are wrong. Theme/premise isn't based on the level of detail. Dark Sun has a tight theme/premise...

I'm not sure what you're reading, but in Dragonlance dark elves were just surface elves who were evil. No underground. No underwater.

I read mythology books when I was 8 or 9. When I hit junior high and high school years I read much more about the mythologies of many...

Yeah. They veered towards Tolkien with their elves.

Well, "dark elves" means something different in Krynn. Dalamar is a "dark elf" despite his fair skin and coming from the surface elven...

No. Dark elves in Dragonlance were just evil elves. Dalamar was one.

Have you considered that asking them to create a character that fits the setting is unfair though?

IDK, I have never experienced anything like that nor have I seen many DMs talk about their game worlds like that. I would guess you are...

What you say above is impossible, so cannot be true. Even the Forgotten Realms, which has more printed material detailing it out than...

It is if they get elf abilities. If its cosmetic only and you are a human with human abilities and have fake elf ears, it would not be.