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yes, both the player and DM are not a good fit if they want very different things. Either one is free to find a better match

How is... Player 1 picks and really enjoys playing a dwarf. Player 2 picks and really enjoys playing a gnome. Player 3 picks and really...

Discussing cultural sensitivity is very relevant. Discussing your personal spiritual beliefs is not. If you have a problem with the...

So what. Having some ultra remote possible connection does not make them Norse elves. They are not Norse at all. They are D&D elves...

Not Norse ones. Mordenkainen's has not been overriden by 5.5e elven lore yet, so the lore in it still applies. If and when a new book...

Then I still don't know what you're trying to get at. Even though we can never know what an accurate depiction would look like, it...

Yes, and to date, none of them are Norse. We did get Norse dwarves in 3.5e, though. Sure, but it has not done so for elves. Doing so...

I agree to a certain point and we can never truly understand how a different species would think. We certainly don't know (or perhaps...

That's pretty cool if that's how you run them in your game, but when folks are talking about elves in a D&D thread, typically they are...

That's pretty dismissive. What is trivial to one person is major to another and vice versa. It helps to keep that in mind in...

To me when I see "dislike" that goes above and beyond "aesthetic preference." I have aesthetic preferences. Bending the vast majority...

up to the DM, same as the tortle. I don’t think that something arbitrarily making the cut to be in the PHB1 rather than the PHB2...

If the player knows the DM doesn't like dragonborn to the point that they are not in game and wants to play one anyway, that says a lot...

In my game dragonborn are not low power. They are about a CR 3 or 4 and not at all appropriate for PC play.

a world, with a distinct theme, and tone, and vibe. any mood the GM is aiming for, asking what 'curation' is aiming for is like asking...