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As the one running the game? Yes. Or one of them can run the game. Its that easy, has always been. Its wild this thread continues.

Interesting. My goals as a player are entirely different from yours. I don't want to "tell my story about my character." (If I wanted to...

For some people anthropomorphic races are a step too far for them to enjoy. That doesn't mean that other areas of the game will be the...

You say that as if it was not already answered many times by multiple posters. Adding a tortle to a world they do not fit into causes...

Some players likely do care, but looking at r/LFG and my own experience, I don’t think players reliably self-select away from games with...

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

But you're missing the point of curation, part of the joy of a curated setting is the increased versimilitude from removing thematically...

"There is not tortles in this world" is a campaign premise that is incompatible with tortles. That's it, it doesn't need any more...

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

The "half-orc" is an error in a book produced during an era of badly edited and rushed works. In the world as a whole "goblin blood" is...

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

Yes, the person running the game and the setting is given a lot of power, because if they don't have it, the game falls apart.

Does every character in this world come with a pre-loaded knowledge chip about the whole world? Having a fully realised setting doesn't...

If you don't like my limits don't join my game. Sometimes there is no compromise.

I can compress all the relevant campaign guide information into a single wiki page, including allowed species etc. You mean like orcs...