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X-card subjects like torture and slavery, versus ancestries like tortles and centaurs are wildly differing topics; conflating the two...

Remember, as soon as anyone on the thread is even slightly uncomfortable, drop it immediately. :)

Exactly. No one, as far as I can tell, is asking GMs to suffer through a campaign full of things they hate. Nobody. There was that one...

I mean, if I was designing a setting without knowing who the players were (I wouldn't, but hypothetically), I would make the setting as...

Every game has totally new players? You don't keep the same players from campaign to campaign? The option remains open but unused. But...

Yep. Forgotten Realms is a map, a bunch of place names, and occasional pieces of lore, assuming you're running it in the early 16th...

I can't recall ever having to veto a concept. They roll numbers that night and then think about their character while I work on the game.

Even better then, sounds like a good collection of enthusiastic players.

If that’s the case, then of course you have much wider latitude when DMing to veto concepts. You’re not enforcing your personal...

And then when new players join, they're spoon-fed everything regardless of whether they need it (as new players, they probably don't...

I think that's true of many players. They lack the language to express what they like. I'm sure if I asked all my players what they...

I mean, I know my players over the years and what they tend towards. One player always gravitates to the Big Damn Hero. His wife plays...

Over 10% is the core 4, plus half-elf, Tiefling, and warforged. That’s a solid PHB.

By far my most frequent pick over the years were elves. And I have a soft spot for halflings, or hobbits as we prefer calling them at...

The sad truth is that players who don’t want to contribute require games with large amounts of GM force to make something workable. A...