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How does PLAYERS not being able to tell other PLAYERS what to run, equal "DM does not have the right to not permit things in the campaign"? Really try READING things instead of constructing strawman arguments in your head that only exist to prove to yourself that you're right. No. Try reading...

I'm still waiting for you to post where someone has said that you HAVE to permit ANYTHING.

I've been in Mallus's campaign for 3.5 years now. I've seen him say "No" and "I'm not really comfortable with you doing/being able to do X. Please pick something different/We need to change this." He also listens to the players when they have complaints or are unhappy about how X, Y or Z are...

Try reading my other posts I already addressed these points.

Yes, of course that has to be the case because arctic survival skills translate so well into those required to survive in malarial ridden sections of africa. So there won't be any difficulties for them surviving in africa. The point Mallus was trying to make is that you don't have to be...

But they aren't exactly either that wonderous or dramatic compared to a lot of the creatures in D&D. They're basically just big cool looking lizards. When you're going up against Demons, Far Realm (Cthulhu), rust monsters, Ilithid and enormous fire/acid/cold etc Breathing Dragons. A T-Rex just...

No Sayans! That sucks. How can you get even more monty haul if you can't keep going up Super Sayan levels? Obviously you are having Bad/Wrong/Fun.

Sorry I got used to arguing with RC. Missed the "I agree" at the start. Mea culpa.

Africa wasn't that far from Europe and animals were shipped from there to Europe as far back as at least the Roman empire. So, yes it makes an equal amount of sense as a dinosaur. Which isn't that much more fantastical than an Elephant, to someone who has never been more than a few miles from...

Hitting is not usually the problem for archers. The original Post and the title discusses the problems he has inflicting enough damage (especially to bypass DR). So you are talking about blowing 25k out of the total wealth for a 10th lv character, which is a considerable chunk of the character's...

You know I'm pretty sure that the Guardian Angels (The PCs in Shil's campaign in which Cedric is also an NPC) would be willing to give Cedric a hand in a situation like this.

Except that in 3.5 they're 25k gold, which is horribly overpriced IMHO and they only give a +1 to damage. Given that a bow with a total of +4 enchantments (Say +1, Acid, Holy) is only 32k gold. It just simply isn't worth it.

Yes. I have no problems with any of this. Though I (obviously) disagree that the dino necessarily has to be something that exotic. Basically I prefer a more relaxed and laid back kind of campaign where nobody is going to throw a hissy fit over something deviating from their conception of how...

What about a cheetah is so inherently unreasonable for an Eskimo campaign? Aside from the fact that they don't live in the arctic in our world? Are you incapable of "filing off the serial numbers" a bit and giving the player a creature functionally identical to a cheetah, with slightly different...

Thing is, this is not nor was it every portrayed as a "Conan"-ish setting, except in your example. The OP at no point described the campaign as one in which "Dinosaurs Don't Exist", it was simply one in which the DM had not explicitly defined it as one in which they do exist. You are setting up...

So your argument is then that dinos are so utterly bizarre. So beyond the pale and incomprehensible, that unless there is extraordinary attention drawn to their existence and extraordinary justification provided, that they can't be used without destroying any and all plausibility for the...

Except that they're not in the "Latest MM". They're in the basic MM. They're in the SRD. They're on the Summon monster lists. They aren't something that suddenly sprang out of nothingness. They only are regarded as "odd" or "unusual" because that's how they are in our experience in our world...

We're talking about a world where it is quite conceivable that every so often a gate to the plane of "Creatures The DM Didn't Think Of Right Off The Bat" opens up and kicks out a couple of creatures that either weren't found in that area or would die off shortly. Our world is also not one where...

A large part of my point with regards to this is that, we are not talking about our earth and things don't have to exactly match the patterns and relationships that we have experienced here. Just because on our earth, dinos got wiped out at one point, doesn't mean that has to be the case in...

All this is true, but at the same time "not everything published can be found in every region." does not have to equal "Anything published cannot be found in any particular region." Dinosaurs covered a wide range of environments and thus can plausibly be found in an equally wide range of...