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Assumptions: 1) All characters get a level 1 Origin feat. A lot of "near-human" races and mixed-ancestry options will be available as Origin feats. 2) Races with strongly realized cultural backgrounds will start with an "X culture" feat expressing that background; that feat can be swapped for...

Comic books and graphic novels in general. I have no problem with the superhero genre, but I would rather savor a novel for 5 hours than a comic book for 20 minutes at similar price points.

X-card subjects like torture and slavery, versus ancestries like tortles and centaurs are wildly differing topics; conflating the two will just make the subject unable to be discussed.

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

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 open and approachable as possible.

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 century DR time frame. You want to stick in half-illithid dwarves or a colony of tortles in the Moonsea, that's absolutely trivial.

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 desires, you’re enforcing the agreed upon gaming contract.

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

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 lot of people orient themselves around GM centrality precisely because they’ve only run for uninterested players.

I'm actually more excited for a Mistborn movie than for the Stormlight TV show. Even while reading Mistborn Book 1, I kept thinking about how intensely cinematics the action scenes were. Everything Allomancy does, with increased strength, senses, emotion-affecting, and metal telekinesis, is...

I'm happy to talk about another topic. What are you interested in today?

Other than @Remathilis's post at 691, I don't see a ton of example cases of how people are treating each other. Can you elaborate?

It is, admittedly, a fine line to walk.

I mean, I would do that too. But I'm strongly in favor of the idea that any participant should strive to be accommodating. If I'm the GM, I accommodate my players. If I'm a player, I accommodate my GM. Just be chill. Your PC isn't that important. The setting isn't that important. Getting...

They shouldn't be defining a setting with strict curation before doing collaboration with the players that will be consuming that setting, no. Have a rough outline, meet with the players to see what they're interested in, and then you flesh out more details. Nothing is a bigger red flag for...

The game's been out for 12 years (and the D&D milieu for a lot more). All of us have a ton of character ideas floating around in our heads. If I have a cool concept for a halfling sorcerer in my head, and I get invited to a D&D game with a new GM, I'm allowed to be surprised (and possibly...

All of my posts on this subject indicate that I agree with you here.

Why would it change just because I didn't prep it beforehand? Once something is introduced in the fiction, it's fixed into the setting. That's pretty core to pretty much all RPGs. Having a setting bible doesn't help me be more consistent.

That doesn't conflict with the default assumption of the 5e multiversal setting being cosmopolitan. If I was going to a 5e table full of randos (which sounds awful), my assumption would be that 5e official material is on the table unless the GM says otherwise.