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Not when I provide everything they need to make informed choices. They can certainly refuse to conform to setting expectations when they are laid out for them, let’s not twist it to try and create a “gotcha” moment. This isn’t an issue of them going in completely blind. This happens whether it...

I don’t mean opinions though. I’m not talking about subjective things, but factual stuff. It’s basically like going up to someone right after they eat a cookie, asking them why they ate the cookie, and then they look incredulous and aghast that you would say they are eating a cookie.

That is exactly it. I encounter that type of stuff all the time as well. I can’t decide if I’m crazy or the people doing it are! 😂 Like was said earlier, I don’t for a minute think anyone is doing it out of malice, but I have certainly had players outright deny they are doing things like that...

I don’t think this is true, I think I and others have made it pretty clear it’s about dissonance with the setting presented not about races different from the traditional norm. I have had settings that are very far from that traditional perspective and players STILL want to buck the trend...

I could be wrong, correct me if I am Victor, but I think he is just using the term fanfic to express his frustration to this board about the extensive character back stories. I don’t think he is saying that to them. Bold emphasis mine. I think it’s apparent that there are DMs/Players that have...

No, it's not free on Demiplane or Roll20, but at least then you aren't double-dipping since you already have it on Demiplane, that's all I meant. Not to derail the thread, but what do you find missing in Roll20 that you find in FGU? I'm not super familiar with FGU. Ah, okay, I see what you...

If you link your Demiplane and Roll20 accounts together then you can bring over stuff from Demiplane. I genuinely don't see the need for a FGU version unless you are really deeply invested in it as a VTT.

I am partially in that camp. I don't think it's so drastic as showing they have no faith in their system, but I think it was a missed opportunity to keep their game in the spotlight. I'm super excited for this book and I hope we see many more Daggerheart things.

To use your example, Drizz't was the odd person out in the party that formed and even he had a grounded reason why he was in the region and a connection to it. Another example might be the Heroes of the Lance from Dragonlance which was a diverse party as well with very exceptional individuals...

Yes, to a degree I agree with what you are saying. However, I don't feel like the characters should be so "othered" that they feel completely disconnected from the setting in play. That seems to occur quite a bit, or at least I have a perception that it does, which leads the DM to shoehorn a...

I'm only speaking for myself, but if I had a world like that, I would most likely not have Half-Orcs on that table, not because they aren't a viable option or that I wouldn't consider a player making one for a game, but more because they would most certainly be the exception rather than the rule...

I'm sure it's a combination of different factors. I think there are some players who have been building a concept and want to use it in whatever next campaign they can get into. I think there are also players that have a theme (either mechanical or fluff wise) that they build around. I think the...

I think some people think I'm waging a war against non-standard options and that's not really what I'm saying. Rather, it is that a DM can create a specific campaign and then the majority of the players want to play something off-the-wall for the sake of being different and non-homogenous with...

I want to be sure I didn't use the term "circus troupe" in some sort of way that was offensive as it was genuinely just the easiest way I could describe my thoughts on it in a succinct way. I want to make it clear that it isn't really about being a human-centric campaign, but rather for the...

I think I tried to address that in my OP. If the majority of the group is representative of the population at large in the setting/campaign's area of play then it really doesn't bother me.

I guess, for me it all comes down to genre expectations and the milleu therein. Science Fiction has a greater ability to explain diversity (thousands of inhabited planets in the Third Imperium for instance) while also providing a higher level of believability in why such diversity exists (FTL...

I get what you're saying, but I feel like what you said (bolded by me) is a little dismissive of my point of view, a view that might be held by other players as well, but they are too afraid to rock the boat. Granted, I completely understand that sometimes you have to bend to play in this...

I changed the thread title to be a little more illuminating. Sorry! That's certainly not a bad idea. Obviously it's good to lean into what the players want to do, but player agency can't just completely supplant the campaign or world that the DM wants to run just because someone wants to...

I have always felt it a little jarring when I am in a party that has characters ranging from a talking bird to a centaur with nary a traditional humanoid or human in between. It really feels like a circus troupe rather than a party of adventurers. I find that to be especially the case when none...

Having a degree in Marketing as well an MBA, it's about ROI on each marketing channel with several channels incorporated into an overall marketing strategy. What I feel that Mongoose has been missing is a multi-channel approach to meet people where they are through working with FLGSs to take a...