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<blockquote data-quote="Sundragon2012" data-source="post: 3816010" data-attributes="member: 7624">If you allow the options because you want to, you are acting as a DM. If you are allowing the splatbook options despite the fact you don't want to, then you are not acting as a DM but as merely a rules arbiter who simply gives the ok to everything in print because it is in print. You are in the former camp. One set freely chooses, the other feels powerless to say no.I compromise all the time when it suits my game and when it helps my players recognize their character vision. There is a balance of course. However, those DMs who feel obligated to allow every splatbook class, race, mechanic, piece of lore, etc. into their games no matter that they feel that ultimately its against the best interest of their game are the squishy and the spineless. I don't even blame DMs who feel disempowered, I understand why. The entire thrust of 3e's maketing philosophy was to market to players and in so doing downplayed the DMs role as final authority in his game. This was a marketing decision that was good for making money, but made many DMs feel powerless.Sundragon</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sundragon2012, post: 3816010, member: 7624"] If you allow the options because [I]you want to[/I], you are acting as a DM. If you are allowing the splatbook options despite the fact you don't want to, then you are not acting as a DM but as merely a rules arbiter who simply gives the ok to everything in print because it is in print. You are in the former camp. One set freely chooses, the other feels powerless to say no. I compromise all the time when it suits my game and when it helps my players recognize their character vision. There is a balance of course. However, those DMs who feel obligated to allow every splatbook class, race, mechanic, piece of lore, etc. into their games no matter that they feel that ultimately its against the best interest of their game are the squishy and the spineless. I don't even blame DMs who feel disempowered, I understand why. The entire thrust of 3e's maketing philosophy was to market to players and in so doing downplayed the DMs role as final authority in his game. This was a marketing decision that was good for making money, but made many DMs feel powerless. Sundragon [/QUOTE]

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