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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9508941" data-attributes="member: 29398">There can be to a small extent, as abstracted by making a lot of the physical side of the character creation process random: random species, random gender, random stats, random height and weight relative to species averages, random age (within a playable range), random family elements, etc.  All of this reflects the idea that you can't choose what you're born as or what family you're born into.Previous professions, current class, etc. are things the character has had much more control over during its life up to now and thus having those chooseable by the player makes sense.By giving DMs the freedom to overrule what's in the books, isn't rule 0 supposed to take care of this?</blockquote>