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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 7494494" data-attributes="member: 6799649">I invariably try to avoid treading on other players' toes this way, and encourage others to do the same, by the simple expedient of getting the players together as soon as the new campaign is announced and discuss who wants to play what type of character. That way we can ensure a well-balanced party, or even a deliberately unbalanced party (as opposed to an inadvertently unbalanced one).If a player replaces one PC with another, that player will already take into account the party make-up so can choose a class/race/etc. accordingly.If a new player wants to join, they aren't told what class they MUST play, they are told what the rest of the party already is.Once I was dragged to a university RPG club night. He attended that university as a mature student, while I never attended any university. We looked for a game to join, and the only one available was a game of Basic. Now this was around the late '90s, and up to that point had played 1e and 2e AD&D for about 20 years, but never actually played Basic or the other BECMI set. After all, I started with ADVANCED D&D, why would I go and play the training wheels version?I fancied playing an elf, which I knew was both race AND class in this game (unlike in REAL D&D!), but one player (who had been playing this campaign for a while) was already playing an elf. Not wanting to tread on her toes, I thought I'd ask her what weapon she was using so that I could deliberately choose something different. When I asked, her reply was, "I don't know, but it does 1d8 damage".But the point is, this is not a game RULE! It is etiquette. I can understand why someone would be upset if my PC took their party status as 'best X' in the group away. But I do not understand why a player playing, say, a rogue would be upset if my PC was a fighter/mage when they would not be upset if I were playing a fighter or a mage.So why is my preference to play a multiclass PC less valid than theirs? Why am I not allowed to play my preference but they are allowed to play theirs? Why would it upset them?</blockquote>

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