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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8119900" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>Given as the DM may well have spent a year or more putting that campaign and-or setting together before even starting to recruit players I'd say she's well within her rights to largely say "my way or the highway" when it comes to setting-based questions. You want to play an Elf in a setting that has none? See ya. You want to play a Viking Thor Cleric in a setting that has no Norse culture in it anywhere? At best it'd be a one-off from off world, but most likely: see ya.</p><p></p><p>In my experience players are almost always very accepting of hard bans like this. Where the problems always arise is when there's any ambiguity or gray area, such as the 'religion must be important' example.</p><p></p><p>That said, there's a corollary area where DMs do sometimes run aground, and that's the concept of "if it can exist as an NPC and that NPC is the same as it'd be were it a book-legal PC, I should be able to play one". For example, if PC-style Wizards exist in the setting the DM had better have an ironclad-solid reason why they're banned as PCs.</p><p></p><p>Another thing that IME never raises any concern are temporary restrictions. For example, in my current campaign I made everyone start with Human PCs only, and made it clear up front that PCs of other races could come in once the party/story moved out of the Human-only land the campaign started in. Players were 100% on board with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8119900, member: 29398"] Given as the DM may well have spent a year or more putting that campaign and-or setting together before even starting to recruit players I'd say she's well within her rights to largely say "my way or the highway" when it comes to setting-based questions. You want to play an Elf in a setting that has none? See ya. You want to play a Viking Thor Cleric in a setting that has no Norse culture in it anywhere? At best it'd be a one-off from off world, but most likely: see ya. In my experience players are almost always very accepting of hard bans like this. Where the problems always arise is when there's any ambiguity or gray area, such as the 'religion must be important' example. That said, there's a corollary area where DMs do sometimes run aground, and that's the concept of "if it can exist as an NPC and that NPC is the same as it'd be were it a book-legal PC, I should be able to play one". For example, if PC-style Wizards exist in the setting the DM had better have an ironclad-solid reason why they're banned as PCs. Another thing that IME never raises any concern are temporary restrictions. For example, in my current campaign I made everyone start with Human PCs only, and made it clear up front that PCs of other races could come in once the party/story moved out of the Human-only land the campaign started in. Players were 100% on board with it. [/QUOTE]
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