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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elric" data-source="post: 5054430" data-attributes="member: 1139">Direct mechanical benefits probably aren't a good idea.  If you don't mind having some of the other classes, saying "I'd like people to play [these classes] and stay away from [these other ones] unless you feel really strongly about it" might do the trick on its own (e.g., get you 4 out of 5 Martial/Barbarian PCs).If you don't want anyone to play those classes, just ban them explicitly.  There may be a coordination problem here, as you may be fine with one PC that doesn't fit the mold, but 2 or 3 people want to play PCs of those classes. If so, you could hold an auction for the right to play the mold-breaking PC, the proceeds to go to the "provide food for gaming night" fund.  One mechanism is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey_auction" target="_blank">Vickrey auction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a> (everyone writes down the amount they'd pay to be the one to play the arcane character, then you reveal all of the pieces of paper and the person who wrote the highest number gets to play the arcane character, and pays $ equal to the bid of the second-highest person).  Problem solved! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Edit- I realize that the above auction format doesn't have its usual nice property (that your strategy should be to bid your valuation), because players have an incentive to make each other pay more.  So a better thing to do would probably be a "sealed price, first-bid auction": everyone writes down a $ amount, then reveal them, and the winner pays his own bid.</blockquote>

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