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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolfwood2" data-source="post: 4445044" data-attributes="member: 39394">A player might also want to play a 30th level demigod in a 1st level game and WANT to play it BECAUSE of the consequences.  You wouldn't allow that, would you?  It's not a DM's place to judge the player's motivations for wanting to play a character.  It's only a DM's place to judge if a particular character is going to disrupt a campaign to the point of making it less fun. If a bugbear works in the context of a campaign with racial prejudice just providing an interesting roleplaying flavor, then allow it.  If a bugbear PC is going to be attacked on sight and/or the fact of his race is going to completely dominate every social encounter the PC is part of, then don't allow it. Allowing a concept in so that it can fail and you can point a finger and yell, "HA-HA!"... not cool.</blockquote>