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Burning Questions: Why Do DMs Limit Official WOTC Material?
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<blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 7762644" data-attributes="member: 1210"><p>Let's say as an example that the DM is running a humans-only for pcs campaign. Do you really think he's obligated to allow a player to make a pc that isn't human? </p><p></p><p>It's not necessarily about inflexibility. Not every piece of material fits in every campaign. Some campaigns simply don't have race x or monster y in them. That's the DM's purview to decide. In others, a given race may not fit for pcs. If you want to play a Drow pc, you need to do it in a campaign that isn't mine, because in my game, Drow are monsters, not pcs. Likewise, if you want to play a changeling, my game is not the place where it is going to happen, because they aren't around in my game. I'm not going to shoehorn a race in to satisfy a given player. The integrity of the setting is more important than catering to one player's desires. Sorry, but not all DMs or campaigns give that level of narrative control to the players. If that doesn't sit well with someone, I'm not holding a gun to their head and forcing them to play in my game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="the Jester, post: 7762644, member: 1210"] Let's say as an example that the DM is running a humans-only for pcs campaign. Do you really think he's obligated to allow a player to make a pc that isn't human? It's not necessarily about inflexibility. Not every piece of material fits in every campaign. Some campaigns simply don't have race x or monster y in them. That's the DM's purview to decide. In others, a given race may not fit for pcs. If you want to play a Drow pc, you need to do it in a campaign that isn't mine, because in my game, Drow are monsters, not pcs. Likewise, if you want to play a changeling, my game is not the place where it is going to happen, because they aren't around in my game. I'm not going to shoehorn a race in to satisfy a given player. The integrity of the setting is more important than catering to one player's desires. Sorry, but not all DMs or campaigns give that level of narrative control to the players. If that doesn't sit well with someone, I'm not holding a gun to their head and forcing them to play in my game. [/QUOTE]
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