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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9442473" data-attributes="member: 6801228">I really don't know where you get this idea of the DM from, except to imagine you have had some very overly strict DMs. Quite often my approach when asked &quot;can I do...&quot; is to respond with a &quot;well, let's see... does this work for what you are thinking of?&quot; I remember quite clearly a woman brand new to DnD who wanted to play a Kitsune. Myself and the DM for that game didn't shut her down with &quot;No, you can't&quot; we instead looked to the options. Did she want to play a shifter? Could Tabaxi be reflavored into what she wanted? We ended up settling on a Custom Lineage using the Fey-Touched feat, which gave her a connection to the Fey she was very excited about. I suppose you could argue that we said no, because a custom lineage isn't specifically a Kitsune... but that gets into a weird space of &quot;what counts as fulfilling the fantasy&quot;. Mechanical representation of a story is a very flexible thing. And frankly, NO ONE, not a single person I have seen on any platform, has stated they will not disallow Custom Backgrounds. No one. The only discussion of Custom Backgrounds is how upset people are that it is in the DMG. I see that as a sign that, they are going to be pretty widely adopted.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 9442473, member: 6801228"] I really don't know where you get this idea of the DM from, except to imagine you have had some very overly strict DMs. Quite often my approach when asked "can I do..." is to respond with a "well, let's see... does this work for what you are thinking of?" I remember quite clearly a woman brand new to DnD who wanted to play a Kitsune. Myself and the DM for that game didn't shut her down with "No, you can't" we instead looked to the options. Did she want to play a shifter? Could Tabaxi be reflavored into what she wanted? We ended up settling on a Custom Lineage using the Fey-Touched feat, which gave her a connection to the Fey she was very excited about. I suppose you could argue that we said no, because a custom lineage isn't specifically a Kitsune... but that gets into a weird space of "what counts as fulfilling the fantasy". Mechanical representation of a story is a very flexible thing. And frankly, NO ONE, not a single person I have seen on any platform, has stated they will not disallow Custom Backgrounds. No one. The only discussion of Custom Backgrounds is how upset people are that it is in the DMG. I see that as a sign that, they are going to be pretty widely adopted. [/QUOTE]

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