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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9479130" data-attributes="member: 6801228">I recently got a book from Pointy Hat, his Hexbound book for 5e. I'm not a big fan of the mechanics of it from what I saw after supporting the kickstarter, but the idea is cool. It is all about witches. Witches do not appear in the official WoTC DnD rules. In fact, quite literally if you CTRL+F for the word "witch" in the 2014 Corebooks, the only reference is "Witch Bolt" spell and a single line in the Monster manual, under scarecrows that says they can be created by Hags or Witches... but witches don't exist anywhere. So, if I wanted to include a witch in my games... is DnD 5e not including me in their target audience, since they don't include witches? Do I need them to include that, for me to decide to add witches? And... what makes the social contract at the table any less malleable than whether or not I add a witch to my game? Why would I need the books to explicitly tell me that I could make things really fun for my players if I take their suggestions and explore the stories they want to explore? Which, it does kind of tell you that in the DMG, when it goes into detail about the types of players and the things they find engaging. The point of that is to make DMs consider what they should do for player engagement. And that can include letting the player decide things about their backstory and origin.</blockquote>