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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Space Jockey" data-source="post: 6818256" data-attributes="member: 6801254">My biggest deal breaker is probably playing in a setting like the Realms or Dragonlance. Nothing makes me snore more than vanilla, Tolkein-esque fantasy. That being said, I do like interesting or cool stories, so I can overlook the standard heroic fantasy cliches if the campaign hook or premise is appealing enough. Some parts of Forgotten Realms are cool like Kara-Tur, Al-Qadim, Mulhorand, Netheril...basically anywhere that isn't cliche "Western European medieval society", so those are excluded.The rest are not really deal breakers. I won't walk from games if they happen, but just things that make my appendix twist: -DMs who try to go out of their way to make us feel bad for certain villains. There's a difference between making them complex, multi-faceted individuals, and dramatically revealing that the lich had a puppy orphanage all along and we just killed him. Also, sometimes I do want two-dimensional villains dag nabbit. Sometimes I want the mummy lord to be an evil bastard who I want to kill, not feel sorry for.-Not only do I not mind firearms or technology that is more advanced than the European Middle Ages in my fantasy, I prefer them, even if they're merely an emerging force. That being said, you should probably say that those elements exist before the horde of hobgoblins all suddenly pull out blackpowder weapons. Or at least give a good in-game reason why our characters wouldn't know about them....Yes, that last one was suspiciously specific. I will never trust a hobgoblin again.</blockquote>

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