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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 4004866" data-attributes="member: 3887">It's a player/group communication problem. Or they might rationalize said camel's (or dinosaur's) presence via some magical item or permanent spell effect that protects it from antithetical environmental conditions. It's absurdly easy to justify the camel (or dinosaur) in the context of your average D&D setting. The real question is, "Are you willing to do so?" Are you capable of playing well with others?When it comes right down to it, you can expend your energy trying to make the game work, or you can do the opposite. Other players are going to have their fun in their own way. Either you can accept that, and actively work with your fellow players in order to make the game as enjoyable as possible for everyone (seeing as everyone bears the responsibility for making a campaign run smoothly). Or you can rather selfishly focus on your own enjoyment (which, in this case, means dictating what kind of animal companion your fellow players can have), and put your efforts into derailing the game --or leaving, as these people did. This kind of thing will happen as long as players want different things out of the game. No amount of skillful setting design/implementation can solve what are essentially interpersonal problem. Again, seeing as it's so simple to justify the dinosaur (or camel, or Snuffleupagus, for that matter) with magic, I can't help but see this as a power issue; one (or more) players telling another what they can play, an attempt to dictate what the play experience will be, instead trying to compromise/make the best of it.  The only real solution is communication and the fostering a healthy level of mutual respect among the group. What I like to call an HTE (High-Trust Environment).</blockquote>

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