Charlaquin
Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
But point out that Free Parking doesn’t do anything special or that you can’t buy houses or hotels if there aren’t any of those pieces left, and people give you funny looks, or else protest, “yeah, sure, but nobody plays that way.”It's a board game. I have never seen someone throw away the boot in Monopoly for "reasons". Yet this is what I see in most discord servers in the LFG section.
Dubious board game analogies aside, excluding PHB options is perfectly normal and even explicitly encouraged within the rules themselves. There’s a reason races are separated between “Common” and “Uncommon,” and that several rules are clearly marked as “Variant” and/or “Optional.” The baseline expectation in 5e is that the DM will pick and choose which options are available and which are not, possibly with the players’ input.