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<blockquote data-quote="DonTadow" data-source="post: 2720870" data-attributes="member: 22622">OK, here's the latest problem with my problem player. Her cleric was not working out.&nbsp; She was completely taking advantage of the Elements of Magic point based system I use for magic so we scrapped her character and she developed a rogue/ranger/bounty hunter.&nbsp; The race of the character is a dark elf.&nbsp; However, I am using the elfclash setting for the elven portion of the game, whereas the dark elve's are a completely different race than the drow.&nbsp; The dark elves in the game have a heavy tan.&nbsp; They've been enslaved by the gilden elves for some time.&nbsp; The drow in the game have now begun enslavhign the dark elves, so a distinction between teh two has become very importanat.&nbsp; I've explained this thouroughly to the party.&nbsp; In my campaign, characters pic or draw portraits of their character.&nbsp; Despite explaining asclearely as I could what the Dark Elves look like (African-American Elves essentially), she sends me pics that are completely off the mark.&nbsp; She's sent me two drow and two normal looking elves. I told her that she'd have to pic pictures that are more in flavor with how the dark elves are described. I declined the pics based on my experience with previous DMs.&nbsp; I remember one DM I wanted to play a johnny depp like halflings, so i literally picked a picture of johnny depp for my character.&nbsp; He declined it telling me that it didnt fit with the fantasy of the campaiagn.&nbsp; So he sent me a pic and it worked for the character.&nbsp; I was hapy and he was happy. With my player I did the same.&nbsp; After 5 emails of correspondance and she &quot;still not getting it&quot; I sent her a pic of the dozen dark elf invisions I have (I am collecting them for various NPCs).&nbsp; She told me it didn't fit the flavor of the character.&nbsp; I told her that we'll use this pic untils he finds something else.&nbsp; Now its a month later, and her play style (let me see what I can get away with and I know when I reach my limits when the DM says something) is annoying me. I have unpurposely stopped hiding my annoyance with her (no you can not shoot into complete darkness without penalties).&nbsp; She sends me another round of pics, none of them dark elves.&nbsp; Part of me just wants to say yes to one to get on with it and compensate for me hating her asa player.&nbsp; But as a DM, I feel I should stick to my guns for the flavor of the world.BIG QUESTION AND ISSUE</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DonTadow, post: 2720870, member: 22622"] OK, here's the latest problem with my problem player. Her cleric was not working out. She was completely taking advantage of the Elements of Magic point based system I use for magic so we scrapped her character and she developed a rogue/ranger/bounty hunter. The race of the character is a dark elf. However, I am using the elfclash setting for the elven portion of the game, whereas the dark elve's are a completely different race than the drow. The dark elves in the game have a heavy tan. They've been enslaved by the gilden elves for some time. The drow in the game have now begun enslavhign the dark elves, so a distinction between teh two has become very importanat. I've explained this thouroughly to the party. In my campaign, characters pic or draw portraits of their character. Despite explaining asclearely as I could what the Dark Elves look like (African-American Elves essentially), she sends me pics that are completely off the mark. She's sent me two drow and two normal looking elves. I told her that she'd have to pic pictures that are more in flavor with how the dark elves are described. I declined the pics based on my experience with previous DMs. I remember one DM I wanted to play a johnny depp like halflings, so i literally picked a picture of johnny depp for my character. He declined it telling me that it didnt fit with the fantasy of the campaiagn. So he sent me a pic and it worked for the character. I was hapy and he was happy. With my player I did the same. After 5 emails of correspondance and she "still not getting it" I sent her a pic of the dozen dark elf invisions I have (I am collecting them for various NPCs). She told me it didn't fit the flavor of the character. I told her that we'll use this pic untils he finds something else. Now its a month later, and her play style (let me see what I can get away with and I know when I reach my limits when the DM says something) is annoying me. I have unpurposely stopped hiding my annoyance with her (no you can not shoot into complete darkness without penalties). She sends me another round of pics, none of them dark elves. Part of me just wants to say yes to one to get on with it and compensate for me hating her asa player. But as a DM, I feel I should stick to my guns for the flavor of the world. BIG QUESTION AND ISSUE [/QUOTE]

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