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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dessert Nomad" data-source="post: 7533125" data-attributes="member: 6976536">I think that is what's being put forth by the 'you can shoehorn it in, why aren't you doing that?' crowd, which you're supporting. The question keeps getting framed as is "Is it possible to somehow mangle the setting only mildly to give this one guy what he wants" without regard to the fact that doing so runs explicitly counter to what the DM (and probably other players) actually want. Phrasing like "we've established that it's possible" leads right into "so you need a really good reason not to do this" with a subtext of "you're a bad GM who's power tripping against this innocent victim if you don't do it".Assuming the worst motives is pointless, if a DM just wants to piss players off then the whole game is dysfunctional, and if it's literally the worst then he's only hosting the game to lure players into his basement so he can murder them and eat their flesh, which is way outside the scope of this argument. Assuming that a DM wants to run a game that he's stated his intent to run with the setting he's described, however, is not making a big, nor is assuming that at least some of the other players also share this vision. And observing that the gnomophile wants to play a gnome in spite of it clashing with the wants of the DM and probably other players requires no assumptions at all.</blockquote>