As a player I do consider the world when when I make my character. It is in fact very important. What makes it so important is that the DM works with us to help build the world around our characters. It is it his or her world, but our shared world. That is the flexibility that builds buy-in IMO
I think that they are just pushing back on DMs using the excuse of “logic” for not having racial diversity. Preferences are fine, just don’t try to mask them behind logic. Just be upfront that you prefer a more mundane setting
See, I prefer my world to feel as much like a real place as possible, and too much stuff added to the setting for a PCs backstory breaks that for me. I know it's hyperbolic, but I certainly don't need the ability to shape reality to buy into the real world, nor any fictional world depicted in my favorite stories. As a player, the more agency outside my character I have, the less I feel immersed in the fantasy. That includes worldbuilding when I'm not the DM.
I was just interpreting someone else’s words - which I admit is usually a bad idea!
I mean, this is the fundamental disagreement point. One side says “Why does the DM have to be the one to bend?” The other side says “Why wouldn’t the DM want to bend?” And we’ll argue this ad nauseum because there’s no right answer.
That's why I use so many races. It's easier (o me) to think of how different races would come into conflict than slightly different factions of the same race.
See, this particular rationale I disagree with. It’s logical to assume in a world with 60 races that tolerance is just as likely to be the norm as intolerance.
It doesn't make sense to me either.
Yep! I live in Seattle, and diversity is the norm here. We have furries and lolitas and cowboys and drag queens and people with parrots in coffee shops and it's normal. I've also lived in a place with little diversity and it never stopped creeping me out.
