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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7249586" data-attributes="member: 1465">If you don't like all the options, don't use them all. What's the problem?I also do not like (at all) the idea that I should allocate a faction in the world for each option. I totally hated the tone of presentation of prestige classes in 3e which always had to say &quot;the &lt;insert absurdly narrow PrCl here&gt; are typically of this alignment, mostly humans but also some elves and halflings, while dwarves are rare and gnomes practically non-existant...&quot;. In most cases when a player of mine chose a PrCl in 3e she was going to be the only one in the world. I do the same for monsters actually, many of them are one-of-a-kind, regardless of what the MM says.My typical approach is to let the players choose what they want (at least from the PHB), and then decide that their choice is what exists in the world. So if they pick up &quot;red dragon sorcerer&quot; that means it exists, but it doesn't imply the existance of dragon sorcerers of any other color.But you can of course make a pre-emptive definition of what exists in your fantasy world, and the rest just doesn't.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 7249586, member: 1465"] If you don't like all the options, don't use them all. What's the problem? I also do not like (at all) the idea that I should allocate a faction in the world for each option. I totally hated the tone of presentation of prestige classes in 3e which always had to say "the <insert absurdly narrow PrCl here> are typically of this alignment, mostly humans but also some elves and halflings, while dwarves are rare and gnomes practically non-existant...". In most cases when a player of mine chose a PrCl in 3e she was going to be the [I]only one in the world[/I]. I do the same for monsters actually, many of them are one-of-a-kind, regardless of what the MM says. My typical approach is to let the players choose what they want (at least from the PHB), and [I]then[/I] decide that their choice is what exists in the world. So if they pick up "red dragon sorcerer" that means it exists, but it doesn't imply the existance of dragon sorcerers of any other color. But you can of course make a pre-emptive definition of what exists in your fantasy world, and the rest just doesn't. [/QUOTE]

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