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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwoSix" data-source="post: 9275323" data-attributes="member: 205">Because "pretty much whatever" encapsulates the 99% percent of stuff I'm OK with, and the 1% I'll need to take a firmer stance on.I allow "pretty much whatever".  I think other people, as DMs, should be open to generally saying yes to novel expressions of character concepts.  I think if you have a cool idea for a campaign that does require more restrictions, like "Let's do a game where everyone is a warforged druid so we can be Transformers!"  (non-hypothetical, this idea was discussed by one of my groups over the weekend), then we make sure everyone has buy-in, but also that nobody should try to be disruptive once everyone is onboard.We had a question on these boards a couple years ago about whether it was OK to play a gnome in Dark Sun; canonically, Dark Sun does not have gnomes.  As a player, I would never ask to play a gnome, because I assume the DM wants to maintain the canon and atmosphere of Dark Sun.  If I was the DM, I would explain that Dark Sun doesn't canonically have gnomes, but we can absolutely make it work if he wants to be a gnome.  Maybe he can be a lost gnome held in stasis, maybe there's a lost tribe of gnomes deep in the Wastes, or maybe just gnomes are actually common on Athas for this campaign.  Most of my players would just decide not to be a gnome, and for the few that had a concept in which gnome was essential, would work with me to establish their place in the setting.Man, this drifted really far from the point I wanted to make of "It's totally cool to use the 2014 druid and the 2024 druid at the same table." <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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