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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mamba" data-source="post: 8810123" data-attributes="member: 7034611">what about the player denying the DM to play the setting the DM enjoys / wants it to be by being an Orc when there aren't any ?Emphasis on collaborative. I.e. the DM does not get to tell the players  how they should play and the players do not get to tell the DM how he should rule.Ideally the DM and players initially agree to a setting and theme / plot, and this includes what races, classes, etc. are available, and then have fun together. If some compromises have to be made for this, no problem, but neither side can force the other to accept something they do not want (I am saying sides for simplicity, it is really all individual opinions).If however one player absolutely insists on wanting something the DM absolutely does not allow, then that player has to drop out. If I want to run Out of the Abyss and one player insists on playing Spelljammer only, he won't be in my party. He is welcome to play SJ with someone else.The same is true for a player insisting on playing an Orc, if I felt strongly enough about not having them in the setting.This also works the other way, if I want to run Out of the Abyss but the players want to run Strahd or what have you, then we probably end up running Strahd instead, unless I were really opposed to that (at which point we run something else entirely that everyone agrees on)</blockquote>