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<blockquote data-quote="Velderan" data-source="post: 8812965" data-attributes="member: 7038056"><p>The problem with the whole argument against having some language saying "this is the standard races you might find on Krynn" is that argument basically comes down to WotC isn't going to restrict player choice because D&D while conveniently ignoring WotC chose to by default suggest restrictions to player choice in a product they released just 2 years ago (Theros), which clearly describes that product as <em>checks notes</em> "a new setting for your <strong>Dungeons & Dragons</strong> campaign to explore". Now we can go on for another 81 pages about whether that's good or bad design philosophy, but the fact is they've done it recently and the product line didn't implode so them doing it again isn't going to hurt anything. They could even use something similar to the wording to leave it open to each table to figure out for themselves, "the races in the Player's Handbook are unknown on Theros, unless they’re visiting from other worlds." could easily be "the Half-orc, Halfling, and Tiefling races in the Player's Handbook are unknown on Krynn, unless they’re visiting from other worlds" without any issue. The language is incredibly flexible in steering towards the creator's intent without flat out saying no since that seems to be a problem here. The next paragraph says "the following common playable races of Theros", nowhere does it say banned. Your DM can allow a tiefling in Theros and it's just fine. This isn't exactly a difficult concept.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Velderan, post: 8812965, member: 7038056"] The problem with the whole argument against having some language saying "this is the standard races you might find on Krynn" is that argument basically comes down to WotC isn't going to restrict player choice because D&D while conveniently ignoring WotC chose to by default suggest restrictions to player choice in a product they released just 2 years ago (Theros), which clearly describes that product as [I]checks notes[/I] "a new setting for your [B]Dungeons & Dragons[/B] campaign to explore". Now we can go on for another 81 pages about whether that's good or bad design philosophy, but the fact is they've done it recently and the product line didn't implode so them doing it again isn't going to hurt anything. They could even use something similar to the wording to leave it open to each table to figure out for themselves, "the races in the Player's Handbook are unknown on Theros, unless they’re visiting from other worlds." could easily be "the Half-orc, Halfling, and Tiefling races in the Player's Handbook are unknown on Krynn, unless they’re visiting from other worlds" without any issue. The language is incredibly flexible in steering towards the creator's intent without flat out saying no since that seems to be a problem here. The next paragraph says "the following common playable races of Theros", nowhere does it say banned. Your DM can allow a tiefling in Theros and it's just fine. This isn't exactly a difficult concept. [/QUOTE]
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