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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MrMyth" data-source="post: 4886662" data-attributes="member: 61155">So, since this does seem to have caused quite a concern for you, in what way has this negatively impacted the game you play? 1) You have encountered an NPC which has an off-race mark in an official product, which you feel weakens the uniqueness of the dragonmarks within the setting? 2) You have had a player seek to use a Dragonmark outside the normal guidelines, and either let it happen in your game (and suffered the same above issue), or had to tell them no and were frustrated at the Eberron book for putting that burden on you?If neither of these has happened... I don't see much reason for you to complain. In the official setting, there has never been a Dragonmark found outside of the appropriate race for it. The potential for it to do so - in the hands of DMs and players who will find their experience enriched by such a thing happening - should not have any impact on your game. You are concerned about the 'potential' for it to crop up in NPCs or elsewhere - I'd recommend you complain about that if and when it happens, rather than try and divine the future to justify your concerns about a product in the present.As it currently stands, the 'potential' for it to happen in other player's games has no impact on your own. You are the DM - it won't crop up in your game unless you choose for it to happen. There is no conflict with the current canon setting if you treat it exactly as the setting previously did - indeed, the designers made it clear that is an entirely valid approach to take. Given that the designers accomplished a very good thing, in making these options available to those who wanted to use them while leaving the default still in place for those who don't, it seems rather petty to be upset solely over how other people are enjoying the setting....</blockquote>

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