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<blockquote data-quote="Hellcow" data-source="post: 4888836" data-attributes="member: 15800">And speaking to the any-race-can-have-any-dragonmark issue...That to is what you make of it. The ECG notes that this is incredibly rare; that the DM should avoid making NPCs with out of house dragonmarks; that it may be the first time in history a dragonmarked house has encountered such an individual; and that they very well may not like it. Personally, as a DM, I simply won't allow it unless the PC has a really interesting story attached and is prepared to have a very interesting life - and I will discuss this with any PC as we are going through the process of character creation. I've seen people come up with stories that ARE very interesting, that make me say &quot;Sure, I can work with that&quot; - but which are based around the fact that such marks are incredibly rare, and that the PC is one of the first in history to have such a thing. Sure, you can say &quot;But any PC can have one, so that makes them commonplace.&quot; Not in my eyes. Because NPCs aren't supposed to have them - and in any given campaign I run, there are only six PCs in the world. Sure there are times I've run crossover campaigns - but more often I run multiple iterations of the same campaign, and the PCs of group A don't exist in the same reality as the PCs of group B. Not so great if you WANT lots of crossover action... but as long as that's not an issue, it keeps the PCs of each group feeling that the story is about THEM.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hellcow, post: 4888836, member: 15800"] And speaking to the any-race-can-have-any-dragonmark issue... That to is what you make of it. The ECG notes that this is incredibly rare; that the DM should avoid making NPCs with out of house dragonmarks; that it may be the first time in history a dragonmarked house has encountered such an individual; and that they very well may not like it. Personally, as a DM, I simply won't allow it unless the PC has a really interesting story attached and is prepared to have a very interesting life - and I will discuss this with any PC as we are going through the process of character creation. I've seen people come up with stories that ARE very interesting, that make me say "Sure, I can work with that" - but which are based around the fact that such marks are incredibly rare, and that the PC is one of the first in history to have such a thing. Sure, you can say "But any PC can have one, so that makes them commonplace." Not in my eyes. Because NPCs aren't supposed to have them - and in any given campaign I run, there are only six PCs in the world. Sure there are times I've run crossover campaigns - but more often I run multiple iterations of the same campaign, and the PCs of group A don't exist in the same reality as the PCs of group B. Not so great if you WANT lots of crossover action... but as long as that's not an issue, it keeps the PCs of each group feeling that the story is about THEM. [/QUOTE]

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