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<blockquote data-quote="squibbles" data-source="post: 8147146" data-attributes="member: 6937590">I'm not suggesting that players should only play custom lineage. I'm suggesting that encouraging them to play custom lineage by default would have some cool advantages. If a player strongly prefers to play a lizardfolk with natural armor, a standard lightfoot halfling, or a cold+heights acclimated goliath that would be 100% cool--doubly so if aarakocra flight or triton underwater breathing is core to the character.Exactly!!! That's what makes the--otherwise very strong--custom lineage work as a player option.You're totally right with or without the convention I'm suggesting. My idea is about setting expectations, such that nobody--player or DM--comes to a game with assumptions that the elves or dwarves should be such and such way as an artifact of the PHB rules. No option is taken away for there to be completely conventional elves or dwarves. Rather, it is a convention meant to facilitate &quot;yes, and&quot; as the default DM and player reaction to one another's ideas.Well done! I was wondering if someone would remark on that. It is not permitted, rules as written or intended. I don't think it particularly matters, though, to mix optional rules and house rules in an unofficial game setting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="squibbles, post: 8147146, member: 6937590"] I'm not suggesting that players should [B]only [/B]play custom lineage. I'm suggesting that encouraging them to play custom lineage [B]by default [/B]would have some cool advantages. If a player strongly prefers to play a lizardfolk with natural armor, a standard lightfoot halfling, or a cold+heights acclimated goliath that would be 100% cool--doubly so if aarakocra flight or triton underwater breathing is core to the character. Exactly!!! That's what makes the--otherwise very strong--custom lineage work as a player option. You're totally right with or without the convention I'm suggesting. My idea is about setting expectations, such that nobody--player or DM--comes to a game with assumptions that the elves or dwarves should be such and such way [B][I]as an artifact of the PHB rules[/I][/B]. No option is taken away for there to be completely conventional elves or dwarves. Rather, it is a convention meant to facilitate "yes, and" as the default DM and player reaction to one another's ideas. Well done! I was wondering if someone would remark on that. It is not permitted, rules as written or intended. I don't think it particularly matters, though, to mix optional rules and house rules in an unofficial game setting. [/QUOTE]

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