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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6791447" data-attributes="member: 22779">Heh.  Seen that happen more times than I care to count. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I think a better example of what i'm talking about, that doesn't make me sound like I'm completely inconsistent (which I think I may have done this thread) came in a recent conversation about Dark Sun.  Someone talked about bringing in a Gnome cleric of Garl Glittergold into a Dark Sun campaign.  Now, I realise that there are two issues with this character, but, for me, only one of them really matters.  A gnome in Dark Sun is against canon.  Sure.  No problem.  I get that.  But, then again, Dark Sun has all sorts of fantastic races and lots of weird races too, so, a one off gnome, for me, would not be an issue.  Sure, it's non canon, but, adding in a single gnome isn't going to make too much of a change to the themes of the setting or campaign.OTOH, the cleric of Garl Glittergold is a bridge too far for me.  The whole point of Darksun is a world without gods.  Or, if that's not the whole point, it's still a honking big one.  The gods are dead.  Now we have Sorcerer Kings and the world is dying.  Adding in a god to the mix is not what I would want in a Darksun campaign.  A campaign to return the gods where, after some success, a character multi classes into having a divine class?  Maybe.  I could see that working.  But, from the outset of the campaign?  Naw, not so much.  it's too big of a change that should have far to much impact on the campaign.  I hope that clarifies my position.</blockquote>

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