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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Panjumanju" data-source="post: 8154752" data-attributes="member: 6746417">Without malice, I think your implicit expectation that the GM should accomodate whatever conflicting concept you bring to a game by changing a fundimental aspect of what they wanted to run in the first place is not very appreciative of the work that the GM has to go through to bring you a night of gaming. I'm don't have to be the GM in this situation. If someone is good enough to put in the work necessary to run a game, I'm on board with whatever concept is going, unless it is of exceptional disinterest to me. I would never feel the need to shoehorn what I want to do as a character concept into a game where it does not belong, and I wouldn't expect anyone at my table to behave that way, either.With concerns to your accusation of gatekeeping: if this point of clarity matters at all (and if only in the hope we could maybe get on the same page?) I'm usually game for anything. You want to run a bunny rabbit that has come to life and summons snowballs? Sure, we'll figure out a way to do that. But if the rules of the universe are "no horses", I am not going to be flexible to someone saying they need a horse because it's what they get at level 3 or whatever. I'd suggest a giant lizard, or whatever is within the setting. I am not GMing to fulfill player fantasies. We're all trying to have a good time together. I don't think one player's personal mission should overturn a game.Also if it's anything we can establish common ground over, I rarely run D&D. I run a lot of strange systems with strange power dynamics between GMs and players, some of them GMless, but, if I have to run D&D - damn it if D&D and things like it aren't a tonne of work to set up week after week. If someone wants to play an elf in my human-centric game, flat-out "No elves. You can do an elf in just about any other D&D game. Let's stick to theme."//Panjumanju</blockquote>

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