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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Painfully" data-source="post: 1406342" data-attributes="member: 601">Well, I could see how some DMs might not want a dwarven wizard, or a halfling paladin.  As long as things like that are worked out in the beginning of the campaign, the DM has a responsibility to be fair to each of the players and their characters.IMC, I prefer to avoid half-races.  [the world is not a rampant orgy of cross breeding humanoids!]  Sorcerers and wizards are famous from the very beginning of their careers, and clerics that cast spells, a wonderous gift from the gods.  For a long time I could never picture dwarven wizards or halfling paladins as part of my world.I actually liked my dwarven wizard when I made one to play as an exercise in someone else's campaign once.  It made me develop a good background story that I liked enough to have been willing to allow it in my own campaign.  Maybe your DM needs the same kind of exercise?Although I might have some race/class restrictions, I always tell my players that I will allow anything if they come up with a good, and "reasonable" background story that will fit in my campaign world.  The complex part being that "reasonable" is something that needs to be figured out in the DMs mind.To me, my dwarven wizard's background story became very reasonble to me.  So, it opened up the door IMC for anybody who wanted to try a dwarven wizard character.  I'm still working on the halfling paladins.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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