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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 7906118" data-attributes="member: 18182">Meh. Get pissed all you want.What is the reason behind your campaign setting? A canvas for your GROUP to collaboratively tell fantasy stories on? Or your personal novel setting that you must control every aspect of? Dragonborn don't exist in my campaign. Why? Because . . . they don't, and it's MY campaign! Okay . . .As I've pointed out in several posts, not allowing dragonborn (or some other list of races/classes/character options) can be a useful filter to try and create a specific genre feel. But rarely have I encountered DM's who can articulate that, it's more often (in my experience) a control freak reaction to PCs changing the DM's precious setting.Heck, if a DM told me, &quot;I don't allow dragonborn in my campaign. Why? Not sure really, I just don't like them.&quot; I'd probably roll my eyes, but that wouldn't necessarily kill the game for me. It's a red flag that the DM might be unnecessarily inflexible, but not a surefire indicator. I've had DM's &quot;outlaw&quot; kender and gnomes after too many bad experiences, and I can respect that a bit, even if I would prefer a more creative approach to player's who like to play annoying characters.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 7906118, member: 18182"] Meh. Get pissed all you want. What is the reason behind your campaign setting? A canvas for your GROUP to collaboratively tell fantasy stories on? Or your personal novel setting that you must control every aspect of? Dragonborn don't exist in my campaign. Why? Because . . . they don't, and it's MY campaign! Okay . . . As I've pointed out in several posts, not allowing dragonborn (or some other list of races/classes/character options) can be a useful filter to try and create a specific genre feel. But rarely have I encountered DM's who can articulate that, it's more often (in my experience) a control freak reaction to PCs changing the DM's precious setting. Heck, if a DM told me, "I don't allow dragonborn in my campaign. Why? Not sure really, I just don't like them." I'd probably roll my eyes, but that wouldn't necessarily kill the game for me. It's a red flag that the DM might be unnecessarily inflexible, but not a surefire indicator. I've had DM's "outlaw" kender and gnomes after too many bad experiences, and I can respect that a bit, even if I would prefer a more creative approach to player's who like to play annoying characters. [/QUOTE]

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