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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sadras" data-source="post: 7906195" data-attributes="member: 6688277">Mildly disappointed is fine, it is when posters begin making presumptions about the DM that doesn't allow all the options that is when people start having issues with such posters.I wonder if the same pushback occurs when spells or entire schools are removed - resurrection comes to mind.EDIT: Most of the time this is discussed at session 0, but ofcourse new players and PC deaths occur so the weird and wonderful is sometimes asked for. I as DM tend to stick to much of the setting lore - fitting in as much of it that makes reasonable sense to our table.In our ToD campaign - I do not want to have someone playing a Saurial, Dragonborn or Half-Dragon as I have enough on my plate as DM, with limited playing time, and I do not want to explore that possible aspect of the storyline.In our Mystara campaign set in Karameikos - I do not want to blow up my world in order to cater to non-Known World races, published or otherwise. We have two elves, one is a Calarrii and the other Vyalian. The humans are a Traladaran and a Thyatian. That way I can run an official Known World module and the information I will introduce can be tied to their peoples' history and mythology. If I had a tabaxi or a dragonborn it would require more work to tie all that in. I'd have to rethink the Duchy's past. No thanks.There is a reason I use published settings and modules, less work for me as DM. When it comes to background though, I'm all ears. That is when the player gets to blow up creatively.In our ToD campaign - we have a restitched up PC, Amon, with shattered memories of the previous soul that inhabitted that body (a now dead PC, Montano). He was remade by Kelemvor on a mission to stop a Kavah, a deranged cleric, from resurrecting the merciless dead god, A'tar.All three were played by the same player.Montano died. Kavah was retired. Amon is his current character.The is entirely the player's creativity.</blockquote>

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