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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thorgrit" data-source="post: 7266029" data-attributes="member: 61124">The idea that, if they have house rules or alterations to the game, they're actually willing to write them down and present them in a document prior to a new player joining is something I give major kudos for. I often find out about weird house rules or alterations in the middle of play, when it invalidates a build I'm going for, despite me asking very specifically about house rules at the beginning of play.(And I'm not talking munchkinny weird builds, either. My go-to example was a gaming group I had just joined with a dwarf rogue, figuring darkvision would help sneak around, only to find out during the first major combat they houserule anyone with darkvision to have disadvantage on all perception checks and attack rolls when there's any light source nearby.)Exactly what I'd accept or run away from in a document would vary greatly depending on how desperate for a game I am. I think I've averaged maybe six RPG sessions a year for the past couple years, so I'm pretty desperate. Fumble rules where I could accidentally decapitate myself on a nat 1? Sure, I can go with that; knowing it ahead of time means I can play a spellcaster that forces saving throws instead of using attack rolls. 300-page setting info that describes what's happened in the last 100 years that's required reading? I can skim the first couple pages and play an elf who's been on vacation for most of that time and just got back.But like a lot of others some racism, sexism, the other -isms can make me question, really, you're still doing that in this day and age? If it's too severe that's a walk-out moment right there, otherwise I'm willing to give a chance to fix it.  Politics and religion I'm willing to suppress for a while, and hope others are too, but if not and they're not already close friends, or even if they are and they get pushy about it, I'm gone.</blockquote>

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