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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 9585352" data-attributes="member: 3400">I agree that games where the characters are all playing from a more limited palette is well within D&D's reach - even if it's a bit of a lift for the DM. After all, if they all make fighter characters, they're telling the DM something about what they want the campaign to be about. The issue is making all of this explicit in the setup of the campaign and not waiting until the last minute to set these parameters.I don't, however, agree that DMs soft-mandating a balanced party is a hostile, aggressive foray into player agency. Setting up a campaign always involves someone making a pitch and seeing if the group agrees to buy in. A DM suggesting a more traditional D&D campaign that they have in mind isn't doing anything to player agency - the players still have the choice to buy in or not. Maybe they agree to participate, maybe they don't and they move on to the next pitch. Any agreement to participate - whether in a traditional balanced party campaign or a more focused one - means they're agreeing that they may be limiting some of their choices, whether as players or the DM, in the future to match the premise of the campaign. That's no assault on anyone's agency as a player.</blockquote>