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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9388157" data-attributes="member: 29398">Oh, I listen to my players' ideas alright, particularly when it comes to things their PCs could (but don't want to) face; and then quietly stow those ideas away in the back of my mind.Then, months or even years later when the players have forgotten their own idea, I'll spring it on them... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />You're skipping over a step here.&nbsp; Before that talk-it-over phase, I want to know why the player is proposing this idea, as in what's the actual motivation behind it.IME it's almost always that the player is - whether consciously or not - looking for a game-mechanical advantage of some sort.As someone noted upthread as being their own procedure, rare and oddball PC species can and do exist in my otherwise-quite-conservative game but they're heavily gated behind die rolls so as to keep them as rare as they're IMO supposed to be.Come to me and straight-up ask to play a Leprechaun, my answer will be no.&nbsp; Luck into one on the &quot;Other&quot; species chart, however, and you're good to rock (and there's no way for a player to fudge such a roll as the chart isn't viewable to them).I'm not as concerned about spotlight hogs as some here, though, in that I'd rather everyone be a bit of a spotlight hog to begin with.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9388157, member: 29398"] Oh, I listen to my players' ideas alright, particularly when it comes to things their PCs could (but don't want to) face; and then quietly stow those ideas away in the back of my mind. Then, months or even years later when the players have forgotten their own idea, I'll spring it on them... :) You're skipping over a step here. Before that talk-it-over phase, I want to know [I]why[/I] the player is proposing this idea, as in what's the actual motivation behind it. IME it's almost always that the player is - whether consciously or not - looking for a game-mechanical advantage of some sort. As someone noted upthread as being their own procedure, rare and oddball PC species can and do exist in my otherwise-quite-conservative game but they're heavily gated behind die rolls so as to keep them as rare as they're IMO supposed to be. Come to me and straight-up ask to play a Leprechaun, my answer will be no. Luck into one on the "Other" species chart, however, and you're good to rock (and there's no way for a player to fudge such a roll as the chart isn't viewable to them). I'm not as concerned about spotlight hogs as some here, though, in that I'd rather everyone be a bit of a spotlight hog to begin with. [/QUOTE]

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