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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SirAntoine" data-source="post: 6555413" data-attributes="member: 6731904">This is a great question. I suspect people will fall into two camps as they reply. First, there will be people who say it's just up to you in that it's one of the questions the DM gets to answer as he or she makes the setting and the campaign. Then there will be people who feel let down if the races they want aren't included, and included is a better term than allowed. The thing is, even if someone agrees with the first point, they may be disappointed personally. I'd say maybe 10% of the time someone will look for another group because of this, so it's pretty important to people in general.This is also an example of where the published content affects us all, even though we are all encouraged to make any adjustments we want to our home games, including which races and classes to include. Just because these new races and classes are out there, their fans will expect them as part of D&D and they may seriously miss them if they are not included. Worse yet, some people have the impression that a DM's choice of what races and classes to include is biased or unjustly narrow if they narrow it down. The community as a whole has lost sight of why someone would narrow it down, but still run the game well.The real answer for what is the positive basis for picking and choosing which races and classes to include, is if you would enjoy that more. The DM is playing the game, too, and he or she needs to understand and like the story and adventure content they make. If you more enjoy traditional race and class choices, it's because you really more enjoy them that you should consider including them and not others. That is a simplification, too, but it covers a set of common favorites. In Greyhawk in particular, there are many DM's who feel that dragonborn wouldn't be right. Many may also feel that paladins should only be LG, and all rangers of a good alignment such as in the Gnarley Forest where the rangers leave their marks and work together to root out evil. A woodsman or a tracker or hunter in the same forest isn't the same thing as one of these rangers.It's just a question of how things can be portrayed, as to whether there are too many different versions to permit the same flavor and focus in your writing.All I can do is encourage people to be open to the DM's choices, to encourage them to choose what they want and be okay with that.</blockquote>

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