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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6555597" data-attributes="member: 1465">When playing a vanilla campaign, usually I am fine with including anything, at which point I might only have a concern or two on possible mechanical abuse, typically on material from late books or 3rd-party.But generally I prefer to play D&amp;D in a setting, published or homebrew, and in that case I believe in the &quot;soup principle&quot; i.e. no matter how much a single ingredient may be delicious by itself, adding it to your recipe doesn't necessarily improve it, and can often make it worst. The best soups have a reasonable number of ingredients, neither too few nor too many. I don't actually have much problems with base classes, but I do have with races, so when playing in a setting I'd rather include a selected few (different between campaigns) and exclude the rest, but if something already exists in the world and there aren't huge RP problems to handle a PC of that race, I can listen to a player's request of playing such character... just don't ask me to rearrange the rest of the world to 'fit' your pet race as a whole.Well yes, what I meant with my previous sentence is that if someone comes up and begs to play a Dragonborn at all costs, I may allow it. But I won't suddenly add a &quot;Dragonborn kingdom&quot; to the setting, or make adjustment to allocate a whole Dragonborn race into the world. Your Dragonborn PC is probably going to be one-of-a-kind.On the other hand, someone begging to play a pet idea has a good chance of not being the kind of player I'd like to have at my table on the long term. I like players who are open to what the settings offer, curious to see what the DM has come up with for the current campaign, and looking forward to play more campaigns with us. Someone begging for a very specific character at all costs and immediately is probably someone who is quite a lot more interested in his own PC instead of the group, the world around, and the adventures awaiting; and also probably doesn't have a vision of playing with us in the future, if he cannot understand that &quot;not in this setting&quot; doesn't mean &quot;never&quot;, and next campaign could very much allow it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 6555597, member: 1465"] When playing a vanilla campaign, usually I am fine with including anything, at which point I might only have a concern or two on possible mechanical abuse, typically on material from late books or 3rd-party. But generally I prefer to play D&D in a setting, published or homebrew, and in that case I believe in the "soup principle" i.e. no matter how much a single ingredient may be delicious by itself, adding it to your recipe doesn't necessarily improve it, and can often make it worst. The best soups have a reasonable number of ingredients, neither too few nor too many. I don't actually have much problems with base classes, but I do have with races, so when playing in a setting I'd rather include a selected few (different between campaigns) and exclude the rest, but if something already exists in the world and there aren't huge RP problems to handle a PC of that race, I can listen to a player's request of playing such character... just don't ask me to rearrange the rest of the world to 'fit' your pet race as a whole. Well yes, what I meant with my previous sentence is that if someone comes up and begs to play a Dragonborn at all costs, I may allow it. But I won't suddenly add a "Dragonborn kingdom" to the setting, or make adjustment to allocate a whole Dragonborn race into the world. Your Dragonborn PC is probably going to be one-of-a-kind. On the other hand, someone begging to play a pet idea has a good chance of not being the kind of player I'd like to have at my table on the long term. I like players who are open to what the settings offer, curious to see what the DM has come up with for the current campaign, and looking forward to play more campaigns with us. Someone begging for a very specific character at all costs and immediately is probably someone who is quite a lot more interested in his own PC instead of the group, the world around, and the adventures awaiting; and also probably doesn't have a vision of playing with us in the future, if he cannot understand that "not in this setting" doesn't mean "never", and next campaign could very much allow it. [/QUOTE]

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