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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hellcow" data-source="post: 4815919" data-attributes="member: 15800">(Popping in from a hotspot at UK Games Expo...)Correct. Mechanically, there are no restrictions. But both the EPG and ECG note that the marks are tied to specific races and families. The ECG highlights that a PC who develops an out of house mark might be the first member of his race in history to do so, and that the houses could very well decide that extermination is the proper response. So MECHANICALLY marks are available to everyone. But if your campaign is set in Eberron, it's something a player will want to discuss with the DM. It's something that CAN create many interesting stories, if it's what the PC and DM want - but it's certainly within the DM's rights to hold people to the houses (whether with an iron hand or with the "Do what you want, but remember what happened to the Line of Vol... do you really want your entire family to be targeted for extermination to prevent your unnatural mark from spreading?" approach). I'm not in a position to say more, and now that I'm on the road I won't have time to anyways. But you've got the mechanics of the marks, and you've got their role in the setting - and if you're playing in Eberron, both are equally important.</blockquote>