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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8120361" data-attributes="member: 6801228">You ask an interesting question here. How many tables do I know that do not allow feats? None. How many DMs do I know who would prefer to run the game with no feats? Also None. Not a single DM I have ever run into wanted to run a featless game. How many tables do I know that ban Xanathar's? None. How man DMs do I know who would prefer to ban Xanathar's?Also None. I guess you might want to argue that secretly those DMs really wish they could cut out those options, but all of those optional rules I see in the game are there because the DM wanted them to be there. So, if none of the DMs I know want to cut out Tasha's... then I assume they are all going to run with Tasha's. Because they are going to want to include those options. If you want to not include them, and everyone else does... go ahead. You get to make that call. Of course, some players might try and reach a compromise with you. They might question why you are denying the option. After all, they don't see any problem with it. And how you approach that moment is also entirely up to you. But this idea that it isn't really an option, because players will want it, and DMs will cave and have to run games they hate... doesn't match my experience at all.I want to pull this out, and examine it a little bit. If the majority of the group wants a resource. Optional or not, homebrew or not, to the point where it affects their decision to play or not.... then as a DM who feels the need to compromise for the enjoyment of the game, you should listen to them. You already acknowledge this. You already agree with this. So... why does it matter how Tasha's is labeled at all? But, I am remembering your other posts, and I think I have an idea. You are convinced you know what the players in your area will enjoy better than they do. You've said as much multiple times on this thread. That new DMs will allow this "without knowing what they do" and that many of the players in your area are young and won't see the implications of these rules degrading their games. And you know what, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt. I'm going to say that you are right. That over in France in whatever city you live in, around whatever game shop you play in, those players are too inexperienced to make their own decisions about what they will enjoy. That you need to curtail your own democratic game process to protect them from these rules.  I don't need your protection. My friends who are DMs don't need your protectionMy friends who are players don't need your protectionThe greybeards in my local gaming shop don't need your protectionThe people I play with online from across the  continent don't need your protection. We are all old enough, mature enough, and game-rule saavy enough to make our own decisions about the game rules we allow. So, instead of saying how WoTC shouldn't print these rules because the 15 year olds in France don't know better, let us just assume that the majority of the people who will be buying and using this book know what they are doing, and are doing it on purpose.</blockquote>

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