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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ColonelHardisson" data-source="post: 200746" data-attributes="member: 363">It sounds like you're being entirely too draconian. If he's a good friend, hasn't played before, wants to play but wants some freedom in his character concept - I say accomodate him. If he rationalizes why he's "Faithless," even if you think it's a cliche (and if he hasn't played before it's not a cliche to him), then cut him some slack. It's a game. Games are meant to be social experiences wherein people get together to have a good time and enjoy each other's company. Gamers often get a bad rap (as do scifi fans) about being insular and xenophobic; try to bring in new blood rather than barring the way by making the game seem too strict. In this case, I don't see anything completely unreasonable (or even mildly unreasonable) in his requests. Even the minotaur; I would explain, though, that he'll have to wait until the rest of the party has reached a level wherein a minotaur could join in as an equal, rather than as being the completely dominant member of a 1st level party. If he wants to play, he'll have to run another character until then, then retire it, then provide a decent rationaliztion for how the minotaur joins up with the party (but again, if he makes a real effort - like writing several pages on it - meet him halfway). But I'll bet he won't want to retire that first character after playing it for that long.</blockquote>