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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2463690" data-attributes="member: 2205">I was struck in another thread by a bunch of responses, so I decided to start a new tangent thread from that...Do you prefer your optional races/classes/feats/etc. to be unavailable by default or available?  To simplify discussion, let's assume that the players aren't complete munchkins and yes, the DM can veto anything that he believes is out of hand.  Certainly that's the case in our game; I had (perhaps naively) believed that was more common than not.I was surprised that very many people were wary, if not downright unwilling to play in a game in which optional material was available and preferred a more "core only" approach.  Since I had always assumed that the variety of material available was one of the primary attractions of using the d20/D&D system, this caught me a bit by surprise.In my group, we do tend to use optional material. A hexblade made a notable stint as a PC in a recent campaign, in our new Age of Worms campaign I'll be either a shifter or a changeling (campaign is not set in Eberron) and we've had tons of supplemental feats and spells make appearances, and I imagine we will continue to do so.</blockquote>