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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8191145" data-attributes="member: 6779196">I think the title and wording of option 4 are strange. My impression was that you were going for an option where the players choose from a DM-curated set of options and individual exceptions are not made for the PCs. But the way you worded it sounds like the opposite of that.At any rate, I primarily DM (though I enjoy playing as well) and I prefer option 3. I like to curate player options to those that are thematically appropriate for the setting and campaign, but I try to provide enough options that players can have some variety between their characters, and I’m willing to work with players to create custom options.For example, I just had session 0 for my next campaign last week; race options were PHB and Volo’s Guide, with some modifications (for example, Yuan-ti Pureblood getting poison resistance instead of immunity and no magic resistance). One of my players really wanted to play a Kalashtar, so I pointed out that they’re kind of an Eberron-specific thing, but asked what it was about them that appealed so much. She explained that she liked the idea of having a symbiotic relationship with a mysterious entity from another plane, so I suggested she use the Kalashtar racial features, but be a regular human who had formed a similar sort of bond with a ghost. That satisfied what she wanted out of Kalashtar, without me having to alter the setting to make it fit.</blockquote>

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