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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 8354356" data-attributes="member: 18182">As a player, I'm wary of DMs who run fairly standard D&D campaigns but restrict certain races, often for seemingly arbitrary reasons. No dragonborn in my game! Why? Because . . . I don't like'em!Now, if a DM is using a specific campaign setting, published or home-brew, or is going for a particular genre feel to the game . . . I can dig reasonable restrictions on character options. It's just that most of the DMs I've run into who are adamant about restrictions . . . run very bland settings. World-building by restriction alone is not my cuppa tea.Ideally, I'm cool with a DM providing a whitelist (a list of appropriate options) for their campaign idea . . . but being open and willing to go off that list if a player asks and has a cool character concept. DMs with strict blacklists (banned options) and no room for divergence . . . eh, I'll find another table, thanks.Of course, with the variety of character options available today, if you play with no restrictions you can easily end up with a party looking like [USER=22779]@Hussar[/USER]'s group! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> (I kid, your game sounds fun). If an eclectic party of different anthropomorphic animals (a tabaxi, harrengon, tortles, kenku, loxodon, and a dragonborn) wanders into a typical D&D town populated by humans and demihumans, it can be off-genre for the DM. Of course, nothing really wrong with crazy party make-ups, if that's what everyone at the table is into!What I'd like to try, but haven't yet . . . is a lottery system. Something that would have all options on the table, but result in a more traditional party make-up. Think of the "party" for the OT Star Wars films . . . mostly human, with one exotic alien and two quirky droid NPCs. For classes, players would draw cards randomly for a hat. Each card would have a category, perhaps arcane, divine, warrior, or rogue. Players could choose any class that fits within the category drawn. Next, draw cards on ancestry, with categories like human, demihuman, non-human. As the DM, I could ensure that there will be at least one of each class group for a balanced party, and most of the ancestry cards would be human, maybe two labeled demi-human, and only one labeled non-human. If you draw the non-human card, you can play just about any race from the table's bookshelf (or D&D Beyond). Before character creation, players could trade cards! Depending on what kind of genre the DM is going for, the cards that go into the hat can be varied.</blockquote>

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