Players: have you ever been racialy denied by you DM?
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I once denied a player the ability to play an elf. Of course it woulda been his 8th or 9th elf character in a row. That guy literally slept with that 2E elven guidebook, and insisted on milking it for every last bit of powergaming he could squeeze out of it.
He made up a human character instead... that was raised by elves. We had quite the argument when he insisted that his being raised by elves qualified him to be a bladesinger.
*sigh*
He made up a human character instead... that was raised by elves. We had quite the argument when he insisted that his being raised by elves qualified him to be a bladesinger.
*sigh*
Argent Silvermage
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Thanks for the responses people. and for those 8 who voted for option 3...
Welcome to the fold. the party commences NOW!
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Hardhead
Explorer
Bendris Noulg said:
Ha ha, yeah, same here. Except I'm not really joking.
In my experience, people who want to play kender are the same types of players that, in general, are disruptive. Kender are fine for a novel. They suck as an actual PC race.
I agree with Sejs.
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Patlin
Explorer
My DM changed the description of some Demons we were fighting and refused to even tell me what they were called (assuming incorectly that I have an encyclopedic knowledge of demons) on the allegation that I'm not good at seperating player knowledge from character knowledge.
This wouldn't have been offensive except he simultaneously allowed another player to review the monster manual entry for the Demons we were fighting. Apparently, in the DMs view the other player had the requisite ability.
Count to 10 and remember veteran players must not push around novice DMs, I guess... (though the novice DM was a veteran player himself, simply unused to DMing.)
This wouldn't have been offensive except he simultaneously allowed another player to review the monster manual entry for the Demons we were fighting. Apparently, in the DMs view the other player had the requisite ability.
Count to 10 and remember veteran players must not push around novice DMs, I guess... (though the novice DM was a veteran player himself, simply unused to DMing.)
lukelightning
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I think it is fine for a DM to ban a race for a few reasons, and one of the biggest is if the race will disrupt the campaign. I've never seen a kender played in any way other than an annoyance. No offense, but I try to avoid the type of player who must must must play a kender.
Kenders may be fine in a novel where they are scripted in, but in a D&D game they just seem to be a hinderance.
Kenders may be fine in a novel where they are scripted in, but in a D&D game they just seem to be a hinderance.
Buttercup
Princess of Florin
It's the DM's right to allow or disallow races, classes and so forth from their game. If a player doesn't like it, I'd say it might be time for them to DM their own campaign.
We just started a new campaign, and for the first time I'm allowing all the PHB races. I've never before allowed elves or gnomes. Fortunately, no one is actually playing an elf. For some unfathomable reason though, one of them is playing a half-elf. And another is playing a gnome who doesn't like to bathe. Since the player does bathe though, I think we can all handle it.
We just started a new campaign, and for the first time I'm allowing all the PHB races. I've never before allowed elves or gnomes. Fortunately, no one is actually playing an elf. For some unfathomable reason though, one of them is playing a half-elf. And another is playing a gnome who doesn't like to bathe. Since the player does bathe though, I think we can all handle it.
Altalazar
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Buttercup said:It's the DM's right to allow or disallow races, classes and so forth from their game. If a player doesn't like it, I'd say it might be time for them to DM their own campaign.
We just started a new campaign, and for the first time I'm allowing all the PHB races. I've never before allowed elves or gnomes. Fortunately, no one is actually playing an elf. For some unfathomable reason though, one of them is playing a half-elf. And another is playing a gnome who doesn't like to bathe. Since the player does bathe though, I think we can all handle it.
I agree a DM certainly should restrict races to those that make sense.
On the other side of the coin, a good DM and a good player can come up with a way to put just about any race in a campaign and have it make sense, if they are so inclined.
I can't recall ever disallowing a race, nor can I recall not being able to play a race I wanted. But then again, I've never asked for anything all that exotic. And I can't remember a player asking for something all that exotic, with the exception of once someone played a gnoll - and that actually turned out rather well. Gnoll druid.
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