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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6340056" data-attributes="member: 6669384">It's tricky in that I don't just get to say yes or no to proposals.  Neither does anyone else.  It's a vote thing, and my vote doesn't count any more than anyone elses.  Except that I'm a Type A personality, and my voice seems to carry a lot of other people along with it.  That's one reason I want to get opinions here.  If I can't avoid being "undue influence" personified, at least I'd like to be a fair and well informed voice of undue influence.  I mentioned to the player, by email, that since his character is said to hail from the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa, and the books don't cover any African regional or tribal faiths, he could do a little research into the region and write up something appropriate.  We'd probably approve, and applaud the historical research efforts.He's feeling very put upon right now though, since so many aspects of his character have been brought up for a vote, and it doesn't look like he's going to win even one of them.  His problem, I think, is that he doesn't ask for approval of stuff from outside sources, he just puts it in the character without mentioning the source.  I don't know if he's trying to slip something by us under the radar, or if he simply isn't thinking about the approved source list when he plans this stuff.He wanted the War domain because it grants a starting non-human PC three feats at first level:  The Everyman feat that everyone gets, the Martial Weapon Proficiency for his deity's favored weapon (and he wanted a god who favored something Clerics couldn't already get), and the Weapon Focus feat with that same weapon.  Normally a 1st level non-human character will get one to begin with, and he's the type of player who wants more than "normally".  As one vote among many, I don't get to offer or make bargains for creative solutions.  If I offer something that's not in an approved source, I'm out of line just as much as he is.</blockquote>

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