Race Restriction House Rule?

[Sunseeker]

That's really interesting -- I wonder how many people do it that way.

I'm an artist of words, but I find a lot more people are visual, even in an RP, than verbal. I like using pictures because I think it sames me a lot of trouble explaining the mundane.

 

[ourchair]

For me, it depends on how the players want to use the 'weird race.'

I've never been comfortable with kalashtar because it seems like people don't really do anything with their fluff unless someone is running an Eberron campaign that makes explicit use of the Dreaming Dark.

I get away with warforged and dragonborn, because as far as most DMs understand me, I'm just picking out races that are of the "big heavy" archetype, and that's something that's easy to work with. "Oh you are a strange giant golem-thing, I am a villager and now I just messed my pants."

The player needs to put a little work behind his character's race so that the DM can understand what he can do without. Otherwise, gith become extraplanar ninja elves and genasi become homo superior with the x factor. In roleplay, that amounts to just being a human. Except mechanically special for no other reason than because the rules say so.

 

[Amphimir Míriel]

I have also been blessed/cursed with very creative players and even though I have always tried to portray a world where the "basic" races are a lot more common than the more exotic ones, I always end up with a "cast of special snowflakes"

Sigh... anyway, these are my friends and I really enjoy playing with them, but I really wish they would play humans, once in their lives...

 

[Prestidigitalis]

I have also been blessed/cursed with very creative players and even though I have always tried to portray a world where the "basic" races are a lot more common than the more exotic ones, I always end up with a "cast of special snowflakes"

After reading that link, I have a new insight into why I so often play humans. I care about what the character DOES (or has done) and not what the character IS. An odd race would just get in the way.