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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8592078" data-attributes="member: 7006">Look, if someone doesn't want to take personal responsibility for their own happiness and instead wants to rely on some game company in Seattle to do it for them... okay... best of luck to them.&nbsp; If (general) you want to just sit here miserable because you either have to be a &quot;bad DM&quot; by telling your players &quot;No, Theros is an Ancient Greek style game and thus I'm not allowing Tabaxi in the setting&quot; or else miserable because you LET the player play a Tabaxi in this Ancient Greek setting... then so be it.&nbsp; Be miserable.But hey... maybe you will luck out and eventually WotC WILL print something in a book someday that says &quot;As a DM you can make this game your own and can pick and choose what to include&quot; and you can use that as your &quot;proof&quot; as to why you aren't allowing Tabaxi.&nbsp; It's not YOU telling them they can't play it, it's Wizards of the Coast!&nbsp; It's THEIR fault!&nbsp; You're just the messenger!&nbsp; You're not the bad guy, it's all WotC!&nbsp; If you really want to wait for that to happen, go right ahead.&nbsp; But just expect to be miserable in the meantime.Personally though?&nbsp; I'm always perfectly happy being &quot;unreasonable&quot;.&nbsp; And I tell the players all the time and straight away without malice or dishonesty &quot;When you run your own game, you can allow or disallow whatever you want.&nbsp; But this is MY game I'm running and I'm going to do the same.&nbsp; If you don't want to go along with it, then you can choose not to play.&quot;&nbsp; And I don't feel any personal problem or issue with that whatsoever.&nbsp; And you know what?&nbsp; Neither do my players, because they are actually reasonable people themselves and are able to accept whatever rules or restrictions I put in.&nbsp; And they choose to play or not play as the case may be.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8592078, member: 7006"] Look, if someone doesn't want to take personal responsibility for their own happiness and instead wants to rely on some game company in Seattle to do it for them... okay... best of luck to them. If (general) you want to just sit here miserable because you either have to be a "bad DM" by telling your players "No, Theros is an Ancient Greek style game and thus I'm not allowing Tabaxi in the setting" or else miserable because you LET the player play a Tabaxi in this Ancient Greek setting... then so be it. Be miserable. But hey... maybe you will luck out and eventually WotC WILL print something in a book someday that says "As a DM you can make this game your own and can pick and choose what to include" and you can use that as your "proof" as to why you aren't allowing Tabaxi. It's not YOU telling them they can't play it, it's Wizards of the Coast! It's THEIR fault! You're just the messenger! You're not the bad guy, it's all WotC! If you really want to wait for that to happen, go right ahead. But just expect to be miserable in the meantime. Personally though? I'm always perfectly happy being "unreasonable". And I tell the players all the time and straight away without malice or dishonesty "When you run your own game, you can allow or disallow whatever you want. But this is MY game I'm running and I'm going to do the same. If you don't want to go along with it, then you can choose not to play." And I don't feel any personal problem or issue with that whatsoever. And you know what? Neither do my players, because they are actually [I]reasonable people themselves[/I] and are able to accept whatever rules or restrictions I put in. And they choose to play or not play as the case may be. [/QUOTE]

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