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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kalani" data-source="post: 6753956" data-attributes="member: 88085">Unfortunately no. When players in LFR showed up to the table, the DM was powerless to do anything about it (other than complain and hope the broken combo would get errata'ed). DMs in organized play don't have the same level of power as in a home game. They have to allow anything which is legal under the ruleset. Their own personal preferences, tastes, or ideas of "how things should work" mean little.Were DMs granted the authority to ban things at their table, you will see abuse of such a rule -with DMs banning anything they disagree with, from dwarven wizards to entire races/classes/feats/etc. This would cause more problems than it solves.For better or worse - rules as to what is/isn't allowed within an organized play campaign must be made globally. The Story Origin method might make players unhappy, but to date - it is the best solution I have seen to address these problems. In fact, I wished that the Story Origin mechanic (or something similar) existed in LG or LFR, as it would have helped solve 90% of the problems. There is also the fact that, "it is easier to loosen restrictions, than add them after the fact". If (in a year or two), it turns out that the Story Origin mechanic is too restrictive - it will be revisited, and the restriction loosened.As is, I consider the ruling for SCAG to be a loosening of the restriction already, as it was added retroactively to all story origins. I expected it to be added only to the RoD story origin, with perhaps the Deity list added to all story origins.In fact, my home games use a similar rule to Story OriginsAnd for the same reasons.... In my home games (dating back to 3.5), PCs can use the PHB and any two splatbooks of their choice when building and leveling their character.  I found this rule helped prevent the majority of problems, while at the same time giving players freedom to make a character they wanted without imposing arbitrary restrictions based on my own taste preferences.</blockquote>

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