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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3249968" data-attributes="member: 19675">We probably don't know each other, but I'm usually the player who asks, gets refused, and comes up with something else without saying anything.Why?I have probably been rejected 10 times out of every 11 times I ask to play psionics, so I ask first because I don't want to spend time on a PC concept I'll never use.  Besides, I typically have about 100 PC concepts sitting around.  Why bother fighting the DM over a Githzerai Monk/PsyWar or an Anthro-Ape Soulknife when I can play my Hafling Barbarian with 2WF, spiked armor, bladed claws, some trog-stink vials?  Oh, did I mention his Canadian accent?I'm positive there are other players like me in this regard.I guarantee you've missed out on some cool PCs.  I can also guarantee you've missed some min-maxed munchkin PCs and ill-conceived builds that will have their players trying to sucide their PCs to roll up something else.The only reason to add Psionics, Incarnum, or ToM casters is to add fun to your campaign, and if the DM doesn't like something, the players won't like the result of going against the DM's preconceptions.Example: even though its solidly within the rules, several of my current DMs are definitely anti-pet.  Every Animal Companion and Familiar has died- quickly.  No one bothers with a Paladin (those are usually banned anyway), so we don't know what would happen to their mounts.  The only animals that have survived are a pair of cart-horses and a liberated pack of dogs.Result- nobody bothers with these class features anymore.Playing a psionic PC under an uncomitted or even prejudiced DM would be torturous.</blockquote>

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