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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 1095688" data-attributes="member: 259">Sounds like a blast!  I agree that limiting options is important; I further agree that as soon as you place something off-limits, all the players want it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />.   In my game, I told people that wizards and half-orcs were both considered evil and scary and that I didn't want them as PCs; guess what PCs I got?  I told people that magic missile wasn't on the spell list; guess which spell has been requested more than any other? Be firm in your rules; if you just discourage players from a particular choice, they'll be all over it like ice cream on a kid's face. As for half-elves, I like your ideas.  It might also work to have half-elves be back-woods country folk, people who claim descendance from the Tuatha de Danaan who live in the wilds of Ireland, or Pictish ancestry.  You don't ever have to tell the players whether the peasants' stories are true.</blockquote>