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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Chance" data-source="post: 5085442" data-attributes="member: 2795">Should the DM accommodate characters, or characters accommodate DMs?Both. When I DM, I give players a general idea about what sorts of characters just won't work well. Depending on the adventure (for a one-shot) or the campaign (for the multi-shot <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />), these parameters shift quite a bit. Once I put on the DM hat full-time again, my next campaign will be a sandbox mixture of wilderness, town, dungeon, and water voyage. Those are big parameters.Once the characters are made and have met with my approval, the burden for accommodation shifts from the players to me. If I have a player who's invested skill points in Craft (firearms), I need to make sure that his character gets a chance to craft some firearms. If another player picks up Skill Focus (Perform [acting]), I need to make sure his character gets a chance to act.So, does this mean that a &quot;player [who] has chosen to focus a lot of his feats/abilities/character concept/whatnot on a mounted character&quot; should get the chance to play that concept? Yes, I as the DM need to give him opportunities to do his horsey thing.Caveat: Now, these accommodations by me won't happen every game session, but they will happen. So, Sir Ridesalot is going to end up facing situations in which his particular concept is less than optimal.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mark Chance, post: 5085442, member: 2795"] [i]Should the DM accommodate characters, or characters accommodate DMs?[/i] Both. When I DM, I give players a general idea about what sorts of characters just won't work well. Depending on the adventure (for a one-shot) or the campaign (for the multi-shot :)), these parameters shift quite a bit. Once I put on the DM hat full-time again, my next campaign will be a sandbox mixture of wilderness, town, dungeon, and water voyage. Those are big parameters. Once the characters are made and have met with my approval, the burden for accommodation shifts from the players to me. If I have a player who's invested skill points in Craft (firearms), I need to make sure that his character gets a chance to craft some firearms. If another player picks up Skill Focus (Perform [acting]), I need to make sure his character gets a chance to act. So, does this mean that a "player [who] has chosen to focus a lot of his feats/abilities/character concept/whatnot on a mounted character" should get the chance to play that concept? Yes, I as the DM need to give him opportunities to do his horsey thing. Caveat: Now, these accommodations by me won't happen every game session, but they will happen. So, Sir Ridesalot is going to end up facing situations in which his particular concept is less than optimal. [/QUOTE]

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