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<blockquote data-quote="Papa-DRB" data-source="post: 5101055" data-attributes="member: 51291"><p>Your first sentence is the crux of our (potential) disagreement. If I tell all the players that the campaign / adventure path will be a sea borne pirate campaign, and if a player wants to run a mounted knight in the campaign, I would remind the player of the campaign premise, and let him know that 90+% of the time his mount would not be viable. However if the player can still have fun under those circumstances, I won't deny him playing that character.</p><p></p><p>However if the player tells me he can't have fun and that I must make accommodations in the campaign so he can play his mounted knight, well then he is trying to railroad me into a campaign that I do not want to run. At that point, he either creates a new character or excepts that he won't be having as much fun as usual, or he tells me to ask him to play when the next campaign starts. No hard feelings on my part regardless of his choice.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, to me this is a theoretical issue since my players and I trust each other and when I give them the adventure path premise they make characters that they enjoy playing within that premise, and we all have loads of fun. (*)</p><p></p><p>-- david</p><p>Papa.DRB</p><p></p><p>* Especially if Bob plays a spell caster since, even thought the man is genius level, he is the very model of an "absent minded professor".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Papa-DRB, post: 5101055, member: 51291"] Your first sentence is the crux of our (potential) disagreement. If I tell all the players that the campaign / adventure path will be a sea borne pirate campaign, and if a player wants to run a mounted knight in the campaign, I would remind the player of the campaign premise, and let him know that 90+% of the time his mount would not be viable. However if the player can still have fun under those circumstances, I won't deny him playing that character. However if the player tells me he can't have fun and that I must make accommodations in the campaign so he can play his mounted knight, well then he is trying to railroad me into a campaign that I do not want to run. At that point, he either creates a new character or excepts that he won't be having as much fun as usual, or he tells me to ask him to play when the next campaign starts. No hard feelings on my part regardless of his choice. Anyway, to me this is a theoretical issue since my players and I trust each other and when I give them the adventure path premise they make characters that they enjoy playing within that premise, and we all have loads of fun. (*) -- david Papa.DRB * Especially if Bob plays a spell caster since, even thought the man is genius level, he is the very model of an "absent minded professor". [/QUOTE]
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