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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6412925" data-attributes="member: 5143">I'm going to disagree with that point already.  It's good to try to keep players happy.  When they ask for unreasonable things, however, you can't give it to them or they'll expect the same thing again and again.I already have a player in one of my games who is playing a halfling rogue.  They are VERY annoyed that halflings don't have dark vision and first session they asked me how their character could acquire it.  I told them that there are some spells that can give it to you and there are some magic items that can do it.  Or you could become a Warlock.  Other than that, if you don't have it, you'll just have to make up for it by using all your other benefits.  Either that or if she wanted to remake her character as a race that had Darkvision, I'd be ok with that as well.  She flat out refused...said she wanted to be a halfling but wanted darkvision.  She started searching for Goggles of Night everywhere she went(at level 1).  Then, when she didn't find them immediately complained about it.  I told her magic items were fairly rare and it was unlikely she'd just find them laying around.  Then she asked if it was possible to remove the eyes of creatures who had darkvision and replace her eyes with them.  I said, maybe with some powerful magic but it was likely beyond anyone in the party currently.  So, she's been collecting the eyes of every creature she kills with darkvision in her quest.I still have no intention of actually giving her darkvision.  To me, it feels like cancelling out the weakness of a race.  I think every character should have a weakness...this one is the inability to see in the dark.</blockquote>

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