D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

[Belen]

For the same reason so many GMs on this very forum have bemoaned their terrible plight, being the victim of the horrible, manipulative, nasty players; these poor, beleaguered GMs with absolute power, and an edition which bends over backwards to make their word law, as hard as iron, cannot do anything about these nasty players with such HORRID demands as "well I was kind of hoping I could play a dragonborn".

You are very consistently anti-DM across many threads. It is one reason that I perceive ENWorld has become DM-unfriendly.

That may not be the case but it sure feels that way.

 

[mamba]

I'm not saying it's unclear to the player.

ok, so a misunderstanding rather than unclear. In that case things get sorted out right then and there, just like in your example discussion

DM: I'm running an Arctic game would you like to play.
Player: Sure. That's sounds cool. Frozen tundras and stuff. I guess I can't play in 2014 Arctic Ranger because that would make it too easy, right?

any player who thinks an Arctic Ranger is not suitable for an arctic campaign sounds like someone who runs into a lot of misunderstandings

I am not sure what disqualifies a Pyromancer though. The DM should definitely have been more explicit in your fictional exchange

 

[TiQuinn]

it's silly to pretend that tortle is any sort of deep RoLePlAyInG choice.