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

Is it a book I've had a chance to read? Not all subclasses are going to fit if we're talking hypotheticals with no other info.

By and large any book I own is fair game but for example some Eberron subclasses may not make sense or maybe it would work with tweaking. Dragonmarks for example don't exist in my world any more than guns.

As far as my curated species list I don't update it.
I legitimately wondered if there was any exception to the curated list. My players bring me 3pp options and I will review it and make a call on it. I can't know everything that exists, so I review them and make a call. I just wondered if you did the same or if the list was finite and unchanging.
 

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Omce again that doesn't matter because there have been many many attempts to talk about the process of gm<>player cooperative collaboration on an abstract level many times. Often those were with intentionally absurd examples involving things Jedi and Klingons on TOS era federation ships that should have allowed the example to stand as an unreasonable one purely for purpose of discussing the process at an abstract. However ach time someone on the tortle side of the discussion would ignore that effort and try to justify how the trek verse could accommodate those things if only the gm were willing to be more accommodating.

About the closest that the tortle advocates ever came to making attempts at talking about the process was a few times where they suggested peppering the gm will throw away race/class combos with no further details that were regularly ascribed as things with deep player attachment the gm needs to endlessly dig through. No matter what critique was given to each of those shotgun blast process proposals it would just be ignored and go back to specifics about how the gm could make those work now that the player has fulfilled their end of simply listing a few PCs they might like to play
I disagree that that is what is happening here; I strongly disagree with your characterization of the "Jedi and Klingons in TOS ships" thing, because that was always the people proposing it being disingenuous jerks trying to paint EVERYONE who wants ANYTHING the GM doesn't like.

I have no desire to interact with this assertion beyond what I have just said, and will not respond to further about this.
 

That goes both ways. I shudder at the thought of playing in a campaign where action has do little consequence or concern that the gm doesn't even bother to consider tracking the impacts of play on it.

Maybe it's a symptom of a willingness to toss out anything previously established to be replaced by any spur of the moment throwaway idea supplied by a player during character creation?
Could you try a little harder to insult people who don't share your preferences? I don't think you've done enough to emphasize just how horrific, destructive, and cringey it is to spend five minutes caring about what players think rather than ploughing ahead with your own views, players be damned.
 

I mean, depends on the ability. Dragonborn had their breath weapon and they were the weakest race in the game because of it for the longest time. Aarakocra on the other hand, well. Depends on your take on how strong flying is

Generally speaking each race has its one little gimmick ability that handles that which is typically just a 'can cast spell X times a day'. Firbolg and gnomes get speak with animals, duergar get enlarge self, so on and so forth. Little once in a while abilities like that tend to be how people represent that. Some even have it as a detriment, though that tends to be the charity options loacanth and grung who both have 'keep moist or perish' passives, due to being fish and frog respectively

In terms of balance, said once in a while abilities are also notoriously underpowered compared to passive abilities and the powerhouse that is the free feat humans get.

I was just curious whether "If they can be adventurers they can be PCs" was liable to come up against some species that are humanoid and theoretically can do that, but have too many baked in special abilities to make much sense to be placed in the same framework as standard PC species.
 


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