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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scott Christian" data-source="post: 9831680" data-attributes="member: 6901101">See how you say "it's not massively preplanned." See how the other side is saying: It took a lot of work and tons of preplanning.Which one should have to compromise?As for your question, I would expect an answer. A conversation to happen between to people who want to game together. One has accepted the role as a player, the other the DM. I might hear something like this: Player: "So I have this cool idea based on the Ninja Turtles. I want to use nunchucks, be super agile, and have a protective armor. The tortle fits the bill. I really like the thought of using this shell on my back to jump and slide around in. I also like the idea of being able to hold my breath for an hour. And I know you said the world only has four races in it and no dimensional or astral travel. Will it throw the whole thing off if I am a tortle?" DM: "Unfortunately it will. Not to spoil the premise or anything, but the entire campaign is based around all the races dying. Most have been extinct for thousands of years. I have written a lot on the only piece of land left with life. You know, how the four kingdoms act towards one another. Their trade. Their secrets. To suddenly have an anomaly kind of goes against the religious and cultural flavors of the campaign."Player: "I got ya. So can we still try to build something like that?"DM: "Of course. There is a human species on an island. Their whole culture is maritime based. Coincidentally, they are also known for wearing masks during pirate raids. Why don't you start there, build away. Be creative. And let me know what you come up with. If you need the racial feat or anything like that, feel free to take it, just make sure to not take both the human's and tortle's. For example, take the hold breath feat they have, but just explain it away as part of your insane monk-style training or give yourself an item that allows you to do, a breath pebble or nose plugs that shoot oxygen into you or whatever else you can come up with."That is how I would expect it to go. And as far as I know, there is not a DM here that wouldn't acquiesce to that compromise. The only one not compromising is the one unable to give reasons and then start insulting DMs who have limits. Which is ironic, since they have limits too, it's just not a tortle.</blockquote>

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