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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 9831733" data-attributes="member: 7026617">Both.  Amount of work is not an excuse to ignore the interests of a player.  That's the road that leads down to GM supremecy.  I do plenty of work for my campaigns, but that doesn't let me off the hook; it limits how far I'll go, but that's not the same thing as not doing any lifting at all to try and reach the player's interests.I gave an answer.  Its a look-and-feel thing.  That's probably been the reason for the majority or racial choices most people have ever made that were not based on mechanical elements.  If you want more than that, you're asking for things answers that don't exist.And as noted, this is not really a compromise if look-and-feel of a turtleman is what the person was looking for.There may be a few cases where there is no useful compromise possible, as seems the case in the extremely specific example at hand.  But don't kid yourself its a compromise.  Its not.  Its offering an alternative that may well be entirely besides the point.</blockquote>