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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Belen" data-source="post: 9544892" data-attributes="member: 1405">Except that once it is the default assumption, you will have people arguing that you must allow the default assumption.We have had multiple recent threads where people argued that a DM should not restrict PHB races. They argued that PHB default was the expectation and that a DM must allow it in their game.5.5 does a lot to try to infer that a good DM follows the RAW in order to be "fair."I agree with you that it should not restrict individual tables except that you have people arguing that it should.For me, this is the main argument surrounding default assumptions in the book. The culture used to assume that the core books were strong guidelines but that you should not expect every table to allow every species etc, but there seems to be a shift, and WOTC would like it to happen, towards everyone should be using the baseline defaults because that is how D&D (the brand) should be played.Basically, as long as you do not mess with my table, I do not care.</blockquote>