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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 6337924" data-attributes="member: 29398">RACE:At campaign start I'll sometimes force the race, based on where they're starting out; and other races can join in later.Barbarian in my game is a sub-race of Human, not a class, and always will be.There are no Halflings in my games.  There are, however, Hobbits.Otherwise, for races I don't tend to outright ban things but if you want something uncommon (this includes Gnomes) you have to risk rolling on a racial abundance table and being stuck with what you get; you're most likely going to end up with one of the basic races anyway but (un)lucky rolling can get you into a Leprechaun, Hobgoblin, Dryad, Sylph, or a bunch of other quasi-playable races.  You can also get into some unusual versions of standard races here - Gray, Arctic and Dark Elves, for example.I can't see myself ever allowing Dragonborn or Tieflings in any game or system, ditto Warforged unless I for some odd reason was running a steampunk campaign.CLASS:I have 14 classes in my game - Cleric (War. Normal, Nature-a.k.a.-Druid), Fighter, Cavalier, Paladin, Ranger, Magic-User, Illusionist, Necromancer, Thief, Assassin, Bard, Monk.  That's it.  A few specific race-class combinations are banned - there are no Dwarf Wizard-types, for example - but I'm way more lenient than RAW 1e ever was; and most of the old racial level limits are long gone too.  That said, I think if I ever start another campaign I'm going to put a few restrictions back in.Paladins aren't banned but they are somewhat discouraged by...ALIGNMENT:...any alignment being allowed, and played.  In my current campaign PC Necromancers in total have outnumbered PC Paladins 3-1 (and there's been about 6 PC Assassins as well, mostly multi-classed with something else); and if the party want to fight each other instead of the enemy it's all fine with me.PSYONICS:After years and years of trying to make them functional but not broken, I finally ditched them for PCs and most monsters. Some iconics e.g. Demons, Mind Flayers, etc. still have them, and are thus even more dangerous.Lanefan</blockquote>

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