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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8593030" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Oh please. The beleaguered victim DM card? Really? And in such hyperbolic terms? Pull the other one. Such poor, misunderstood, abused creatures DMs are. They only have near absolute power and zero checks on that power other than players dropping the nuclear option and abandoning the table. How can they hope to have any fun or do anything interesting in the face of such cruel, malicious players, with their petulant and mocking demands?! How can they fulfill their artistic vision with pugnacious players who won't even listen to their weary, browbeaten DM trying to explain that no, you can't play a dragonborn, they don't fit in this world of crazy fantastical creatures and open defiance of physics and biology, they're insufficiently verisimilitudinous, no it has nothing whatever to do with the absolutely objective fact that they're a dumb powergamer* snowflake race.Maybe that vaunted &quot;DM empowerment&quot; so many crowed about, back when 5e was in playtest, created more of a pushback than you expected. Maybe people expect DMs who actually talk with them and work through their reasoning, being open to alternate paths or pursuing consensus if it can be reached.*AN: For the record, PHB dragonborn are actually one of the weakest races, if not the outright weakest, in the PHB. Yet they're extremely popular, one of the top 4 options even if you lump together all elves (except half-elves) as a single race.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8593030, member: 6790260"] Oh please. The beleaguered victim DM card? Really? And in such hyperbolic terms? Pull the other one. Such poor, misunderstood, abused creatures DMs are. They only have near absolute power and zero checks on that power other than players dropping the nuclear option and abandoning the table. How can they hope to have any fun or do anything interesting in the face of such cruel, malicious players, with their petulant and mocking demands?! How can they fulfill their artistic vision with pugnacious players who won't even listen to their weary, browbeaten DM trying to explain that no, you can't play a dragonborn, they don't fit in this world of crazy fantastical creatures and open defiance of physics and biology, they're insufficiently verisimilitudinous, no it has nothing whatever to do with the absolutely objective fact that they're a dumb powergamer* snowflake race. Maybe that vaunted "DM empowerment" so many crowed about, back when 5e was in playtest, created more of a pushback than you expected. Maybe people expect DMs who actually talk with them and work through their reasoning, being open to alternate paths or pursuing consensus if it can be reached. *AN: For the record, PHB dragonborn are actually one of the weakest races, if not the outright weakest, in the PHB. Yet they're extremely popular, one of the top 4 options even if you lump together all elves (except half-elves) as a single race. [/QUOTE]

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