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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5855509" data-attributes="member: 7006">Rarity is a good indicator for new players and new DMs.&nbsp; It's easy to explain, easy to judge, and EASY TO COMPLETELY IGNORE IF YOUR &quot;PERSONAL&quot; CAMPAIGN SETTING DOESN'T FOLLOW IT.Jeez... with all the talk everyone goes on and on about wanting to &quot;expand the player base&quot; in order to keep the game relevant for the future... some people sure seem to want to completely strip away anything that might actually help those people.&quot;Don't include a default setting in the DMG... it goes against MY campaign setting!&quot;&quot;Don't include basic cultural touchstones for your typical or campaign-neutral dwarves or elves... they aren't how MY dwarves and elves behave or live!&quot;&quot;Don't tell me that monks tend to be a smaller subset of church warrior than clerics... MY game is completely DOMINATED by roving bands of monks!&quot;Sheesh.&nbsp; You'd think that just using words like &quot;occasionally&quot;, &quot;usually&quot;, &quot;oftentimes&quot; or &quot;tend&quot; would pretty much solve any problems of this type (since they all leave a nice wide door open to have things NOT be that way)... but apparently not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 5855509, member: 7006"] Rarity is a good indicator for new players and new DMs. It's easy to explain, easy to judge, and EASY TO COMPLETELY IGNORE IF YOUR "PERSONAL" CAMPAIGN SETTING DOESN'T FOLLOW IT. Jeez... with all the talk everyone goes on and on about wanting to "expand the player base" in order to keep the game relevant for the future... some people sure seem to want to completely strip away anything that might actually [I]help[/I] those people. "Don't include a default setting in the DMG... it goes against MY campaign setting!" "Don't include basic cultural touchstones for your typical or campaign-neutral dwarves or elves... they aren't how MY dwarves and elves behave or live!" "Don't tell me that monks tend to be a smaller subset of church warrior than clerics... MY game is completely DOMINATED by roving bands of monks!" Sheesh. You'd think that just using words like "occasionally", "usually", "oftentimes" or "tend" would pretty much solve any problems of this type (since they all leave a nice wide door open to have things NOT be that way)... but apparently not. [/QUOTE]

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