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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8197768" data-attributes="member: 6915329">If a DM doesn't know that a person who wants to play a wizard should put a +2 in Int, or a person who wants to play a rogue should put that +2 in Dex, then maybe that DM should play a bit longer before taking up the mantle. I mean, I see building the setting around the player's choices. Because of reasons (introducing a new player to RPGs) I made my current setting to be PH-races only plus full-blood orcs, with the exception that players could pick something else later on. So far, we have two halflings, two tieflings, and an orc. I wrote up tieflings as a magical mutation that occurs when some people reach adolescence and said the book-standard tief was assumed to have been born to humans; the players could represent tieflings born to other races by switching out certain traits (this was before Tasha's, or even the Ancestries and Cultures books). We have a halfing/tief and an elf/tief who hates elves. As a result, I haven't really dealt with humans, dwarfs, or gnomes all that much, because they're less important to the players. Their most obnoxious villain--they decide if their foes deserve to die largely by how much of a dick they are--was a halfling cultist.But I don't understand how, if the players get to put a +2 wherever they want, that prevents me from building a setting I want. I decide how the various races live based on their other traits, or on cultural aspects that are either from D&D or that I make up. When you have a player who enjoys being an angst-monkey with low stats, sometimes you have to have limits. I mean, I oked him lowering his Int because he wanted his character to be slightly dumber than average,</blockquote>

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