Arilyn
Hero
They are banned five times in any campaign I run.
As someone who has been on a soapbbox about the importance of player choice....I find myself on the other side, when it comes to kender. Ban them, ban them all!
They are banned five times in any campaign I run.
Threads like this remind me why there are so many "bad DM" threads out there. It's the DM's job to create an atmosphere of fun, with help from the players. It is NOT the DM's job to beat the players over the head with asinine restrictions based on what he or she prefers to play. There are too many DMs out there who think it's acceptable to force their players to play the races/classes that the DM personally likes.
These DMs are particularly bad when it comes to race, and use fantasy racism to aggressively punish players who wanna play something besides the Tolkien retread races. Look, real life racism is bad enough and shouldn't exist. As a DM I personally have ZERO TOLERANCE for racism in a game environment, which is supposed to be fun and inclusive.
Can we maybe have a difference of opinion on what makes a fantasy roleplaying game fun without calling each other racists?Threads like this remind me why there are so many "bad DM" threads out there. It's the DM's job to create an atmosphere of fun, with help from the players. It is NOT the DM's job to beat the players over the head with asinine restrictions based on what he or she prefers to play. There are too many DMs out there who think it's acceptable to force their players to play the races/classes that the DM personally likes.
These DMs are particularly bad when it comes to race, and use fantasy racism to aggressively punish players who wanna play something besides the Tolkien retread races. Look, real life racism is bad enough and shouldn't exist. As a DM I personally have ZERO TOLERANCE for racism in a game environment, which is supposed to be fun and inclusive.
So I guess your one of those DM's that allow any alignments, any race and basically anything goes huh? Well, to us "bad" DM's that is just plain disruptive to the flow of the game. Players say they want a long running campaign, yet they want to play races and alignments that are disruptive to the harmony and to other players enjoyment of the campaign and my enjoyment to boot.
about 4 months ago, I ran 5 individuals through my Pathfinder campaign, all of them were playing either half orcs or that cat race whet ever it is called. All of them were chaotic stupid (neutral) and really disrupted the flow of the campaign with their murder hobo alignments and crazy ass character builds. For me as a DM it was not fun (especially when one of them likes killing kids), so I told them either you are good aligned and stick with core races or I am outta here. They decided not to play in my campaign. Funny thing is, like WoW, find players for a game is easy, finding DM's is not.
So stick that in your hat and call it macaroni lol
Scott
This sounds like you got stuck with immature players, which has nothing to do with arbitrary restrictions. Don't you think that this particular group of murder hobos would have disrupted your campaign, even if you had restricted them to core class/race combos and good alignments?
So I guess your one of those DM's that allow any alignments, any race and basically anything goes huh? Well, to us "bad" DM's that is just plain disruptive to the flow of the game. Players say they want a long running campaign, yet they want to play races and alignments that are disruptive to the harmony and to other players enjoyment of the campaign and my enjoyment to boot.
about 4 months ago, I ran 5 individuals through my Pathfinder campaign, all of them were playing either half orcs or that cat race whet ever it is called. All of them were chaotic stupid (neutral) and really disrupted the flow of the campaign with their murder hobo alignments and crazy ass character builds. For me as a DM it was not fun (especially when one of them likes killing kids), so I told them either you are good aligned and stick with core races or I am outta here. They decided not to play in my campaign. Funny thing is, like WoW, find players for a game is easy, finding DM's is not.
So stick that in your hat and call it macaroni lol
Scott
Without wackiness, I'm not sure it's D&D.Is your campaign enjoyable to you as the DM with the added wackiness?