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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5109336" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>Generally, I myself enjoy the cantina for my own games. I love Planescape, and that lets me play d6's with mechanical limbs, eerie faces, and a predilection for making sense out of nonsense. </p><p></p><p>But I recognize that it is not always what you want in a game.</p><p></p><p>What bothers me (and only a little) about the Cantina being the default in 4e is that settings that want to limit options more have bigger problems doing so officially, leading to an exclusion of awesome things that don't have a lot of species diversity.</p><p></p><p>Like, if 4e Dark Sun feels the need to include Eladrin as a key component, I will be a Sad Panda.</p><p></p><p>If 4e can have some balls and can nix some races where they're not welcome, this is merely an academic concern.</p><p></p><p>I think the Cantina is a <em>little</em> out of place in PoLland, but only a little.</p><p></p><p>And I specifically think Dragonborn have a silly name (though the concept of a warrior-race is nice), and Tieflings were better when they were gutter-trash instead of being haughty imperial also-rans from Conan fanfic, and blink elves have kind of a silly main ability that exacerbates my dislike of pushing minis around on a plastic board, but those are all much more specific cricitisms. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>I don't have any problem with default 4e being a cantina, as long as they can kick things out of settings where such things do not belong. Kind of like it, actually.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 5109336, member: 2067"] Generally, I myself enjoy the cantina for my own games. I love Planescape, and that lets me play d6's with mechanical limbs, eerie faces, and a predilection for making sense out of nonsense. But I recognize that it is not always what you want in a game. What bothers me (and only a little) about the Cantina being the default in 4e is that settings that want to limit options more have bigger problems doing so officially, leading to an exclusion of awesome things that don't have a lot of species diversity. Like, if 4e Dark Sun feels the need to include Eladrin as a key component, I will be a Sad Panda. If 4e can have some balls and can nix some races where they're not welcome, this is merely an academic concern. I think the Cantina is a [I]little[/I] out of place in PoLland, but only a little. And I specifically think Dragonborn have a silly name (though the concept of a warrior-race is nice), and Tieflings were better when they were gutter-trash instead of being haughty imperial also-rans from Conan fanfic, and blink elves have kind of a silly main ability that exacerbates my dislike of pushing minis around on a plastic board, but those are all much more specific cricitisms. ;) I don't have any problem with default 4e being a cantina, as long as they can kick things out of settings where such things do not belong. Kind of like it, actually. [/QUOTE]
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