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<blockquote data-quote="Greg K" data-source="post: 6771689" data-attributes="member: 5038"><p>I have no issues with Gnome in general. I have had them in nearly every campaign that i have run. Gnomes in Darksun? Not if I run as violates canon from the first boxed set. Travellers from other universes? No. It violates canon of the original boxed set. If it were Ravenloft (one of my other favorite settings), I would allow travellers from other worlds, because of the Mists. I would not allow Athas based characters, because of the canon. Forgotten Realms? yes. Greyhawk? yes. On the other hand, I may still ban certain PC races like Dragonborn, Drow, Shadar-Kai, etc , because I think they are lame, I don't want to deal with them. I will tell a player straight out.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Canon of the first boxed set is what I choose to go by. What happens in play and how it diverges from other groups or later material I don't care. Those are points where all individual campaigns diverge. When it is a canon issue of the first boxed set to not allow something, I will say that. When I choose not to go with later editions, because I don't like what *later* designers have done with the setting and I consider those later editions retcons/alternate versions, I have no problem saying that either.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I choose what the parameters are not the players. Once the parameters are set, then we have group discussions on characters. When I am a player in other campaigns of DMs that I know, it is the same way. </p><p>As for telling a fellow player that they can't play a character, because I don't like it? No. I am not the DM. However, I have walked out of the campaign, because I didn't enjoy playing with another player and their character. I have walked out of a group, because I didn't like any of the characters or the campaign. The former led to the a conversation and a change to the campaign, because he was not enjoying running for the same player and his character. In the case of the latter, I left them having fun, because they were all enjoying the campaign.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greg K, post: 6771689, member: 5038"] I have no issues with Gnome in general. I have had them in nearly every campaign that i have run. Gnomes in Darksun? Not if I run as violates canon from the first boxed set. Travellers from other universes? No. It violates canon of the original boxed set. If it were Ravenloft (one of my other favorite settings), I would allow travellers from other worlds, because of the Mists. I would not allow Athas based characters, because of the canon. Forgotten Realms? yes. Greyhawk? yes. On the other hand, I may still ban certain PC races like Dragonborn, Drow, Shadar-Kai, etc , because I think they are lame, I don't want to deal with them. I will tell a player straight out. Canon of the first boxed set is what I choose to go by. What happens in play and how it diverges from other groups or later material I don't care. Those are points where all individual campaigns diverge. When it is a canon issue of the first boxed set to not allow something, I will say that. When I choose not to go with later editions, because I don't like what *later* designers have done with the setting and I consider those later editions retcons/alternate versions, I have no problem saying that either. I choose what the parameters are not the players. Once the parameters are set, then we have group discussions on characters. When I am a player in other campaigns of DMs that I know, it is the same way. As for telling a fellow player that they can't play a character, because I don't like it? No. I am not the DM. However, I have walked out of the campaign, because I didn't enjoy playing with another player and their character. I have walked out of a group, because I didn't like any of the characters or the campaign. The former led to the a conversation and a change to the campaign, because he was not enjoying running for the same player and his character. In the case of the latter, I left them having fun, because they were all enjoying the campaign. [/QUOTE]
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