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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 6772853" data-attributes="member: 6785785">After all the discussion here, I think it's clear that both sides are responsible for the game and each side should be open to restrictions and/or exceptions. For me, I feel like it falls to the DM to be final arbiter of things because so much of the work falls to him/her, and also because DMs to me are probably among the most creative folks at the table.Which I guess is why it's so jarring for me to see DMs say they never allow X in their game because there's no way X can add anything. How do you know that if it's never been allowed? And why not work with the player to see if together you can make X interesting in some way?There are plenty of races that I generally don't like. I'm honestly not a big fan for gnomes, despite my stance earlier in the thread about them and Dark Sun. I don't really like Warforged (but I'm not a big Ebberon guy). Drow PCs aren't that big a deal, and I've had maybe 3 or 4 over the years. I felt like they brought an interesting dynamic to the game. I had a player who wanted to play a Shadovar. It seemed like a bad idea to me at first, but I worked with him on the character's backstory and agenda and it became a fundamental aspect of a campaign. At first, I was resistant to Dragonborn, but I got over that. I think it was just a gut reaction to resist such a change. I suppose I'm just a bit surprised to see folks that I would consider creative be so closed-minded to certain things without there being a strong reason for it.</blockquote>

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