>run D&D >by default, players get to play as human >get to roll 1d10, IN FRONT OF ME, at chargen >on a 5 or less, they must play human >on a 6+ they get access to elves dwarves and halflings >on a 7+ they get access to gnomes, half-elves, half-orcs >on an 8+ they get access to full orcs, full hobgoblins, even dragonborn >on a 9+ they can play tieflings and drow >on a 10+ they can play whatever they want as long as it suits the campaign power level
I find this really helps weed out a lot of the cancerous players. So many of these fucks take a look at humans and say "nah that's not special snowflake enough for me". Nah, you can earn the privilege of playing these races. Or else get the fuck out of my game.
Noah Gomez
>earn the privilege >by rolling a die
Kevin Brooks
>by default, players get to play as human Well, since this is the most powerful race, I see no reason why I would complain. Playing anything else is just stupid.
Hunter Rogers
You sound like a terrible, unfun GM.
Please off yourself for your player's sake.
Juan Garcia
Players get to play different races depending on the setting. Some settings don't have elves. Some have everything. Some don't have Gnomes or Halflings because I just don't like them.
Zachary Jones
This. A lot of the games used to run were based in the HR books from 2E so human was mandatory.
Also I never saw a point in halflings they are not stealthy, just small. I usually replace them with goblins. The players who choose goblin tend to have a lot of fun playing them.
Logan Smith
Depends on the setting we're playing in. My players prefer humans, so usually most of the party will be humans.
Gabriel Adams
I like this. I'd play this. Do you any other rolled stuff with it? Like background events, actually rolling the starting cash, maybe stats. Rolling class might also be fun, like have a setting where not everyone is capable of magic, especially not the broadest full caster kind of magic.
Isaiah Barnes
Play gnomes like those gestapo fucks from Zilargo, god damn it. You have a solution, use it instead of banning things
Christian Gonzalez
This doesn't sound very fun at all. Why can't people play what they want to, as long as it fits the setting?
Ryan Martinez
I like you because my biggest turn off, as a player, is DM's that don't say no to half-ogre 5 prestige class, ultra-intelligent, Sherlock Holmes knock offs.
I get we are supposed to be fun but I don't find "le random" shit funny.
Adrian Gray
You sound like an assblasted autist. I am glad that I am not playing with you.
David Roberts
You sound like a fucking horrible DM.
Anthony Lewis
You'll find these same snowflakes bitching about 3D6 down the line. They're unable to conceive of a world where people roll for the specifics then construct a character around them.
Ryan Adams
>3D6 down the line Fun as a novelty, but I come into the game wanting to play a specific character and I don't want that to be made impossible by some shitty dice rolls.
Grayson Stewart
Newer players to the hobby will play default players handbook races. After some time where you're more familiar with the game and it's concepts then when your character dies you can get stranger with race choice.
Hudson Robinson
I was in a game like this. You had to roll 1d100. Depending on what you rolled you got to pick certain races. You would had to have rolled a 75 on the dice to even play something like Dragonborn.
Also, the DM had a house rule about losing a level each time you died. He also had a DM vs player mentality.
Both of these rules weren't fun in practice. I understood his reasoning. Just not enjoyable what so ever.
Gabriel Thompson
>Also, the DM had a house rule about losing a level each time you died. If you mean when you get resurrected your character is pushed back a level, that's a shitty way of trying to make resurrection more rare/meaningful. If you mean your new character gets a free level boost of your old character's level -1, that seems like a fair houserule. Helps the group avoid forever level 1 games.
Nicholas Phillips
As in, your new character would start one level below your last level or? That seems like it could snowball really fast.
Henry Adams
>run anima >play any race senpai >we on gaia so expect to get assfucked if people find out we'll discuss LA on the sidr
David Jenkins
It's the if you're ressurected, or make a roll a new character after your last character died you start off a 1 level lower than the entire group. The DM explained his reason for it. He said that to him it would make death meaningful, and for the players not to rush into battle.
Bentley Lopez
>EARN >Doesn't actually involve proving anything through good RP >Nope, just gotta get lucky >Somehow luck is good at weeding out shit players
Wow, sure as fuck am glad you'll never be my DM, holy shit.
Connor Cooper
>You'll find the same autists bitching about picking your stats with point buy. They're unable to concieve of a world where you can't just keep getting your characters killed on purpose until you get a set of god-rolls that make a character totally overpowered and break the game even worse than DnD is already broken.]
See, I can pretend to be retarded too, except when I'm doing it it's actually pretend.
Christian Parker
I actually dont know if this is bait because I could imagine a GM pulling this shit.
Justin Smith
>oh woe is me, i rolled low and have to play the best race mechanically!
I mean, in theory, it could be fun, but without your holier-than-thou attitude.
James Parker
Do you know what bait is? I know of a DM who did this. It didn't turn out well for his group, because he included some real bullshit options and didn't think it through, but I love Traveler-like lifepath character generation to the point I roll my initial career in that so roll-based and restrictive character making for D&D sounds great to me.
Samuel Cox
Rolled 2 (1d10)
actually, let's see if i can play a fucking catgirl in your game. It's 10% chance, after all
oh no, a free feat. Truly mine is the life of suffering.
Fuck it, let's 3d6 this shit.
Andrew Flores
>10+ >1d10
Wat.
Gabriel Price
dice+1d10 Bring it on.
Henry Martin
Rolled 1 (1d10)
Christopher Ramirez
dubs and truthful.
Connor Barnes
Rolled 9 (1d10)
Well I know I'm playing a low-Int race.
Ayden Turner
I agree. If a GM said he uses a chart to roll for race I'd be down for it, it's the follow-up justification and the implication that this is what he does for every campaign and other means are strictly inferior that generates backlash.
Special snowflakes don't feel special if everyone else is also a special snowflake. Seriously, tho.
I'd like to be in a party of 4 humans and 1 exiled prince tiefling, whether or not I'm not one playing the tief. We get to have cool character development with this weird outsider.
I don't really want to play in a party of a dragonborn, a warforged, an aasimar, a sentient gelatinous cube, and a tiefling.
Veeky Forums likes to hate on "edgy", "snowflake", "mary sue", etc. characters. But I think those kinds of characters can add a cool dynamic to a party. The problem is that they start to compete for attention when you have more than one of them.
Rolling for fey corgi
Parker Morales
Double checked.
Dylan Nelson
You two are going to do perfectly fine!
Cooper Reed
Hey, hey, many classes in 2e don't have any stat requirements.
I can be a thief or a fighter, cleric as well.
Looks like
Christopher James
You three now have to form a party.
Mason Long
I let them play whatever they want in the swing except for elves.
I've NEVER had a player make an elf that wasn't trying to be edgy. 90% of the time they make a Rogue/Ranger and suffer from special snowflake syndrome.
Nathan Thomas
Setting not swing.
Austin Edwards
I've had really good experiences with Elf Wizards, because being superior and acting like they know anything fits both elves and wizards really well, so most players can pull it off decently.
Christian Nelson
Yeah, this'll stop that fucking snowflake from playing his edgy tieflings and drow! >he rolls a 10
Zachary Campbell
Fun idea, shit justification. In fact, you could probably grab your favorite fantasy game's reincarnation table and have people roll on that to determine character race. Would be fun for a one-shot.
Christian Perez
I second that.
Josiah Hall
>but I come into the game wanting to play a specific character Do I even have to say it?
Daniel Baker
Either play a human or fuck right off - humano-centric world
Cameron Sullivan
Rolled 8 (1d10)
Whatevs OP. I'm rolling. It's wha you want. We all know it.
Maybe I can be a hobgoblin or something. Those are pretty cool.
Cooper Sanchez
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Anthony Thomas
Rolled 1 (1d10)
If you don't like the special snowflake races, why not make them NPC-only or just exclude them from the setting?
I handle things case by case but I tend to leave non-humans NPC only due to the nature of the setting. I would let my players pick from around 90 human ethnicities but most would be restricted due to the location/tone of the campaign. Exotic characters aren't going to be present in low level cavaliering, but if it's a large scale campaign with a lot of travel, then I'm open to more diverse humans. If the situation is appropriate then they can play a non-human, but certain non-humans cause a hassle and are forever blocked.
also, rolling
Jaxon Nguyen
That sounds like a shit thing. Eh. If your players like it then whatevs.
Carter Jackson
That sounds ducking stupid no matter the setting you're in
William Gomez
>You sound like a terrible, unfun GM.
Except I'm not. That's why my players request me to GM for them over and over despite my autistic rules.
Christian Torres
>You have a solution, use it instead of banning things
Except I don't want to have gnomes in my setting. >Why can't people play what they want to, as long as it fits the setting?
Because I don't want them to. I want a homogenized setting where most adventurers are humans instead of some Mos Eilsey freak show.
Mason Miller
Thanks user.
You sound like a whiny furry who wants to play a gnoll. I am glad I am not playing with you.
You sound like you've never DMed in your life, only been a parasite player. Or maybe you have DMed in your life and put in zero effort and thus ran a shit game, and people just continued to play along to avoid hurting your feelings.
Lincoln Sanders
>Also, the DM had a house rule about losing a level each time you died.
New characters start 1 level below the average party level. And honestly if you die repeatedly you should just quit RPGs because you are playing like a retard, I don't run campaigns that retardedly. Try harder.
Cameron Nelson
Fair. Perhaps "earn" was a bad choice of words. However, "earn" is also subjective and arbitrary so I figured by setting a flat probability I would weed out players who want to play snowflake races. Because even experienced players should not be playing those races constantly.
>Wow, sure as fuck am glad you'll never be my DM, holy shit.
For all you know, I will. I don't use that method in every campaign, especially if people get autistic over it which they usually do. I just tend to target non-humans more often in combat, or create Ranger opponents that have their race as favored enemy and thus target them first.
Brayden Parker
No homebrews and splat races are only allowed on a player by player basis. Fetish fuel is automatically vetoed.
Asher Butler
>tricking people into playing non-humans on anima You are truly the most evil of shitposters here.
Eli Baker
At least people with shit taste keep to their containment groups
Gabriel Ortiz
Why are humans considered a race? They are a species. It would be great to choose between different races.