Playing monstrous creatures

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Kill yourself.

Get out of here youngster

my fist priority as a DM is to help my players have fun, if a game isn't fun then whats the point?
if a player comes to me with an interesting concept that happens to be a monster i'm totally cool with it, provided it meets a few requirements.
1. it doesn't wreck all sense of game ballence
- if it makes it so others can't have fun because they're to overpowered then we've got a problem. in this case i try to rework the character before asking them to retire it.
2. the chosen race exists within the setting and could reasonably be inserted.
- for instance, no you can't play a drow noble in the redwall setting. but i will totally stat up a pygmy marmoset for you if you can help be draw up a culture for them that i can insert into the setting somewhere.
3. their concept doesn't fly in the face of all common sense given established lore, be it mine or from the book.
- that said if someone comes to me with a well thought out explanation for why this half demon is a paladin of [insert lawful good god] and are willing to role play it well, exceptions can be made.
4. it isn't blatant fetish bait.
- playing a "furry" race is fine, i do that all the time myself. spending time every session reminding everyone how voluptuous your kitsune is and trying to yiff every NPC that crosses your path is very not ok. my games do not exist to top off your spank bank. that said, i'm not the boner police. if you keep it on the DL and don't make everyone uncomfortable on a regular basis i don't give a fuck what you do to yourself when you get home.

players of monsters should be ready to be on the receiving end of some good old fantasy racism. you wanna be a gnoll, fine but everyone's gonna treat you like like they would any gnoll until you prove to them you aren't like every other gnoll they've met/heard about. as long as their concept is believable and well role played i see no reason not to let them play it. if that's what fun to them then i want to facilitate that fun.

>my fist priority
*Giggle*

Also:
>playing a "furry" race is fine
see pic

i knew the mere mention of tolerating furrys would draw this kind of comment from someone. congrats on being the first aboard the bandwagon.
though i fail to see what's so funny about making fun a priority.

You wrote 'fist' instead of 'first'.
So it sounds like you're ensuring the 'fun' of your players with more than just good world building.

Change Elf to Dwarf and you got it right. Not that being xenophobic is a bad thing

>Not that being xenophobic is a bad thing

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Don't bring /pol/ into this you faggot