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the fact that they are self selected, any survey you post on the internet for people to come and fill out is. That basically is the definition of self-selected

and don’t forget the time where they dropped something that got more than the 70% threshold vote regardless of that, because some comments really did not like the idea The main issue is even deeper, it is that there is no good way to actually communicate intent (outside of always leaving a...

no, that is my assessment of their methodology and their handling of feedback. Their approach is about as good at identifying improvements and then sticking to working on them as tossing a coin would be. Where it considerably beats a coin toss is at identifying total duds and discarding them...

the idea was to find a compromise, not to shoot everything down, remember?

yeah, he can say that he designed it like that, that doesn’t change that the effort to add a species is not all that different from doing so in FR or Greyhawk however

that is a non sequitur

will do FR was built with that in mind too, at least in its recent iterations, there just is no Keith who said so out loud you have not made a case yet, only a claim that is refuted by Keith’s actual quote

which is the exact reversal of the situation we have. The player knows the allowed species and insists on one not on the list. Or to stay in guest and host terms, they knew the menu and now throw a tantrum because they want the host to prepare a dish that was not on it

I take it you are new to this thread and skipped straight to the end…

I have to do pretty much the same work to add tortles in FR or Greyhawk as I have to do to add them to Eberron. They are not mentioned in any of their setting books (as far as I know), so I can put them in some remote location and be done with it or try to give them more of a backstory by adding...

I’d say you equated the DM denying the player to play a tortle with the DM being a bad host but apparently did not consider the player being a bad guest for choosing a species the DM explicitly did not allow.

no one says they cannot be added, I only say that they are not in it unless they get added by the DM

no it isn’t, Keith even said so directly, see the part I quoted. The Eberron setting mentions some species, presumably Tortles are not mentioned. My Eberron game includes what is mentioned in the setting book but does not include tortles. I did nothing to exclude them, and yet they are not in...

you know who else also is bound by good manners? Guests, or they will have been guests for the last time, and maybe even get kicked out right then and there…

apparently what Keith said is ““If it’s in D&D it has a place in Eberron” – it’s up to you if you want to put it there.” https://keith-baker.com/what-have-you-done-with-eberron/ So no, it is not exclusively not in Eberron because the DM ‘desired to exclude it’, as you put it. It can also not...