| Ologath |
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I didn't know whether to put this in General Discussion or Advice, since it is a little bit of both. The question is:
How much are you, as a GM, willing to change the campaign world (either homebrew or pre-gen) to accommodate character concepts that don't fit into the world?
Is it the GM's responsibility to adapt the world to the player's wants, or is it the player's responsibility to create characters that fit into the world?
I ask because I'm making a homebrew campaign world and I have a player who a) keeps changing character ideas and won't settle on one, and b) keeps coming up with concepts that don't fit into the world.
First he wanted to be a bare-knuckle boxer, so we looked at monk archetypes and I made a Victorian-like country since the world was still in early development.
Then he changed his mind and decided he wanted to play a necromancer cleric. Since I don't allow evil characters, I included Wee Jas as a god since she's a neutral goddess who allows undead. Then he says that he has no intent of following her guidelines to which I reply that clerics who spite their gods may lose their powers.
So then he wants to play a Russian Spy. Problem is, my world is finished (maps and all) and I have no Russian-like country to accommodate him. But he still wants me to make him one.
Then he wants to play an ice sorcerer but doesn't like the water elemental bloodline or the boreal bloodline and thus wants me to houserule him another ice-themed bloodline.
I've played with him for years and he's never done this before. I'm just worried about the effect this will have on the campaign.
I plan on talking to him about this, but I'm looking to the board for help. Should I keep changing my world to suit him, or tell him to accept what I've made and work with it?