| Shedeo |
I know that this is my first post on these forums, and in many online communities, that does me a disservice. Hopefully that will not be the case here.
The long story short is that I am running a Pathfinder game (my first one, but I am a veteran of many systems) for some old friends, one of which (we'll call him Charlie) is someone I have known since Kindergarten. Charlie tends to have a rather large and forceful personality, and so he convinced me to incorporate some houserules. They were simple little things, but I have long since come to the conclusion I need a twenty-four hour window to make any decisions in regards to rules changes or additional content. I decided to send out a posse of text messages to my players telling them that we will be doing things by the book, no exceptions. Charlie did not approve, but he seemed to take it better than I expected.
Charlie decided, however, that his character was not where he wanted him to be mechanically, and decided to use the race builder to make his own race. I am entirely unfamiliar with this tool, but told him I would take a look at it. Due to scheduling conflicts, it was a day or so after he mentioned it that he finally stopped by. Being as exhausted as I was, I skimmed over the race and approved it because, well, I did not have the energy for the war of attrition arguments with Charlie tend to be.
I haven't yet had the opportunity to look at the race builder, but he mentioned that it was 14 points, I don't know in comparison how good that is, but from what I remember, his proposed "fix" to the race in question was fairly potent.
Now I'm simply annoyed by it, and even though it will likely cause him to get pissed off, I am still tempted to tell him to only use the races available in the core book.
In my situation, what would you do? Am I in the wrong here (ie, being too overbearing and/or controlling of what my players do.)
tl;dr- DM approved a player-made race and now regrets doing so. What to do?