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And if they do trivialize a potential encounter? So what? There are a lot of encounters in a D&D world that can be expected to be trivial - easily avoided, easily defeated, or dealt with via interaction. Lots of scouting about in the wilderness? Flyers draw attention and are relatively easy to spot. Got an underground chasm you are worried that flyers may trivialize? Add cave fishers or darkmantles who can keep the situation hazardous. Worried that flying PCs will trivialize an obstacle? Add things/creatures to the area that can complicate the situation. The balance of power in this relationship is still in the DM's hands. The difference is I recognize that the DM always has and will have functionally unlimited choices no matter what their PCs throw at them if they want to challenge them. Considering I'm behind the DM's screen considerably more than half the time I'm playing D&D, I know quite well the cost of setting up challenges for a group of creative players. вЂњI get to do whatever I want and the DM just has to deal with it.вЂќ But then itвЂ™s having fun at the expense of the DM rather than in collaboration with the DM. I guess you could simply not care how much work that is. I get that, as a player, you want infinite choices and all the skip buttons, but that means exponentially more work for the DM to prepare something that will actually challenge the party. The more choices the DM has, the fewer choices the players have. The more choices the players have, the fewer choices the DM has. Unfortunately, this aspect of the game really is zero sum. вЂњThe playersвЂ™ precious character choices.вЂќ But thatвЂ™s not a great argument.

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Because it is.Д«ut now try to use a tad bit of empathy and recognize that the DM feels exactly the same way when their choices are limited by PC choices.ДЄnd when the players object to choices being removed, I imagine the DM could make much the same argument as you have. Even if you werenвЂ™t going to use the stuff the DM banned, it still feels like less choice. And when the DM says no flying races, no multiclassing, no variant humans, no outlander background, no feats, or bans certain feels like your choices are restricted.

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When you go to make your character you want the full range of options available to you so that you can make whatever you want to play.

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And DMs now are just as free to say no, but letвЂ™s not pretend the expectations of the player base hasnвЂ™t drastically shifted over time. Yes, there were flying PC races back in the day. They solved the riddle and discovered the cache of treasure. They outsmarted the mastermind and earned a boon. They feel cool because they beat the really tough monster and found a magic item. IвЂ™m down with being a fan of the PC and IвЂ™m good with them feeling cool and special, I just want it to be because of something they did in game to earn it. They made a character creation choice that gave them a skip button. PC with flight didnвЂ™t earn feeling cool or special. One more skip button in a game festooned with skip buttons. PC flight seems like one more way for players to decide they donвЂ™t want the game to be challenging. ItвЂ™s about the risk and the challenge and seeing if your character can survive despite the low stats and hit points. I guess I still have my head in the old-school way of gaming.

Aarakocra and fairies are just another way to get to the same place as a wizard with an owl or a beast master with an eagle. If it weren't so easy for a low-level party to push into tier 2 already, I would object strongly to 'flight at level 1' races.

When you hit third level, warlocks get Pact of the Chain, beast master rangers can call flying companions, and so forth. An owl or hawk familiar allows the party to reap most of the benefits of tier 2 right there. It doesn't actually make much difference whether the flying thing is a PC. Going to tier 3 allows the party to soar merrily over all manner of obstacles and threats, and demolish melee enemies at no risk to themselves.Д«UT: The find familiar spell means tier 2 is already available from the start. Going to tier 2 opens up room for aerial scouting, sending a flyer to tie a rope or retrieve an object, and 'air support' in combat.

The party is mostly ground-bound, but some portion of it can fly.Д®ach tier dramatically expands the PCs' capabilities, which in turn closes off a bunch of options for the DM in adventure design.

The party has no flight capacity at all.

In my experience, flight breaks down into three tiers:

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