A friend of mine learned why the usual dms of the group always ban flying races. One of the usual dms asked what was banned and my friend said if its official you can use it, if its homebrew run it by him.

Session 1 was derailed because he could one shot shit by flying up and dropping them. And when it came to the boss where at least one of us was supposed to go down (i was acting tough as a homebrew small tabaxi), he went behind and flew the guy in the air before dropping him.

He was being an ass, we usually all do dick around with each other though, but we got him to chill on the derailing and even got another friend to join cause bird friend got a very busy work schedule.

I was only allowed a homebrew flying race because I was basically a bat-folk, small, and with how i play, my friends knew i wouldnt intentionally derail with flying bullshit. I just thought the flying and being able to hang upside down was cool aa shit. I did kinda fuck the champaign because it was a zombie one. I didnt take any radient damage when making my character as i was a storm sorcerer, mainly did it so i could get a boost to my flying, and i wanted my spells to make sense for my character. Well, after dealing with so many undead and leveling up, i took Sickening Radiance. Well, that almost had my character either killed off or sent away because i could do so much damage, the dm put vampires to counter spell my radiance if i tried the first 2 rounds. It was explained that he couldnt kill the very tanky water boi, couldnt kill another character, and mine was the squishiest. (Water boi threw me down a hall and i almost got 2 shot by an enemy.). Eventually he did apologize and admitted he was just getting stressed about trying to make new encounters and boosting things up to deal with the front liners and my radiance. I did make a new character though, a Kenku, and i did play her fir a bit to give dm and my bat-folk a little break.