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We don't need to hide. There aren't many of us to begin with, nobody even remembers we are there, and nobody's looking for us.

Indeed. If you create characters who have personal proclivities for following the thing through to the end, then they don't really notice the rails, and there's little issue with immersion over them. I am running The Wild Beyond the Witchlight right now, which is kind a set of small sandboxes...

You elide from our real world history to D&D world history, without recognition that they are likely not terribly similar. In many cosmologies, the game world, all its creatures, and its sophonts are created by deific powers, rather than developed as the result of natural processes. Those...

The only constant is change.

Rule 76: Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.

Um... no. There was a time in our evolution before we had fire, but nocturnal predators with better night vision than we existed. If fire is the entirety of our defense, then we should not have lived long enough to learn to make fire. The real answer is that natural predation almost never...

The character, you mean? Okay, let me see if I can lay out my thought process in coming up with him. This is gonna be long, so I'll put it behind spoiler tags for those who aren't interested....

It really depends on the underlying metaphysics you are choosing - it may not be a "selection" scenario at all. Over the pandemic, I was invited to play in a game online. Recognizing that online play really isn't great for the level of social-interaction roleplay, I thought to create a...

Mod Note: The problem here is that you are complaining about how long people hold grudges as an unrepentant defense of behavior that incites people to hold grudges. Thread closed.

Mod Note: "I am sorry if my joke offended you," is a non-apology, placing blame on the offended party. Unless you want to claim that you lack the native wit to realize that what you were doing was going to antagonize people, or that somehow that result was hidden from you, you are stuck with...

Mod Note: Hey. How about you all stop willfully and intentionally mocking people, like, right now. Please and thanks.

So, this is a general sci-fi kind of question really. One that is hard to answer solidly, because we only have the one example of technologically advanced species to go on. I note that D&D is a fantasy game. It isn't really there to ask the speculative question, "What if...?" Heck, in D&D...

But, it isn't a "mistake", any more than your appendix is a mistake*. And maybe we should treat it like the appendix - if it ain't broke, don't fix it. It is there. Normally, it causes no issue. If, in a particular body, it causes a problem, it can be excised without minimal difficulty...

You say that as if the universe/multiverse is somehow obligated to make sense to mortals, or take their "condition" into account. Gravity, for example, is a harsh mistress. It does not give a hoot about the human condition. Gravity hears your assertion, ignores it, and you fall from the...

Well, maybe they can, and maybe they can't. That's kind of the point - different GMs run things differently. Indeed, it raises the question whether the characters likely aren't so well educated on metaphysics as to know, with sufficient certainty, that they can act against some creatures...

The question, though, is through how many generations in the chain do we hold a work responsible for the problems of the predecessors? For how long do the sins of the fathers fall upon the children? But, the case in question is rather the opposite. Some of the original referent is, by modern...

There is no one "the cosmology" for D&D. Cosmology is a setting element, and can vary from one person's campaign world to another.

Indeed. If you fight without mercy, how are you different from the Evil you are supposedly fighting?

I don't have magic weapons or armor.

Absolutist positions about gaming are also a problem. OneTrueWay and all that.