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One thing I think is worth considering here is where you are making these dividing lines. Monks are potentially more mobile than rogues, with more attacks (each hit weaker) and potentially better defenses.... but they lack a Rogue's skills and have a MUCH harder time using the ranged attacks...

Agree. Just offering a multitude of solutions

Oh, I understand that completely. But I feel like it would be easy enough to just say that the Dragonborn give birth to other dragonborn. So there is no original homeland, because all their parents were other groups, and they just band together to fight evil dragons. Giving rise to a nomadic...

I also learned recently that the original origin for Dragonborn, from the 3.5 Races of Dragons book, was that they are soldiers formed by Bahamut. According to that origin, all Dragonborn were originally a different species (elf, human, dwarf, ect) and undergo a ritual to devote themselves to...

"As the mysteries progress, the Mavens become aware of a Hellenic death cult called the Midwives of the Fragrant Void. This cult is the reason why there are so many murders in Brindlewood Bay—because it's all connected to the cult's Dark Conspiracy." "There is also a new section about the Dark...

Doesn't seem to be that long to me. The Immortal set, written by Frank Mentzer and released in 1986 was for characters who "had transcended levels" and had power points and ranks, along with the ability to "literally [able to] cast any magic spell in addition to new combat abilities." and well...

Can't spoil it, I don't like it anyways. But do you truly not understand the entire premise of suspension of disbelief? Sure, he rewrote it to get it closer to his vision. I'm an author, I understand that process, but I also get that much of rewriting is because things aren't "correct" for the...

Then I will toast the death of DnD as I celebrate the crowning of DnD.

Honestly, I think they are making good progress by simply cutting back the always evil tribal people, and presenting a more nuanced front. And yeah, there was (back in the day) CLEARLY a colonialist power fantasy at work, combined with this sort of warring states ideal of being the warlord who...

So you bought all the versions of the game until 4e, and have declared that if someone is getting started with DnD they can buy these new books then "in a year get them again and again and again." ... all because there have been five massive revisions of the game over the last fifty years...

It isn't a matter of authorship, it is a matter of readership. My character may not have seen the dice in the heavens, but the fiction does not exist within my character's mind. It exists within MY mind. And I cannot build a story that I take seriously as "pre-destined" while factually knowing...

And this is a point where I think there can be a lot of nuance that goes beyond the static imagery. The holy warrior that kills the unbeliever? Yep, that is bad, not a fan of that. The holy warrior that defends the faithful? I... don't explicitly have a problem with that. It is generally...

I think it also bears mentioning, that questing for Holy Relics was not unique to Medieval Europe. Jason and the Argonauts was a story specifically about a prince going on a quest for a Holy Relic, the Golden Fleece which was from a winged ram sacrificed to Zeus and symbolized kingship and...

UGH! That is like, my single biggest pet peeve about novels (in general). I cannot stand when the cover is just... wrong. Like depicting a protagonist who had brown-hair as a red-head, or giving them a weapon they never wield in the story. Drives me nuts

Yeah, I like the second one more. The top one feels much less like "intimidating monster mob boss" and more like "goofy familiar showing off his collection" Again, size makes a big difference here.

Well, there is a reason for that, beyond the paladin. We shouldn't make it easy to force a character into a specific action. I brought up the example before that I have played married characters before. Both times I told the DM, I had zero interest in the story taking the turn to show that my...

I keep repeating myself, because you keep repeating yourself. As well as condescending at me that I must not know what I am talking about. You claim that Fate breaks with what I am talking about, but Fate ALSO uses dice. Maybe you think I don't understand meta-mechanics that allow the shaping...

This is a tangent of a tangent, but I feel like you have continually gotten the wrong impression of what I believe. Especially if you think I disagree with the idea that the players get to decide what their convictions are and what those commitments demand of them. I fully support that. I...

Well, to be fair, most Fighters are heavily armored as well. I actually can't think of much fighter art that has taken the route of the archer, or even one that usually uses polearms if they aren't supposed to be a low-level guard. DnD visuals get a bit stale on that end, but I think that is...

True, I'm not sure anyone has denied that they were originally based on those tropes. I think most of the people who disagreed were far more pointing out the ways that the DnD paladin has moved past those explicit tropes. I won't say they aren't still on murky ground, but I would absolutely...