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    D&D (2024) DMG and Pf2e GM Core... Same design philosophy?

    I'm pretty critical of WotC, but if I'm being honest, I think a lot of the time the random tables hold almost no use for me compared to what can be found on websites like Donjon and such. I don't think this is a move against homebrewing a setting as much as offering an alternative (and one...
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    Pathfinder 2E Pathfinder 2e Remastered for the 5e players (+)

    Yeah. Like, it takes a bit of time to internalize and look for the term "Basic _____ Save", but it's one of those useful distinctions that comes up a bunch and really streamlines spells instead of having to know every spell inside and out. I see that, I instantly know the damaging scaling for...
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    Pathfinder 1E AP Advice

    That's not necessarily a bad thing if your players can go along with it. Being able to have an initial adventure, nail the bad guy, and then have a point where certain characters can continue on while others can be switched out (because the players might want to do something different) isn't...
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    Pathfinder 2E Favourite Changes in the Remaster?

    A lot of just the straight-up buffs? Like the Barbarian is no longer Clumsy and can basically Rage as a free action to start, which is great for their action economy. Also the improvements to the War Priest which make it a proper fighting Cleric. The Investigator now being able to do something...
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    Pathfinder 2E Never give up on PF2

    Sure, but the ability to fix problems often depend on how open the system is to a fix. In the case of the skill system, things were designed in such a way that makes this very easy compared to 5E, where I think the problems are different and require deeper solutions. But this was based on @payn...
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    Paizo Paizo Updates Pathfinder/Starfinder Licenses

    I mean, being smaller certainly helps, though when they step in it more they get a whole lot of criticism, too. Though I think, typically, they are a bit more responsive than Wizards for obvious reasons; not being a corporate giant can help them move a bit faster on critiques, and given that...
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    D&D Historian Benn Riggs On Gary Gygax & Sexism

    It's literally vague. Saying you saw two posters in a thread of 1,800 responses is vague, like me saying "There are specifically two cars here that are stolen" in an airport parking lot and me refusing to say which ones. Which is why it'd be helpful to post what you're talking about instead of...
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    D&D Historian Benn Riggs On Gary Gygax & Sexism

    I feel like if you are going to make vague generalizations that you say you have proof for, you should be able to provide the proof, especially when it should be pretty simple. It feels really disingenuous to try and handwave it away.
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    D&D Historian Benn Riggs On Gary Gygax & Sexism

    Bud, just quote it. Kind of amazed that we've reached such levels of sophistry that we have to now prove that someone was thinking sexist thoughts for something creating something where he ended up declaring "Take that, Women's Libbers!" Getting into some real "But how can anyone know what...
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    D&D Historian Benn Riggs On Gary Gygax & Sexism

    Do you have an actually citation, rather than just a vibe?
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    D&D Historian Benn Riggs On Gary Gygax & Sexism

    Buddy, I have. You can clarify, but the problem is that it's not changing what you are doing.
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    D&D Historian Benn Riggs On Gary Gygax & Sexism

    But that's not what's going on: people are trying to deflect and sanitize it, while others simply don't want to recognize it at all. You keep talking about "disagreements", but you are always quick to label the side that goes against this stuff as self-righteous while being empathetic the other...
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    D&D Historian Benn Riggs On Gary Gygax & Sexism

    That's not what is going on: it's people raging at a content warning. This is not a discussion on the value of content warnings, it's people talking about Gary Gygax being defamed and slandered by it. We don't need to hear people express those opinions because they are not only unjustified but...
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    D&D Historian Benn Riggs On Gary Gygax & Sexism

    This is pablum. This isn't a nuanced read, this is just enabling people by saying "Why don't we open it up to all viewpoints?" and letting people spew hate at people unnecessarily. No, I think tasteless jokes are less about being funny and more about signaling to ingroups and belittling...
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    D&D Historian Benn Riggs On Gary Gygax & Sexism

    You're just muddying things unnecessarily. People can be complicated doesn't mean we can't just outright say they were sexist. "Letting people have different reactions" in this case is just enabling a hate mob in a culture war battle. That doesn't really make it better. Again, you're just...
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    D&D Historian Benn Riggs On Gary Gygax & Sexism

    You're posting a lot of words for something very simple. These kinds of threads aren't creating targets, the people in them who want to explain away Gary, Rob, et al. are defending targeting. That's the long and short. I don't really see that as the case here, especially when you seem to roil...
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    D&D Historian Benn Riggs On Gary Gygax & Sexism

    You like using this idea of "righteous anger" when someone critiques someone like Kuntz, but you don't seem to attribute Kuntz's overreaction as the same sort of thing, which is weird because his anger seems way closer to the sort of thing you are describing. Then you should stop trying to...
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    D&D Historian Benn Riggs On Gary Gygax & Sexism

    No, it's largely culture war. This stuff happens all the time outside of RPGs, this is just culture war stuff of recognizing bad stuff for what it was, rather than gloss over or even wax nostalgic on it for some people. The reason parts of a small paragraph in an introduction matter are just...
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    D&D Historian Benn Riggs On Gary Gygax & Sexism

    Ah, I like that we've found the magic third thing that "rising star" Gina Carano was "cancelled" for, which kind of shows how dumb this whole tangent was in the first place. It can all basically be summed in one tweet: I think there is actually a decent historical example of what people would...
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