I would just like to point out that for a certain segment of the community, including myself, this post is highly offensive. I won't go into why for the sake of civility.
The principal argument for adjusting the representation of race in D&D is that negative representations influence your thought about and/or actions towards real-world individuals. If I understand the argument correctly.
This rabbit hole is very deep. The foundational premises of D&D can easily be labelled toxic. Where is the line between race and monster? Why can you home invade, kill and steal consequence-free from monsters for personal gain but not races? Can we steal from races too if we, the conquering...
I'm of mixed feelings about this but I thought the press release was exceptionally well put together. There was nothing offensive about their intent or actions to me personally. I just worry about where this train could bring us because if we're honest there are a lot of 'problematic' elements...
Thank you Egg! On a very loosely related to the subject of Teacher-Gaming note, my son who is currently in Grade 3 had a virtual class today. The teacher asked what everyone had been doing at home and out of ten students two unrelated girls each said they had been playing D&D with their dads.
I'd be interested to see a deeper analysis of 3.5e vs 5e. Many third-party companies sprang up and thrived in the early 2000s during 3E and later 3.5E. A bunch of those companies are still here and in many cases are making 5e content - but it doesn't seem to be at the same level of output...
Yes, I think you're right. What irritates me is why are they waiting until after the print book has been released to release the official errata. And my guess there would be they decided to hold off the release until they had some certain amount of changes. I think it is poor optics having a...
And you even celebrate and publicly declare your underperformance. The book wasn't finished yesterday the errata has been in place for months at this point. Please continue agitating for under-delivery its quite amusing.