Recent content by Umbran

Ugh. Thank you for watching that so we don't have to.

Most companies have more ideas for work than they can ever execute on, so, things that aren't prioritized will generally not get done.

I don't think WotC is concerned with providing better support for third party publishers on the legacy editions.

I wasn't setting a line in the sand. I was making an observation supporting how we all come to have our own lines in the sand, and that's okay.

Historically, I'm a forever GM. So, in the decade prior to the 2020 covid pandemic, I think I had been a player in one TTRPG campaign, and that one completed. With the pandemic came a dramatic rise in online play, and I joined several games. Three of them fizzled within short times (but two...

Well, that makes sense, because it is the RP portion that differentiates RPGs from other Gs. If youaren't going to put emphasis on the RP, you might as well play some other G with less overhead. So, there is a point where the G takes up so much of the cognitive effort of play that the players...

Unfortunately, all the things you wish you could remove forever are a direct result of the stuff you want. If you give people a core ruleset with bits they can manipulate (stats and points) and rewards (XP), they will manipulate those bits (optimizing, building, and "decision by committee"...

It is always easy to do the predictable and uncontroversial. Making exactly what we would have expected may take technical skill, but takes no inspiration. Yet another staid, traditional retread of the same content. Yippee. This? The way it takes up brainspace? That's art, performing its...

Conception that "this body type means male, that means female" is exactly stereotyping. That we all did it merely means we share the stereotype, not that it didn't exist.

Mod note: In a thread in which so many of your peers are mad at WizKids for not asking the artist, this really isn't cool. If WizKids can't read his mind, neither can we. We would thank everyone to please not speak for what is in the mind of the artist. If Elmore wants to expound on his...

With respect - it was always taken to be a man, because we (including the artist) had stereotypes we applied to interpreting what we were looking at. The fact that the mini can depict a woman from the vantage of the original piece, but a woman from the other side, suggest that it is actually...

It is still/again not clear to me what you want out of this interaction. I get that you disagree with me on the point. I don't feel a need to get your agreement, or to defend my point against you. If you've said what you wanted to say, I think we are done.

Right. But she's pretty clearly a character visually designed for the male gaze. Sexualized. As are most of the other iconic female art pieces from yesteryear. One thing you can say about the mini they produced is that she means business.

Folks, I recommend you all stop pushing your luck in this thread. If you are not going to be kind, take a hike.

Mod note: I asked folks to keep the rhetoric down. You have abjectly failed to do so. That will not go well for you. Please keep to threads in which you can hold back from fanning flames.