Keefe the Thief
Adventurer
Seriously, do you remember the Dryad debacle? A good-looking woman able to wear boots, redesigned into a four-legged tree...thing without feet? Do you remember when gnomes suddenly had to wear robes, hiding their 14-holer badger-stompers (TM)? When belts suddenly became trousers or skirts, making footwear obsolete?
When saint Gygax was still at the helm, beard firmly wrapped around the steering wheel, a boot was still a boot. They were expensive, weighed a ton and needed a specialised boot sage to be repaired (1d4 200 gp gems or the same amount in spell scrolls). Giants had boots you could use as ferry boats, gnome housing or siege machinery (wheels not included). When you say "Ren 'o the Blade" or "Grey Mouser", doesn't that invoke a picture of hairy man-legs enclosed in well-oiled sharkskin leather?
The Equal Boots Movment stole this ancient tradition away from D&D, and if Wotc doesn't correct that mistake, they'll be dead to me. Nobody ever reached a new horizon without a pair of proper boots.
When saint Gygax was still at the helm, beard firmly wrapped around the steering wheel, a boot was still a boot. They were expensive, weighed a ton and needed a specialised boot sage to be repaired (1d4 200 gp gems or the same amount in spell scrolls). Giants had boots you could use as ferry boats, gnome housing or siege machinery (wheels not included). When you say "Ren 'o the Blade" or "Grey Mouser", doesn't that invoke a picture of hairy man-legs enclosed in well-oiled sharkskin leather?
The Equal Boots Movment stole this ancient tradition away from D&D, and if Wotc doesn't correct that mistake, they'll be dead to me. Nobody ever reached a new horizon without a pair of proper boots.
