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[ezo]

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Have you not also seen 1000s of pictures of old dudes with long white beards, blue robes, and pointy hats?

 

[Charlaquin]

Cool. And I'm fine if other people like it for whatever reasons. For the reasons I've agreed with others, and stated for myself, I don't. But people seem to take offense to my disliking it for those reasons, so apparently aren't fine with it.

People (including myself) share their reasons with others often because otherwise other people might question why we don't like it. People project issues they have with others on others still.

The thing is, the reasons you give for disliking it don’t really hold up. There’s a double-standard involved where magic has to be both flexible and rigid in order for these stated reasons to follow logically. That’s what people are disagreeing with you about, not the simple fact that you don’t like it. Had you merely said “It’s not to my taste,” or “I don’t like it for some reason” or something like that, I think you’d be getting less pushback than you are now. Which is why I described the tendency to want to rationalize our likes and dislikes as “unhelpful.”

 

[Reynard]

Also, can't we have anything nice without people nit-picking it to death?

It's "nitpicking."

 

[Scribe]

Also, can't we have anything nice without people nit-picking it to death?

Welcome.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

"Those people"? Who are "those people"? Please stop trying to pigeon-hole me in a group I don't belong to.

The people that commonly complain about people with disabilities being present in fantasy worlds. If you’re not one of them, fine, your arguments are just pretty similar.

Your choice as far as the spell goes. The ability to cure blindless and restore vision is very much a magical thing to me. Helping someone with a vision impairment would be even easier as they can already see to some extent. Since the spell removes the blinded condition, it implies it very much IMO. You don't want to allow it to help people in your games? Your choice.

I allow the spell to help people, but lesser restoration is clearly intended to remedy more minor, temporary effects, like a Blindness/Deafness spell, Hold Person, or poison. Restoring permanent disabilities is more of a Regeneration/powerful resurrection ability. Plus, Wizards can’t cast Lesser Restoration, so even if she could be cured by that spell, who’s to say that her “party” (if she has one) has a member that can cast the spell?

Glasses are just a really, really weird thing to criticize.

 

[Oofta]

Except that isn't what I said, so please stop insinuating that it was. Thank you.

You said they were similar enough that a spell that cures blindness would also give people improved vision. I'm not insinuating anything, just restating it and letting you know what people will interpret it as. Whether or not it should work, people in fantasy settings wearing glasses is quite common in imagery. Wearing glasses that allow you to see better isn't something the really needs to be fixed. Unless of course, you need a new prescription.

 

[Charlaquin]

When one gives a logical reason for one’s like or dislike of something, one gives other people something to refute. “Aha!” they can say, “your opinion is invalid, because it’s based on a flawed premise, as I will now demonstrate.” Whereas if one had simply said they liked it or disliked it, without trying to justify that preference, there would have been nothing to argue about. We like what we like, mostly because of emotional reactions that have no real basis in logical reasoning.

 

[Demetrios1453]

It's "nitpicking."

Lol. Ok, you got a good chuckle from me for that. Well played.

 

[Zehnseiter]

No pointy hat, not a wizard. I don't make the rules.

There are some pointy shoulder pats instead.....

They kind of look ridiculous. Given that is a picture of a 5E wizard they actually should be somewhat more conservative with the magical stuff. Thanks to Concentration they can't have too much magical stuff at the same time going. Imho the picture feels bland. Not bad but also nothing special about it.