D&D 5E Mearls' "Firing" tweet

Werebat · Feb 2, 2018

My wife is a doctor. When a new female doctor is hired, or even appointed to a position of authority in the hospital, it's no big news. It happens ALL THE TIME.

Note that this was not always the case. For a long time, women were not allowed to be doctors, and then for a long time there was a lot of hullabaloo and angst about nonsense like "should I trust the competence of a woman surgeon?", "but what about her CHILDREN?", etc. Stupid crap. You rarely hear any of it now.

It does say something about the gaming industry that this new hire is even news, let along causing a stir.

Jester David · Feb 2, 2018

While we're taking about getting rid of people in the hobby, could we also fire the people who attend a convention but refuse to bathe?
I think we can really do without the stereotype that is “gamerfunk”

Riley37 · Jun 27, 2019

Dannyalcatraz said:
Perhaps we can discuss creating a new subclass of arcane pact in which the patron gives his thrall control over textiles.

Yes...the Threadlock.

Collective patron: the Greek Moirai, AKA the Fates, Clotho (the "spinner"), Lachesis and Atropos.

Dannyalcatraz · Jun 27, 2019

Riley37 said:
Collective patron: the Greek Moirai, AKA the Fates, Clotho (the "spinner"), Lachesis and Atropos.

You just couldn’t weave my pun alone...

gyor · Jun 27, 2019

Forgive and forget, it's time to move on.

M.L. Martin · Jun 27, 2019

In the irony department, this thread gets resurrected just as there are cries for Mearls' firing resounding across Twitter.

jayoungr · Jun 27, 2019

I don't follow Twitter. What did he do (if you can describe it in a way that won't incur a reprimand)?

M.L. Martin · Jun 27, 2019

jayoungr said:
I don't follow Twitter. What did he do (if you can describe it in a way that won't incur a reprimand)?

People are still upset about his handling of the Zak S situation, and the official WotC account doing a Pride-related promo set off the new wave.

billd91 · Jun 27, 2019

M.L. Martin said:
People are still upset about his handling of the Zak S situation, and the official WotC account doing a Pride-related promo set off the new wave.

Twitter is such a

-hole.

Dausuul · Jun 27, 2019

billd91 said:
Twitter is such a -hole.

Who would have thought that a system specifically designed to encourage people to speak without thinking, that blocks you from expressing anything complex or nuanced enough to require more than 280 characters, and that gets essentially zero moderation would turn out badly?