D&D 5E Why FR Is "Hated"

[Caliban]

I've found that just paying attention to what people say in their posts works.

Well that comment was certainly helpful.

How often do people refer to their own gender in a post? I certainly don't make a habit of it.

On an anonymous internet forum, I do my best to assume people have no gender until they tell me otherwise. However, when I went through school and learned how to write, I was taught to use the male pronoun as the default in almost all cases (with certain exceptions because "English").

Obviously that is no longer the norm, which is why I try not to do it. But old habits can creep up on you if you aren't paying attention. It's just something that happens from time to time, there is no nefarious agenda behind it.

 

[MoonSong]

Well that comment was certainly helpful.

How often do people refer to their own gender in a post? I certainly don't make a habit of it.

On an anonymous internet forum, I do my best to assume people have no gender until they tell me otherwise. However, when I went through school and learned how to write, I was taught to use the male pronoun as the default in almost all cases (with certain exceptions because "English").

Obviously that is no longer the norm, which is why I try not to do it. But old habits can creep up on you if you aren't paying attention. It's just something that happens from time to time, there is no nefarious agenda behind it.

My mother tongue is quite binary, there are no "genderless" things to speak of -and the very idea of "genderless-ness?" is kinda foreign to me-, so I guess I keep assuming one or the other out of habit. Somehow the way people write gives them away, and I check profiles when in doubt. It is also because I try to keep tracks of individual posters to avoid scary posters or people who have upset me in the past.
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Back into topic, I think that the reason godly NPCs bother me -and maybe others- is because well, maybe your character gets to save the world once or twice, but change tables/campaigns and all of that goes away, while the Elminsters and Drizzits of the world keep having adventures with the gods that are remembered by all.

 

[Caliban]

Back into topic, I think that the reason godly NPCs bother me -and maybe others- is because well, maybe your character gets to save the world once or twice, but change tables/campaigns and all of that goes away, while the Elminsters and Drizzits of the world keep having adventures with the gods that are remembered by all. [/B]

I agree, it's one of the reasons I eventually stopped using the FR setting for my campaigns, or radically change them when I do use them.

But...there are people who like exactly that. They love hearing about the adventures of prominent people (and the more epic the better) and then trying to play in their world. It's the same desire that leads people to write fanfiction, just expressed in gamer terms.

It's why so many players have made "Drizz't" copies over the years - which is something else that contributed to Drizz't being so reviled by people who weren't particularly bothered by him at first.

But real secret is...the fanboys will keep spending money on the books, games, and supplements that mention their favorite NPC's, while the people who are tired of them will not. And for the time being, the people willing to keep spending money on the Realms makes a more significant impact than those who are tired of them. I used to be one of them, but I've moved on.

 

[hawkeyefan]

Has Drizzt really done anything that crazy in his books? I'm familiar with the earlier ones, and a little bit of some of the later ones in a general sense....I never took his deeds to be all that insane. Pretty much on par with what I would expect a long term PC to have under his belt.

Did things really go crazy in the later books? Or is this more that people assume his real world fame correlates to the in-world fame? I don't even know if he's as well known in Faerun as many here seem to think....sure, in the North, and along the Sword Coast he has a rep....but nothing like Elminster.

Just curious.

 

[Caliban]

Has Drizzt really done anything that crazy in his books? I'm familiar with the earlier ones, and a little bit of some of the later ones in a general sense....I never took his deeds to be all that insane. Pretty much on par with what I would expect a long term PC to have under his belt.

Did things really go crazy in the later books? Or is this more that people assume his real world fame correlates to the in-world fame? I don't even know if he's as well known in Faerun as many here seem to think....sure, in the North, and along the Sword Coast he has a rep....but nothing like Elminster.

Just curious.

Based on absolutely no actual research on my part, I'd assume it's the later - people just being annoyed by Drizz't showing up in various games, and by players creating Drizz't knockoffs. I've seen Drizz't clones show up in super hero games (specifically City of Heroes - this was player made character).

As much as some of the fans love him, some people really don't like Drizz't for some reason. And that taints the entire FR setting for them. Probably not as much as it used to, but it definitely was a thing for awhile there.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Bastet?

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Well Sharess, the name she's better known as outside of Mulhorand.

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[Caliban]

Well Sharess, the name she's better known as outside of Mulhorand.

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/hipster "I worshipped her before it was cool. You wouldn't have known her back then."

 

[ccs]

Well that comment was certainly helpful.

How often do people refer to their own gender in a post? I certainly don't make a habit of it.

On an anonymous internet forum, I do my best to assume people have no gender until they tell me otherwise. However, when I went through school and learned how to write, I was taught to use the male pronoun as the default in almost all cases (with certain exceptions because "English").

Obviously that is no longer the norm, which is why I try not to do it. But old habits can creep up on you if you aren't paying attention. It's just something that happens from time to time, there is no nefarious agenda behind it.

(Shrugs) If you pay attention you can learn a great deal about people by how/what they write.
In Mechas' case it's easy. She's talked about herself over the years.

 

[Caliban]

(Shrugs) If you pay attention you can learn a great deal about people by how/what they write.
In Mechas' case it's easy. She's talked about herself over the years.

Well good for you.

I, on the other hand, don't cyberstalk people on forums. It's kinda creepy.

 

[Zardnaar]

Well good for you.

I, on the other hand, don't cyberstalk people on forums. It's kinda creepy.

A few of us are from the WoTC boards and have "known" each other for years. Mirtek for example was 2003 or 2001 on the WotC forums and he is from Germany.