D&D (2024) (+) New Edition Changes for Inclusivity (discuss possibilities)

[Thirteenspades]

Dear, Thor! Do I really have to post the same picture on the same page?

Since 1974. No Good and Evil here:

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Oops. Quadrigot.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Bigot! Zombies were people too, you know!!!!!!!!!!

Zombie Lives Mattered

Did I say zombies were evil? (Also the last part of your post could be seen as offensive.)

A necromancer who creates undead just to destroy settlements is evil, even without a marker saying they are.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Yes it was:

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Men & Magic, page 9.

I mostly meant alignment in its current capacity. That page doesn't mention good or evil, only law and chaos.

 

[FrogReaver]

Did I say zombies were evil? (Also the last part of your post could be seen as offensive.)

A necromancer who creates undead just to destroy settlements is evil, even without a marker saying they are.

depends on the settlements in question IMO.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

And when D&D was first made, rules were theoretical. Alignment and all. Both clearly defined and abstract.

All rules are theoretical. I don't see how that argument does anything to disprove mine.

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

Did I say zombies were evil? (Also the last part of your post could be seen as offensive.)

A necromancer who creates undead just to destroy settlements is evil, even without a marker saying they are.

Humor -> window -> defenestration.

 

[Maxperson]

That actually has been disproven, with the discovery of fossils in IIRC 2017 of horses from much later than that, as well as sightings of Natives with horse in the Carolinas in numbers before horses could possibly have gotten to there from escaped or lost Spanish horses, which would have had required the horses to escape or be lost, travel from what is now Mexico City, and repopulate, in 2 years or less.

In other words, the entire narrative that Europeans reintroduced natives to horses has always been bunk “science” based on Western biases.

Edit: a quick google helped me find a good article with links to sources. I’ll do the work for you this time, because I enjoy reading about it anyway.

Yes world, there were horses in Native culture before the settlers came

Yvette Running Horse Collin’s recent dissertation may have rewritten every natural history book on the shelf. A Lakota/Nakota/Cheyenne scholar, Collin worked

indiancountrytoday.com

Thanks for that. It was a very interesting read and filled a gap in my knowledge.

 

[Thirteenspades]

2) D&D religion is pagan polytheism to avoid offending Christians.

And also because it pulls more from western fantasy than Christianity.

 

[TheSword]

Why don’t we forget all the angst and concentrate on real world harm and how we can avoid encouraging it or making people relive it in their published games?

 

[Thirteenspades]

All rules are theoretical. I don't see how that argument does anything to disprove mine.

A lot of stuff, TSR expected that the DM assumed. That's why it was so rules-light.