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[FrogReaver]

It's more like the Babe Ruth of RPGs.

Babe Ruth was fat.

 

[CleverNickName]

Babe Ruth was fat.

(looks at my D&D bookshelf, groaning under the weight of countless books)
Yes, and?

 

[FrogReaver]

(looks at my D&D bookshelf, groaning under the weight of countless books)
Yes, and?

That just means your bookshelf is gnome sized.

 

[Lanefan]

If that's the case, maybe they should consider giving the Paladin some Warlord-like abilities.

Flat no to any sort of ranged healing. I could see giving them some traffic-direction and minor buffing abilities e.g. a built-in Bless to allies within 10 feet.

 

[Lanefan]

There's nothing wrong with the answer being on your character sheet.

So all I need to do is write the word "Yes" on there and I'm good to go.

 

[Lanefan]

This feels more like post-hoc reasoning that mostly exists to maintain and rationalize the existing traditions of the status quo rather than question whether they are accurate reflections of the source material or whether we would be better served by modeling these things differently in the mechanics.

The source material in this case is my imagination of the characters, reflected in roleplay. Game mechanics are only there to help reflect those bits I can't roleplay because they have to be abstracted, e.g. combat and most other physical activities we can't live-play at the table.

 

[MGibster]

In America, the consumption of sushi is often looked down upon because we've been taught that "raw fish" is unhealthy and dangerous. The risks of eating sushi are greatly overstated because...well, let's just say that sushi has a lot of things in common with Monosodium Glutamate in our culture.

We have a cultural aversion to raw animal flesh and there are plenty of people who won't touch raw oysters with a ten foot pole while others consider it a delicacy. There are a lot of older Americans especially who overcook the hell out of their meat because they were inculcated with a fear of undercooked flesh, trichinosis in pork for example, causing sickness. I thought I hated porkchops until I got married and realized my mother had been overcooking them all my life. A few years ago I went out to dinner at a fancy Mexican restaurant that served ceviche as an appetizer and I had it all to myself because nobody else at the table would touch "raw" shrimp.

I don't get why so many people are down on MSG. I used to think it was some weird chemical and was surprised to find out it was just a naturally occurring salt. Turns out the complaints about it causing headaches and other ailments are mostly nonsense.

 

[MGibster]

The source material in this case is my imagination of the characters, reflected in roleplay. Game mechanics are only there to help reflect those bits I can't roleplay because they have to be abstracted, e.g. combat and most other physical activities we can't live-play at the table.

Not with that attitude!

 

[haakon1]

I bet most or all of these have been said, but, imho:

• High level D&D is boring
• AD&D (1e to the heathens) is the platonic form of D&D. Everything else is trying to be “cleaned up”, “simplified & easier to learn”, “more choices”, or “video game ready” variants on the ideal.
• AD&D (the real one, 1e) was better if you ignored a lot of rules that “everyone“ ignored, like Weapon Speed Factor and weapon versus specific armor) and of course added Critical Hits
• There have been way too many editions. Make it stop.
• Pathfinder, various versions of OSR, and “rule sets beyond number” are all D&D
• D&D is odd. That’s why odd numbered editions are good, and even numbered editions are bad. For these purposes, “Original“ and “Basic” would appear to be odd.
• Every edition has good points and many bad points. Newer isn’t better, but doesn’t always mean worse either.
• Core Rules only is the best approach to every edition. Every edition of D&D has way too many supplements. Splatbooks detract more than they add. The main reason for splatbook proliferation is to make an edition so bloated there’s an excuse for a new one.
• 2024 will be best if it’s just a cleanup of 5e. 5.5e, not 6e. 5e forever would be great.
• 5e is meh. But it could be a lot worse!
• Though I say AD&D (the real thing) is platonic ideal, and I want 5e forever, I actually enjoy running and playing 3.5e the best. It’s the last, best version of the Real Thing.
• Forgotten Realms is, not sure if this official or not, the One True Current D&D setting.
• I much prefer Greyhawk because there’s so much less of it (less is more room to be the DM). But I am wrong because, as Stephen Colbert says “the market has spoken”. Or at least WotC has, even if they haven’t said it out loud.
• FR is kinda meh and doesn’t make a lot of sense (what’s with megacities in howling wilderness in the only place that matters, which we all know is the BAMA called the Sword Coast),
• WotC isn’t evil. But they are often annoying. It’s not the same thing. They don’t have Pinkertons and what they screw up isn’t done on purpose.
• Long posts are too long. This post is too long and it self contradictions aren’t amusing. There are too many posts. TL,DR.
• This had to be said again from days of yore: Lemon Curry?

 

[Emberashh]

We have a cultural aversion to raw animal flesh and there are plenty of people who won't touch raw oysters with a ten foot pole while others consider it a delicacy. There are a lot of older Americans especially who overcook the hell out of their meat because they were inculcated with a fear of undercooked flesh, trichinosis in pork for example, causing sickness. I thought I hated porkchops until I got married and realized my mother had been overcooking them all my life. A few years ago I went out to dinner at a fancy Mexican restaurant that served ceviche as an appetizer and I had it all to myself because nobody else at the table would touch "raw" shrimp.

I don't get why so many people are down on MSG. I used to think it was some weird chemical and was surprised to find out it was just a naturally occurring salt. Turns out the complaints about it causing headaches and other ailments are mostly nonsense.

A lot of things we think we don't like often come down to them being prepared poorly.

And people are still hung up about MSG due to some racist fearmongering from the 70s. Its just a lot of bad info thats still got its pincers in the zeitgeist.