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[Faolyn]

How can you tell the difference?

I don't need to tell the difference, and I don't assume that anytime a man holds a door for me that they're doing it for sexist reasons. The difference is in what type of person you (generic you) are in general, and little beliefs like that tend to just be one example of your greater personality.

 

[Micah Sweet]

For me, I'll usually have a vague idea of what I want to play but if the dice don't co-operate then so be it; that idea gets shelved for later and I come up with something based on what I rolled.

That works too.

 

[overgeeked]

For me, I'll usually have a vague idea of what I want to play but if the dice don't co-operate then so be it; that idea gets shelved for later and I come up with something based on what I rolled.

Exactly. Or, unless you're incredibly unlucky, you can make the stats work for the character you want. If you get a 15 instead of an 18 your character concept can still work...unless you're trying for an AD&D paladin. In modern D&D, where they've removed all class restriction, this shouldn't be a problem.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Exactly. Or, unless you're incredibly unlucky, you can make the stats work for the character you want. If you get a 15 instead of an 18 your character concept can still work...unless you're trying for an AD&D paladin. In modern D&D, where they've removed all class restriction, this shouldn't be a problem.

And yet somehow it still is...

 

[Velderan]

Exactly. Or, unless you're incredibly unlucky, you can make the stats work for the character you want. If you get a 15 instead of an 18 your character concept can still work...unless you're trying for an AD&D paladin. In modern D&D, where they've removed all class restriction, this shouldn't be a problem.

For me usually the concept I had in AD&D 2e wasn't so specific it absolutely had to be a certain class. I had a thief that originally I wanted to be a bard but I only had 2 stats 12+, so I just took proficiency in a musical instrument and put his two highest stats in DEX and CHA. His low stats were 8 STR and 9 CON because he was lazy and got by charming his way out of tough spots whenever possible. He lived to reach level 4 before the campaign fizzled out, but he was still as fun to play as if he was a bard and as a bonus Snarf wasn't out to kill him.

 

[Maxperson]

Because there is no time or need for an actual conversation and social expectations.

I also return my cart, address police as sir, and hold the door for women.

These are basics.

No. "Hi, it's been a while!" or "Hi, long time no see!" are just as acceptable and don't involve asking a personal question that you don't want to know about. I don't ask someone how they are doing unless I want to know and I expect others do the same.

Or let me put it this way, if they really don't want to know, then after I honestly answer the question in a way that they don't like, they'll know better and won't ask next time.

 

[Maxperson]

Central California.

Los Angeles here.

 

[Scribe]

Or let me put it this way, if they really don't want to know, then after I honestly answer the question in a way that they don't like, they'll know better and won't ask next time.

This actually is an underlying point, but considering we cant even hold doors without controversy, I'm not sure this thread is ready for it.

 

[Gradine]

Is he good? Is he bad? Is he neither? Yes, yes he is.

Is he also, for some inexplicable reason, The Beast from Beauty and the Beast? Is his father Peter Pan? Also yes, for reasons!

I do have to add that Rumpelstiltskin's actor, perhaps more than anyone else on the show, Understood The Assignment.

 

[Aldarc]

It's also a critique of their literary style.

Most definitely.

I'm a great admirer of JRRT, but what Moorcock is getting is, in my view, unarguably a feature of the work. I think a similar sort of criticism could be applied to Star Wars.

I love Star Wars, but yeah I also think that Star Wars is (often but not always) at its best when it leans into its original inspirational material, namely Westerns and sci-fi pulp serials (e.g., Flash Gordon), etc. But a lot of that is again admittedly rooted in the conservative, the idyll, the colonialist, and the folkloric.