Tony Vargas
Legend
Think about historic figures, and ponder which ones come closest to the 'adventurer' job description.
There's a reason "murderhobo" gets thrown around as much as it does.Think about historic figures, and ponder which ones come closest to the 'adventurer' job description.
The term druid is not being removed. This was a clickbait article misrepresenting a quotation.
It's the fault of those darn druids casting Plant Growth!I feel this is somehow lost in the weeds, yet here we are, 16 pages deep.
I think even the weeds got left behind at least 10 pages ago.I feel this is somehow lost in the weeds, yet here we are, 16 pages deep.
Apropos of nothing, "Onate's Foot" was one of the first episodes of "99% Invisible" I listened to.Yep. Where I live we cut feet off statues of conquistadors. (Really.)
I have; and while I myself don't care much, there's certainly those as do.I have never met a neo-pagan who was offended by D&D ‘s paganism. We don’t care.
Though it would have the same tied-to-one-culture problem as does Druid, one could use the name Skald for the Bard class. Bard, though, is certainly more generic, and thus probably better even if blander.That’s why I’m one of few people who care that the Bard is divorced from its origins, and no one else cares. It’s not from a surviving culture, it’s from a past that we have vanishingly little connection to in the modern day, and it was generecised by the descendants of that culture. I hate it because I find the 5e Bard thematically bland as cardboard, basically just a less interesting rogue with spells, and the folkloric Bard is actually interesting and could do things other classes don’t do.
Apropos of nothing else, "Villains in the Past" might be one of the better band names I've heard in a while......villains in the past...
It's never going to be coherent because each culture comes with its own particular baggage. What might be acceptable in Spain may not be acceptable in the United States or Norway. Even among people who share a common language, Americans and our fine cousins in Great Britain, there is not a concensus over the acceptability of certain words. I have heard Australians and British people use a certain word that I was brought up never, ever to call someone, but to them its no big deal. If I go to great Britain and I hear people use that word, I'm just going to shrug my shoulders and get on with my life. If a British person is here, they should refrain from using it. When in Rome, right?Most likely is druid not being removed. But we are talking about what are the criteria for the limis when we try to avoid offending sensibilities by other groups. My opinion is the criteria is not being really coherent, because some things could be "cancelled" but other are allowed.