The Knights of Solamnia in Dragonlance canonically have mustaches. All of them. According to Weis and Hickman. WotC changed that in the 5E version of the setting. Some fans were really upset by that.
Yeah what do they know about TTRPGs anyway? Mercer in particular - what has he done, created and led by far the most popular actual play show on D&D for a decade? Written and published multiple source books and adventures both with and without Wizards of the Coast? Created his own TTRPGs? Co-created an animated D&D show with (checks) 100% RT rating over its first two seasons?Well, I don't want to diminish Mercer and Woll, but being better than those two is a low bar to clear...
It's obviously WotC trying to cash in on someone else's streaming popularity while nefariously attacking Daggerheart.
by ignoring half of what he wrote…
That's an assertion without evidence and certainly not universal.
You might want to read the post that you quoted, because it doesn't seem that you understood it at all.
AD&D 1e is an oral tradition.
It's just a really weird minor thing to change. Like someone sat down and thought "I really need to get rid of the canonical moustaches on this group of classic uptight knights."
Oh, at least. If you've read his stuff, you know how incomprehensible most of it is. We took what worked and dropped the rest. So did everyone else playing in the 80s. A few people online try to claim they ran the game RAW but I've never met a person in meat-space who claimed that. I think it's an internet meme at this point. As mentioned, it was an oral tradition more than a "read the books and learn how to play" tradition.
