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I'm not. There is even literary precedence. Edgar Rice Burroughs in the Barsoom series wants to have a race that is obviously evil...

Yes. In my game for example, elves are "usually" chaotic good. This doesn't mean that all elves are chaotic good only that they are by...

I dont grasp how “be senstive to the way racist ideologies have portrayed outgroup humans as sub-human” means that halflings...

I tend to approach species description as descriptive, rather than prescriptive. The typical wood elf might love forests, but there's...

This example doesn't work for me; isn't the point of Frodo taking the ring require that he his less fit for adventuring and ruling than...

"Oooh...a Snuffleufagus! That's worth 1,500 XP, and drops good treasure. Let's kill it!"

It's a theory. I don't think the theory holds up though, because my experience talking with 5e players is the lack of mechanical crunch...

Bioessentialism isn't wrong where it isn't false to facts. Indeed, where it is true to facts it inherently important. It's a taboo...

I assure you that my back and knees explain that to me on a regular basis! I have the first edition CoC, the display has a thinner box...

I have really become interested in Pathfinder 1e lately. I started with 5e, and I like a lot about it. But there are some key things...

I love D&D 3.0e and I will never be done with it. 5e felt shallow by comparison and while I respected a lot of its design chops, I felt...

Reasonable, but the alternative that I would accept is what you describe - a GM using "kid gloves" to minimize the number of deaths by...

The good news is that if you did, you'd be in good company, in that it never bothered the official writers of the setting to introduce...

Celebrim, thank you for your response! I absolutely agree that there is no existing common metaphysics to D&D/Planescape. It's a work by...

Potions and scrolls and other temporary items were in 1e AD&D much easier to make and much more accessible than persistent magical...