Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
White Dwarf Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Nest
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
EN Publishing
Twitter
BlueSky
Facebook
Instagram
EN World
BlueSky
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Twitch
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
What's New?
Latest activity
Register
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Crimson Longinus's latest activity
Crimson Longinus
reacted to
clearstream's post
in the thread
D&D General
[rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.
with
Like
.
There are too many problematic implications around what may properly count as a rule or a game, for me to engage with the "by its very...
Aug 8, 2025
Crimson Longinus
reacted to
Maxperson's post
in the thread
D&D General
[rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.
with
Like
.
Yes, in fact if the books declare you can do it, it does mean that it isn't cheating. The players have access to the books. They have...
Aug 8, 2025
Crimson Longinus
reacted to
clearstream's post
in the thread
D&D General
[rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.
with
Like
.
This example does not match what I described. If a poker tournament's rules expressly state that telepathy is allowed, it can hardly be...
Aug 8, 2025
Crimson Longinus
reacted to
Thomas Shey's post
in the thread
D&D General
[rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.
with
Like
.
I do have to point out you can think its ethically OK but think there's a loss of something in the illusion of the game if its visible...
Aug 8, 2025
Crimson Longinus
reacted to
I'm A Banana's post
in the thread
Purple Dragon Knight Retooled as Banneret in D&D's Heroes of Faerun Book
with
Like
.
Yeah, in the same way as if I have a +1 weapon, I'm more powerful than the rest of my party if the rest of my party doesn't have it. Of...
Aug 8, 2025
Crimson Longinus
reacted to
Micah Sweet's post
in the thread
I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism
with
Like
.
A PC dwarf is not treated as a different order of being as a dwarf NPC in setting, so neither should IMO have capabilities the other...
Aug 8, 2025
Crimson Longinus
reacted to
UngainlyTitan's post
in the thread
I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism
with
Like
.
I often think that the reason that all those elven kingdoms are in the distant past was because elven societies tend to ossify in ways...
Aug 8, 2025
Crimson Longinus
reacted to
Staffan's post
in the thread
I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism
with
Like
.
I remember making a character in a shortlived Eon campaign who was certain that humans' relative shortlivedness was a gift, not a curse...
Aug 8, 2025
Crimson Longinus
reacted to
BrokenTwin's post
in the thread
I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism
with
Like
.
Straight damage per hit isn't the only metric I'm measuring by. The tradeoffs could be the halfling being harder to hit, more mobile, or...
Aug 8, 2025
Crimson Longinus
reacted to
BrokenTwin's post
in the thread
I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism
with
Like
.
It's because that's not playing against the system. The personal challenge isn't "can I play a suboptimal halfling barbarian", but "how...
Aug 8, 2025
Crimson Longinus
reacted to
The Firebird's post
in the thread
I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism
with
Like
.
The fact that some differences exist does not imply adding more differences is not an issue.
Aug 8, 2025
Crimson Longinus
reacted to
Micah Sweet's post
in the thread
I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism
with
Like
.
That implies that PCs are special and should be treated differently in the rules from other members of their species; in effect,it is a...
Aug 8, 2025
Crimson Longinus
reacted to
Fanaelialae's post
in the thread
I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism
with
Like
.
To the best of my knowledge, Tolkien never actually wrote Brandobras' story. It's simply a myth that is briefly mentioned in LotR. We...
Aug 8, 2025
Crimson Longinus
reacted to
billd91's post
in the thread
I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism
with
Like
.
Except for the part that a lot of game design choices are all about the aesthetics of those choices. Game design isn't science or math -...
Aug 8, 2025
Crimson Longinus
reacted to
Fanaelialae's post
in the thread
I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism
with
Like
.
I think some of this comes down to RPGs doing a lot of abstraction for ease of play. Some people interpret those abstractions as...
Aug 8, 2025
Top