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These are good points for campaigns that wish to explore how people saw the world historically.

Then why the game has so many mechanical widgets for avoiding consequences?

D&D still doesn't have green orcs. AD&D orcs were super porcine - like, literal pig-folk. I think it was Warhammer that basically gave...

I guess we have to. I believe that you believe that there is a difference, but I do not see such actually being articulated in you...

One more thing I want to (again) say regarding fantasy religions is that a lot of people these days want to make fantasy gods so...

And I was talking about entanglements, where there specifically is such limited list to be randomised fro, But even in case of...

Gods that are just basically very powerful people, are not interesting to me. They seem metaphysically needless, and have the same...

The entanglements are pre-defined troubles and by the rules come as they are. Which is actually something that has bugged me from time...

If my character is observant enough to notice the bolded (otherwise why are you narrating it) shouldn't I get a chance for my character...

No, I'm sorry, this is a post hoc rationalisation. We follow this rigid mechanical structure as that's the rules, it prompts us to roll...

In D&D we need to understand what the fictional situation is before we can decide whether a skill roll is even needed, what skill to...

This is true for basically every RPG. Of course you choose what your character does first. It is just that in many other games it is...

past tense presumably used for when choosing to be a half elf actually mattered mechanically in the game.

There was a definite chunk of players of mixed heritage that identified with half-elves, and wanted to play them for that specific reason.

You may consider “feels like an outsider” to be contrived, but it is the primary appeal of half-elves. Specifically, that they are...