Recent content by doctorhook

I hear what you’re saying, and yes there are some gems over on Reddit. But without good, stable moderation over the long term, it’s all transient. Nothing good over there lasts, because once people discover how good it is, it starts to erode. Here at ENWorld we’ve got solid moderation keeping...

Counterpoint: A lot of people use ENWorld for free and assume that it’s sufficiently supported by ad revenue, which may not always be true. Beyond ENWorld, most people don’t pay for most of their news—small wonder that journalism is disappearing! A few months ago I was reflecting on how much I...

What you’re describing sounds a lot like a bond.

Yeah that’s wild. Might be different if was explicitly some kind of co-operative. Good luck to them I guess. I thought you were joking about the bricks until I read it, lol

I was thinking of Métis too! Obviously it can be problematic to compare a real-world culture to a fictional one, but there’s at least a structural basis of comparison between Métis and Khoravar. For those who don’t know this term, in Canada “Métis” is a recognized ethno-cultural group whose...

This is technically correct in the biological sense, that’s true. But it still feels kind weird to talk about any kind of person as a biological “hybrid”—that’s language we normally reserve for animals, and sorta implies that it’s not a “legitimate” category of being.

LOL well alright then, that’ll do it

I didn’t phrase myself well, my bad. I know Eberron always called them “Khoravar” (well, specifically that was the particular main culture of half-elves). For some reason I had thought that 5E Eberron had dropped the term “half-elf” for Khoravar… turns out they just dropped half-elves.

I’m not up on 5E 2024’s half-elf stats though, how different is the Khoravar?

Not sure when Khoravar (the name for the race, not the concept of Khorvaire’s HEs) was introduced to 5E but it works pretty well. No objections… except that now people will be trying to be Khoravar in Faerûn and Ravenloft, etc. lol

Strong bet that Jd_Smith1 has blocked you for some reason, because my experience is identical to yours: JLowder is conversing with someone invisible to me who’s posting prolifically, and if I view the thread while signed out I can see that it’s Jd_Smith1. There’s no one on my ignore list...

I find it entirely cowardly to fob off this situation as “commonplace”, as though the fact that this apparently happens frequently should be a valid excuse. This whole fiasco is a story of bureaucracy being used to help wealthy creditors triumph over small businesses and their workers. If the...

It’s frustrating as hell trying to follow a thread where someone is commenting a lot and generating a ton of replies but has also blocked me from seeing any of their comments (including in replies). Jd Smith1, not sure what I said to earn a block from you, but would you do me a solid and unblock...

This is a helpful explanation of what the hell is actually happening here, thank you for that. I’m slightly less baffled now… though the whole situation still seems dodgy to me.