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This gets toward the "dark vs bright" and "grim vs noble" dichotomies folks talk about online. No idea if those have any relation...

I mean, there are plenty of dichotomies you can use, as long as you recognize that these things are always a spectrum, and there will...

The one thing I tried to do in my musings was point out that hope and despair are trends, not absolutes. Good people fall to temptation...

At least for me, much of my exposure to (as you put it) "Wellsian" worlds is that it has to be a world where real change is genuinely...

In SF criticism, these are the terms used to characterize the divide. I have zero interest in yet another pedantic quibbling about...

At least for my part, I see psionic and primal as equally distinct things--and I do see primal as quite distinct from the self, because...

I could see a psionic barbarian. Their belief in themselves empowers them. Paint armor red it goes faster. Pick up a crossbow and...

Ah, see, I was understanding your suggestion as "The Barbarian is perfectly adequate to fulfill this concept", as opposed to what it...

I absolutely would not consider that a requirement, and would argue that expecting that simply means you think "hope setting" means...

I can see that being one specific specialization of it, sure. I don't see the Barbarian working as the baseline for all of it, is the...

The guiltiest class is the Wizard. In 1e, the Wizard was the every-magic class, literally the "magic-user". But D&D has evolved and...

I could see others interpeting it so, but I would not do so myself. The primary reason being that the Barbarian--even in 5e--is...

So when I used "Certainly." above, you then instantly interpret everything else I've ever said as inherently uncertain? When I use...

So you instantly suspect people have been lying to you if they ever use the word "Honestly..." to begin a sentence? Seriously?

Certainly. "Little white lies" became the de facto standard. They make up the bulk of small talk, which I find terribly tedious much of...