Recent content by LazarusKane

Or counter it with believing in the best of people: They want to participate in the discussion, they try to be respectful (and fail sometimes, being snarky), they want to react and argue strictly rational (and react "hotheaded" because it touches something that is important to them), etc.. And...

Yes, sir - that's a average half-orc ;) And if it's not, it's simply one picture -the argument doesn't depend on this picture. (And it didn't depend on me chosing "goliath" instead of orc or minotaur in another post). Someone could post 100 pictures of orcs from D&D books and 100 pictures of...

Edit: I misunderstood @Scribe completely - thanks to @Chaltab for pointing it out to me

OK - for the sake of the argument: Why shouldn´t / couldn't my goliath with max strength be stronger as your gnome with max strength? And: How do we know the "statistical averages" of a species? Well - "Oh, lets look at the picture of a group of Orcs - Gee, most of them seem to be stronger than...

Yes. (y) Look at the Gnome. Then look at the (Half-)Orc. Then look again at the Gnome. Explain how this can be "abstract"?!? (Or don't. I don't want to derail this thread still more 😬 , but your argument baffles me... :unsure:) Or you could do a breakout character, a halfling paladin for...

This argument killed the species modifiers :mad: Then why should the other 99% of women who has no giant in your bloodline or wasn't blessed by a fairy should have the same ability? What about the man who was blessed by a giant? Or why could every gnome be as strong as a goliath? (Sorry, I'm...

Rational: But what about free content? Projects with no budget from people that have no talent for drawing or other graphical arts - and no friends to help? Emotional: I'm no artist - and I know it - but the feeling of creating something with words/prompts, finetuning it with variations of...

Repeated information isn`t bad per se, it can enhance the usability to (re-)print (tables with) information in places where it is beneficial instead of referencing to the information. It's in the end a cost-benefit calculation. For example - and I'm sure there a many many more: On page 25 in...

Yeah, I know. But Lolth is only one of many Fiends, gods and other ennities cultist can pray to, sacrifice people etc. And IMHO (high level) follower of a god deserve the "flavour treatment", for example some templates for the generic "Fiend Cultist" - give me the writeup of a Fiend, an evil...

Isn't "one of the most fundamental changes to D&D in a long time" a little bit overly dramatic about the fact that there are no orcs, drow/dark elves etc in the Monster Manual?

Well Yes, But Actually No ;) Flavoured statblocks are great - and I hope we get them furthermore in follow up products. But it's the Monster Manual (1), the most generic of the Monster Books, with by its very nature a broad spectrum of easy / easier to use monsters. And I'm sure, looking at...

Everybody loves both, it's the ratio that is so very debatable :-D

The good old "flavour versus crunch" debate ;-)

Why do you think a new DM automatically would "start simple", use the generic version and doesn't want to "finetune" his monsters? Or that they (and the veteran DM!) doesn't want the simplicity of a list with stats for several species without looking them up in the PH/DMG - moreso if they want...