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Did hell freeze over, or did a ragebait thread actually get derailed into talking about a legitimately interesting discussion about rpg...

Because, as noted: always having the same combinations gets repetitive and boring.

Wow...that's quite an extrapolation. Maybe even technically a parade of horribles? EDIT: To reiterate my position, it's not that we...

There's got to me some axiom stating every conversation about TTRPGs in general will eventually lead to Dungeons & Dragons. I thought...

Well, much like Tolkien orcs, Klingons were not originally a simulation. But, they did serve a different rhetorical purpose. Tolkien...

How do you measure, exactly, "really care". Is there a chart? Do you have to strap someone into a machine? Is a Voight-Kampff kind of...

Al Capone funded soup kitchens and Pablo Escobar was considered a saint by many of the poor people in Colombia because he spent so much...

I mean, you can't really have it both ways. The PCs simply, factually, are treated differently in every edition of D&D, because in no...

Yeah, I wouldn't agree that it "shuts down" those concepts. But it does undeniably, and dramatically, reduce their frequency. I think...

Why is it not an acceptable solution to voluntarily take the lower scores? (I.e., play a Dwarf sorcerer, but put your low...

So, there's a nice example from a commonly known fiction we can look to: Klingons. At one point (I think it might have been in ST...

So, this touches on an important point: the difference between "broad average" for a people, and how you depict individuals. There is a...

Well, fetishizing, and attributing superior physical attributes to "less civilized" people, are also forms of racism. I don't think...

You can have different species. But you can't just say, "it is the same old racist-orc, and we are calling it a species" and get away...

In theory, perhaps. But, changing the name of the chapter from "races" to "species" doesn't do that in and of itself. You'd have to...