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The, "can't be bothered" is a characterization loaded with presumptions. I will repeat - the setting lore for a species is typically...

I'll second that. Most D&D races that stay true to their racial characteristics are neither more nor less than a Star Trek (TOS) Planet...

Yep. Like, you can write a novel, and never intend to publish it. But then questions of what the audience would think of it are moot...

Hm. I am pretty sure you are wrong, in an "assuming the conclusion" sort of way. What is the point of the question? Why do we ask what...

A great example is how ethnically and culturally diverse even real-world rough historical analogues were. Travelers travelled, often...

Leaving game-world history lore aside, for a moment... Lore, typically, speaks in generalizations - it presents stereotypes. Insisting...

But who is saying that "Lore does not matter and reason for lore does not matter"? I might have missed someone but as far as I can tell...

I gotta admit I don't fully understand...or maybe 'sympathize with' is a better way of expressing it...the importance placed on...

Because you want to play with specific people, perhaps for themselves, perhaps because you know they'll bring things to the game that...

Quite the reverse. Races are part of how players get to personalise their characters. They are more intimately connected with the parts...

It's barely a trade-off. There are only about three hours in a session. And with K and that group I can either have a mediocre tactical...

Meanwhile for me what I get by actively letting everyone create is never what I want and is 90% of the time actively better than what...

I was thinking about this thread cycling home yesterday evening, and was puzzled by what seems to be an assumption made in many of the...

So there's a lot of chat in the thread about player vs. gm, and the player's right to add to lore vs the gm's right to resist other...

The notion that there is some sort of trade off between player and GM enjoyment of the game - on some posited spectrum from "dancing...