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Nah. I believe what they're saying is that D&D, of its nature, is an adventure with, to some degree, relatively "high stakes". "Cozy"...

There's a fair bit more that defines the 'cosy' fantasy genre than simply the explicitness of the sex scenes. Cosy fantasy doesn't even...

Post Tashas D&D has absolutely trended towards cozy, twee, soft, lacking in edge, whatever one wants to call it. 5.5 went even further...

But ONLY if people actually use it appropriately. "Thou" is a subject word. It is the second-person equivalent of "I" and "he/she"...

But that doesn’t make other languages “prehistoric”. English is only a few hundred years old. There are elves older than English (which...

The core of D&D is adventure fantasy, sure. But what's wrong with stretching the genres of fantasy we can play in with D&D?

The issue with pronouns, particularly in languages like French or Spanish, is the grammar requires you to convey information about...

No worries, if this cozy feelings thing isn't your taste, I'm sure you'll be able to find another D&D story with higher stakes. Like I...

Wild Beyond the Witchlight isn't cozy?

Because those are artificial things designed to put humans in boxes. I generally prefer to keep people out of boxes as much as possible...

It is the story of two star-crossed lovers, one a tiefling and the other an aasimar?

Or a gnome and a kobold?

While Shakespeare is a particularly important example, given his influence on modern English, we can definitely say goes back even...

You know what, my apologies. We've had some issues here with hate speech, but my guard was raised to high and I lashed out; that is an...

Luis, so you are aware - use of "they" or "them" as an individual, non-gendered pronouns in English goes back to the 15th century, at...