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I mean, they do explain that at some length. She says her emotions are all muted, and they explain they're trying to simulate them in...

I can think of several in character reasons why she would have moved slow, or at least slower than we she is capable of, but they could...

I'm not familiar with it sadly. I suspect there are edgier/punkier MtG settings than that but I'm also not an expert on MtG. That...

a) isn't special to the proposed scenario. It's absolute constant of all customs operations through time and history. It's been an issue...

I thought that was a little odd myself, I feel like there's probably some behind-the-scenes reason for it, like they tried it and it...

Oh for sure! There's some pointless stuff (primarily the above). Just make the city-states incredibly oppressive and like serfdom...

Lol those were exactly what I was talking about. Glad to hear they are minor and lose-able. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of...

Templars definitely seem like a Paladin subclass to me in a 5E context. Probably the only Paladin subclass (though yeah maybe...

The groups I've played with historically have been for the most part serious enthusiasts. To the extent that we commonly ran multi-year...

Ahhhhh that's probably a pretty major factor! I guess it will be interesting to see what % next GenCon.

I think there’s also a solid element of “didn’t do the research, or at least no research around anything I wasn’t interested in” with a...

Yes, I think you nailed it with the reasoning here. It feels like she had the plot before the world and than just designed it to fit...

Yeah makes me wonder what % of D&D games at GenCon were 3.5E by the GenCon after that arrived?

Exactly. That is the late 1980s/early 1990s spirit it embodies. Yes, and you encounter them continuously when you actually play it...

Wow. It's an interesting theory, I will grant, but it hardly seems like the "main theme" to me, but more like "interpretive subtext"...