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The Firebird reacted to Cadence's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with
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The carrying capacity rules support that they are. Small vs. Medium explicitly doesn't matter for carrying or dragging/lifting/pushing... -
The Firebird replied to the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism.My thought is more that the drift in reference frame can cause a disconnect at the table. As @Micah Sweet says, 5e24 doesn't tell us...
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The Firebird reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
Yes, and I truly believe the game (and because of D&D's oversized influence, the hobby) is worse off for it.
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The Firebird replied to the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism.What if the group includes some people who do have a reference point and others who don't?
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The Firebird reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
I have been uncomfortable how D&D has portrayed some species for decades. Literally having evil versions of species you can recognise by...
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The Firebird reacted to NN's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
Tha Eureka ! Ive been trying to articulate what i most loathe about “modern” D&D and youve hit the nail on the head.
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The Firebird reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
I think you do, especially because these species no longer appear in the MM. Where is general information about them supposed to go if...
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The Firebird replied to the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism.Yeah, it seems to me a case of concept creep. There are a few areas of bioessentialism that are genuinely issues--primarily orcs, and...
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The Firebird reacted to Cadence's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
Personally, it really feels to me that a species described as being of a size "similar to that of a human child" should have it called...
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The Firebird reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
It would also probably help if the character creation rules let you make a Small character with a more realistic Strength size. The...
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The Firebird replied to the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism.Agreed
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The Firebird reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with
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The Firebird replied to the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism.This is explicitly contradicted by the text of 5e24. In that edition, the commoner statblock is used for bog-standard NPCs, is used for...
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The Firebird reacted to Distracted DM's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
Does it say this anywhere in the book? It should. Other games do say explicitly that your character is special.
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The Firebird replied to the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism.Is there any text in 5e24 that supports this interpretation? Or 5e14? It seems to me most of the posters here have reference to older...