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The Firebird replied to the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism.Plus, even at his lowest, Gollum's goals were much smaller in scope compared to what Gandalf or Galadriel would have done. -
The Firebird reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with
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That's the wrong question. The correct question is why the ring's corrupting influence, so strong it could turn Galadriel and Gandalf... -
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I can see how someone seeing him immediately murdering his friend might think it corrupted him immediately. Is corruption like being...
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The Firebird reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
Hot take. The players DO care. They just don't know that they care. In my experience those extra details from world-building make...
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The Firebird reacted to Alzrius's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
This is making me nostalgic for the days when elves, dwarves, etc. were all known as "demihumans."
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The Firebird replied to the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism.Species as class alone doesn't get you that. But neither does saying "elves can be about class". It's the start of worldbuilding, not...
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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've seen species as class expanded far beyond "elf" and "dwarf" to reflect the many other professional options. You don't have to do it...
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The Firebird reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General WotC: 'Of Course We're Going To Do' Baldur's Gate 4 with Like.
There was 23 years between BG2 and BG3? Consider game development time nowadays, another 23 years seems correct, so a 2046 release for...
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The Firebird reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
For sure, I've absolutely done a similar thought loop. One of my tables is playing Dolmenwood (a B/X derivative) right now, which has...
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The Firebird reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
Pretty sure that B/X is the quintessential example of "species-as-class." But I might be wrong. Regardless, I don't find this exchange...
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The Firebird reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
Diversity is great! But I'd also point out ... that most players don't care. The players that care usually become DMs to do the...
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The Firebird reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
Well, no, not if you accept the paradigm of B/X. Because in B/X there is no cookie-cutter fighter mage. Because there is no...
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The Firebird reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
One of the reasons, and perhaps the most important reason, is that hobbits are racially resistant to magical corruption.
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The tendency to go from simple to complex. D&D started as three 5x7 books in a box. Traveller started as three 5x7 books in a box...
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The Firebird reacted to Willie the Duck's post in the thread Common Pitfalls in Game Design with Like.
What I've seen a lot of is people designing games where they have excessively massive amounts of rules ideas covering character...