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Thack-zero. This is my hill, and I will die on it.

Meh. That's a whole lot of (metaphorical) ink spilled over the difference between transphobic actions and being a tranphobe as if that's a meaningful difference. It's not. It might be better for your optics if you're trying to change behavior by making one approach over another, but it's not...

There is no issue of consent here. 1) If she had a problem with it, she had every opportunity to say so, and never did. Instead, she only ever said to use "Jaquaysing" instead. 2) We use people's names without their consent all the time. You simply do not need anyone's consent to use their name...

I'm going to take the fact that you just ignored my specific example and switched it to a different one as the admission that I'm correct we both know it to be, just like you switching your assertion what is meant by "episodic" is. I'm going to follow it up with pointing out that you can pull...

First: That's literally what episodes mean. Episodic series definitionally can stand alone. Sequels are the kind where you really need to have what went before to make sense of things. Second: You miss a metric ton of the story if you only play parts of it. If your argument is that you can just...

Also, Dragonlance didn't start the "adventure path" style of linked sequential modules, either. GDQ beat it to the punch by several, years. Weirdly, no one ever seems to claim that GDQ "ruined everything."

1) If you know the modules came first, why did you claim that they're scripted retellings of the novels? That's literally only possible if the novels came first. 2) I never said they weren't railroads. In fact, I explicitly said they were MORE railroady than I like. 3) Posting lines to people...

Backwards. I'm not sure how this has managed to dig so deeply into the zeitgeist of the hobby, but it's utterly wrong. The reality is completely the other way around. The Dragonlance original trilogy is a novelization of the modules. Those characters were the pregens that was included standard...

If. I strongly suspect that that the overwhelming majority of adventures don't break that way. Lets be clear here: I'm sure there are a fair handful of people on these forums that have some adventure or another more than once for completely difference groups. But the percentage of books sold...

Literally no one is saying the Sharrans aren't guilty of assault, kidnapping, and murder. I know it's hard to understand, but it's possible to look at something and say "This group is bad, but this other group, which is less bad in this particular instance, are also pretty terrible." And no...

I rather strongly suspect that it isn't that your group needs/wants strong guidance and a plot to be pushed along. It's that they expect it and get lost and confused because they're waiting for something that isn't coming. They're probably all very used to being lead around by the nose in video...

It sure does, but that's how it works, and has for some time now.

Even without an alignment entry, you can still see it represented as Selune is good and right for doing all of the above by the original author and every other author along the way since, though. Even with all of it happening before Shar turned to evil (because she literally turned to evil as a...

Not sure why you went off on a tangent about the specific age of the little kids being abandoned in the woods, but yeah, probably around 10. Half elves don't start aging differently from humans until after puberty, and haven't for several editions at this point. Regardless, abandoning the kids...

You're right, but when the conversation turned to "why aren't the gods helping?", people kept listing her as if she's a god who could help in divine ways. She's not and she IS helping, within the bounds of her ability and personality. Selune's worship is also toxic. Extremely so. They think...

Yes, the gods are useless and stupid. It's long been an important, one might even say foundational, aspect of the setting (and one of the many reasons I hate it). But some people in this conversation are being unfair to Vlaakith. She's not a goddess, no matter how much she and her followers say...

Can you do planar travel under your own power? If yes, it's easy to get in. If no, then it's a lot harder. Once you're on the right plane and in the vicinity of the city on that plane, yeah, it's probably literally the easiest party to gatecrash there ever was. But you do actually have to get...

Yeah, there aren't 17,000 endings. There are like half a dozen with like half a dozen potential romances modifying that one of a couple of ways each, and then a bunch of minor things that might get referenced in some way near the end that they multiplies together to come to that number. And no...

For real. If you worship Sune, Sharess, Lliira, or Tymora, you go to the best afterlife in all of fiction. Or... you can skip that bit and just go to Brightwater in person while you're alive. Same great party, no need to suck up to the gods about it. Harder to get a ticket, but still easier than...

I would say that the line isn't that fine and "way more than needed" is the hobby standard level of prep. Which generally leads to railroading, because if you don't play through what the DM spent all that time prepping, then it was a waste of time, right? (No I'm not saying everyone thinks this...