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I don't think you have a realistic perspective on this, but I don't really have the time to untangle everything that's going on in these two paragraphs. We can start with "Asking someone out and quitting when rejected" is not harassment, but from there, oof.

Dude.

It's super weird how mad you are about accusations against Fannon, while it's open season on the article's author.

This isn't the court system, and the level of proof required by a criminal court is simply not tenable as a standard for day to day living.

lol Why? Because you don't feel great about going to bat for a product called Tournament of Rapists? That is uh ... not how anything works. At all. You vote with your dollar by patronizing/not patronizing DTRPG. I do the same. Knowing this, DTRPG responded by contacting the author, who...

Brother, you probably should have set the keyboard aside for a while before posting.

Probably best not to host a game glorifying a hate group. You mean Tournament of Rapists? That one? On the contrary, you can indeed vote with your dollar. I know I've done it. Why do you think this is a personal vendetta? Cool, how many women have been harassed at cons and how many...

I hope you can read this from all the way up there on that cross. Also - this is life. Allegations are pretty much what we get. But apparently here there's multiple, unconnected allegations from multiple people who don't know each other, over many years, and some of those people have kept the...

I'm poking some gentle fun. :cool: (The book doesn't exist, and even if it did exist, the excerpts would be written by whatever real-Earth authors bothered to write it, because Mordenkainen isn't a real person with an independent capacity to write anything at all. So over in PF2, you might see...

This is going way, way far afield - but Henry Louis Gates would probably beg to differ.

About a decade ago, Ta-Nehisi Coates (who is, by the by, a giant D&D and comic book nerd) said, "America has lots of racism, but very few racists." That has stuck with me. The idea is that the bar for personal racism has been raised unrealistically high - so high that in 2017, many or most of...

We wouldn't have a word for it, but its associated social woes would remain - I mean, people are talking about things when they are talking about racism, and those real-world impacts are not as simple as a 'social construct.' These go way, way far afield from this discussion however.

That's just getting into a definitions game, though. Personal racial animus obviously exists, happens from all directions, and quite often that's colloquially called 'racism.' The unfortunate problem with the definitions' squishiness creates all kinds of derails and conversational 'outs' though...

Yeah, so this conversation is about what it's called in earth-books that are written and published in the real world. Mordenkainen can call it whatever he wants; this is about Paizo and WotC trying to be better than they have been in the past through tiny, incremental changes.

Brother, every conversation remotely like this, you take the "everything is fine, please move along" approach. Transgender phrasing in the PHB? No need for it, you can already be those things. Artwork more representative? No need for it. Anti-harrassment rules at hobby shops? No, iirc, you were...

It requires conversations like this one, though, which you appear to have an issue with. Because we're not there, and we still won't if everyone just pretends it doesn't exist.

Another way to solve this problem, of course, is to make Elf a class again.

Why is this even becoming an edition war, again?

Despite my own skepticism, I brought Warforged into my 4e Dark Sun game - animate constructions of bone, sinew, and obsidian, created by the sorcerer-kings from the souls of fallen heroes. Perfect troops who needed neither food nor water and who cared nothing for the desert heat, yet who could...

This would be like arguing that "race" is a bad term because there's no finish line. Or that "class" is a bad term because there's no students. Cherry picking one definition of an ambiguous word is a seriously terrible argument, particularly when RPGs are already known for using words in novel...