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Sure, I get that. And good luck with it, because those ideas are far from dead. The number of YouTubers who will come out and say things like "Women are ruining [franchise X] because they want to talk about their feelings all the time" makes me feel like we're not so far from the 1970s...

But the social consequences for doing so were not the same as they would be today. Which is my point. I don't deny that lots of people thought differently from Gygax in the 1970s. Like I said, it was a decade of disagreement. You had all shades of opinion battling it out. They were still in the...

Sure. But most of that has happened in the time since the 1970s. We've got decades of accumulated social pressure now that simply didn't exist then. It's not a judgment, just a fact. To be crystal-clear, I find his comments on women ruining wargaming to be beyond the pale. But for better or...

And I think what folks are not quite grokking is that there wasn't any particular reason not to publish these statements back in those days, because those ideas weren't as "out there" in relation to the median societal view as they are now. Okay, but you also claimed the majority of female...

And I think he sounds "really sexist" by today's standards, but he wasn't that much of an outlier in the mid-1970s. It was a lot more socially acceptable at the time for people who held those ideas to express them--even though yes, there would also be people who would push back against them...

First, exactly what era are you talking about? Second, I think you need to separate science fiction and fantasy. Fantasy has always been full of female authors writing successfully under female names at least since the 1960s, which is when the genre really started to take off. In addition to...

Well, of course. No generation is a monolith. But there are trends. By and large, people who came of age before the 1960s were (are) more likely to be kinda sexist by today's standards than those who grew up during and after that era.

Point #1, Gygax was born in 1938. His views on a lot of things were probably well formed before the various social upheavals of the 1960s came along and disrupted a lot of previous norms. Point #2, there is no one single attitude of the 1970s. A lot of debates were going on throughout the...

I'm still inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt in this specific case because we know nothing about the context. It could be referencing some then-recent incident or discussion that we have no way of recovering. It's still not a shining statement of support for equality, but it may not...

Speaking also as a woman and a dungeon master, I actually feel like the "women's lib" line is pretty mild and the article is going out of its way to put the most negative possible spin on it. They assume it's saying "We made our evil dragon a goddess because we think women with power are...

We rarely play tabaxi, but when we do, they're based on small cats, so I voted 3. However, they're not always based on housecats. I ran a game a few months ago with twin tabaxi rogues based on manuls (Pallas' cats). They're loosely inspired by the twins in How to Train Your Dragon.

Oooh, I didn't know a DM's version was coming! I hope he'll post about it here.

If by some chance you don't already have this, I wanted to make you aware of it! It's a real labor of love on the part of the creator: https://www.enworld.org/threads/mystara-players-guide-free-for-download.682073/

Not sure why we're debating whether WotC will stop printing physical books. During the OGL fiasco, didn't Cao come right out and say they plan for books to be "treasured collectibles" in future? That suggests that they will continue to print physical books but likely in extremely reduced numbers...

And I like that the backgrounds in 5E are mostly there for RP purposes. I don't like the fact that people will now be picking them for their mechanical benefits. Just to say it takes all kinds.

Hypnotic Pattern is a big one. It could, for example, put the boss completely out of commission while the PCs deal with the minions, no matter how long it takes, and then they all focus-fire the boss.

As far as I know, there's no rule that legendary resistances have to be always 3 per day. That's just kind of the default number.

So my party has three aasimar (out of seven PCs) in it. Their angelic guides have not featured yet in the game, but the group is due to arrive at Candlekeep in the next session and that seems like a good time to bring the guides into the story. I'd like to hear what any other players have done...