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While I don't think it says it is good, if all the settings and the core books have racism in them (these 'misgivings' are pretty well shown as racism really) it does tend to lend itself to the idea that racism is a natural outcome of different races / species existing, and so while we have...

Well yeah, the implementation itself seems flawed, and I think they need to rethink it, and a later post of mine said it would also be good to maintain the two existing mixed races as examples of the new mechanics when they land on them, albeit with different names.

I think something like that would be a reasonable middle ground - I like their intention of having lots of mixed races, but given historical usage then having half-elf and half-orc as examples (though preferably with a change in name, not sure what would be good names though, elfman and orcman...

To be fair, I think what WOTC said was that the 'half' bit of the naming was racist - as could echo real life insults. It isn't that a race of beings that are a mixture of elf and humans is an issue / racist, it is call them half-elf instead of say Khoravar like in Eberron. Then there are the...

It seems a bit of a stretch to suggest that referring to a silent majority means that they are referring to Nixon's policies - Silent Majority has been used many times before and since Nixon to refer to the feeling that there is a large group of people who are choosing not to speak up about...

I think it is more no published setting should echo real life bigotry when portraying it, don't fall back on known racist rhetoric from history, but use it's own - say Elves don't like Dwarves because of what the dwarves have done (cutting down trees, mining too greedily), but don't describe the...

While we have seen times where people have been attacked for what they are producing (though I would argue most examples we see are either the ones decried as cancel culture, that seldom look to lead to actual cancellations, and otherwise attacks based around 'go woke, go broke') - ultimately...

Thinking about it, there is often the third one, which does start slightly differently: Speaker one 'gban pizza offers pineapple on pizza, that is just one straw too many with other issues I have with gban pizza, I'm not buying from them again' And then speaker two goes into either opening...

Possibly needs a bit of set up? Thinking something like below, which goes two ways, and think have seen both in action and sometimes people think one is happening when the other is and vice versa: Speaker one 'Did you know gban pizza offers pizza with pineapple on it? I won't buy pizza from...

Thanks, makes sense, with the two discussions I ended up conflating them and getting confused , thanks for the clarification.

But in their fantasy worlds there is. Like James Cameron's Avatar with the Na'vi (translation the people), or with the various Star Trek races treated as people. Am I misunderstanding somewhere, or is there an argument being made that it is all fantasy, so fantasy racism doesn't match with real...

Just seeing if I have understood the posts over time, certainly a lot of them so not going back through them all, more based on recall of them: Main reasons I think you've given -What has been in there supports gameplay that some people enjoy, and therefore to take it away will reduce...

Jumping in here, because I like the Tyranids :) Not sure I'd classify them as evil either, bit like the Xenomorphs in alien series (That I believe they were inspired by) - they are very much other / alien, while what they are doing may be considered evil from our point of view, they aren't like...

Overall thoughts on this, yes the OP is quite clear how measuring this, so I can see why the focus is on the numbers by Zardnaar, it is the whole premise of the thread, though perhaps the title could have said something like 'D&D Move - Hit or Flop at Box Office?' or something similarly a bit...

Just noting I think you misread this part - they are saying EOne covered a good chunk of the production budget, not that the opening weekend sales covered a good chunk.

If the articles saying Shazam 2 is a flop is proof of it being a flop, then shouldn't the articles saying D&D HoT is exceeding expectations be proof it is doing alright for itself?

Logic in one of the threads reminds me somewhat of Rabbit's logic below - 'if it says so then it is so'

Still good each time at least, I especially liked the bathtub bit.

Where is that 50 million being a low debut coming from? Most of the projections were putting this in the 30 to 36 million range, and it looks to be exceeding that. At one point you reckoned if it was below your estimate of around 36 million it would be a flop, it is coming in higher than...

Second time we went to the movie we went with some people who hadn't played D&D, they felt it gave up The Princess Bride type of feel, if that helps.