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You are missing the point of my argument. To have a more realistic language system -- anything more complicated than what we have now -- requires tying those languages to probably a combination of region and people. You can't have a French language without the French people and a part of the...

Having struggled with making magic and psionics feel sufficiently different for a couple decades, the conclusion I've come to is this: to carve out a niche for psionics, you have to pare back what magic can accomplish. You can't have a list of 300 spells per spell level and expect psionics to...

The phrasing was "one of the things a DM has to do," emphasis mine. The overall agenda as presented by the OP suggests to me the goal is the replacement of the existing -- not great, granted, but functional -- language system with something more complex that puts more work on a DM's shoulders...

No, your way is not good or satisfying. Because you explicitly point out at the end of your example that "they could put the Faerunian languages in," which doesn't work because the only good use of anything Greenwood has ever produced is as kindling. You cannot have a complex/nuanced...

There's no good way to do this that is satisfying, reflective of how language acquisition works, and low complexity. It's not "a little more spilled ink." Forcing another task onto new DMs who may not be as much of a linguist as Tolkien strikes me as unnecessary busywork. The way it is now...

Sure. This problem is intractable at the abstract level, which is where the baseline for D&D lives. I don't have the Pomarj in my setting. The PHB including Pomarji in their language table, and explaining that people from the Pomarj speak it, would be unhelpful. The way language is used at...

Nevermind that one could argue that racial languages are effectively a standin for "regional" languages. Though honestly calling them "regional" is ... somewhat silly. In reality, who mostly speaks German? Could it be -- the Germans? Certainly seems to make sense, then, that goblins would speak...

This sort of thing isn't the problem. The problem is that the techbros have everyone convinced that these Chinese rooms can bootstrap themselves into producing outputs that they just ... can't. I've literally heard people say "oh you just have to engineer your prompts better." I saw a diagram...

Glue pizzas. This is also the guy who claims that he games with 30+ people who all use AI "somehow" in their gaming.

They are effectively the same, but that loses some nuance. Take something like The Wandering Inn, where the system is limited to handing out classes, levels, and "skills" (I think a reasonable D&D equivalent would be... feats, probably?). That's the full extent of the system: there are several...

It should also probably be mentioned that the quality within the LitRPG space varies dramatically, as well as the depth of the "system" in place and how much characters interact with it directly. The Wandering Inn, for example, is technically a LitRPG, but it barely qualifies compared to...

That is a decision that you can make, I suppose, though I think it's roughly on par with deciding to jump over a shark in a boat, if you'll pardon my uncouth language, and more deeply affirms my suspicion that those who thought it was a good idea should be in charge of nothing more important...

In 5e games I run, multiclassing is explicitly forbidden. It's never worked properly, doesn't deliver what it promises, and messes with game balance.

That... that's not how biology or genetics works. At all.

Spare me your arguments for relativism, especially if you're going to lean onto pop culture to make them.

So I can sort of see this argument, but that's an awful lot of complexity when we can just adjust the numbers. That isn't how things work. I'm sure most people have beliefs that were, at one time or another, used to justify terrible actions. Just because a thing can lead to bad things does not...

That, uh... is certainly an opinion you can have, I suppose?

In my setting, I have a "race" of sentient free-willed robots (using quotes on that because they're not biological, so the term doesn't really fit). They gain a bonus to INT because they are computers, so of course they are capable of processing information faster than humans. If I can accept...

Go on, then. Spell out your implications.

I have no problem with this in theory. However, the root ideology from which this call for removal of ASIs from races does not present itself as preferring deeper mechanical representation of a given race's capabilities and drawbacks, but is instead arguing that it be done in the name of...