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Sure, it can be useful to reprint information in multiple places. But "this would be useful" does not equal "they have failed to provide this information" or "this is a major problem that this information does not exist" And, if you watched the most recent video that covers humanoids...

Yeah, why didn't the new MM add new undead spellcasters to round out the lich's niche.... oh, they did that? Well, why didn't they include a list of soul cage ideas to inspire DMs.... oh, they did that too? Okay, but instead they could have made new monsters that we've never.... oh, they did...

Because there isn't room, and we aren't dealing with a single setting. In Keith Baker's books, he does a brief overview of a culture in about 5 pages. Doesn't sound like a lot, right? Well, there are at least ten playable species, except those have cultural variations within them. So you are...

I'm perfectly fine excluding some people from the media landscape. Do you know how many video games there are, that the only thing I know about them is that the main character is a woman who is "too ugly" and that the "gamer" in question feels personally offended that there isn't someone boobily...

No, you don't need to second-guess every creative decision. No, it isn't a religion and it is really weird how you keep trying to frame this as some sort of zealous religious quest for purity.

Nope. That is the same stuff. It is exactly the same project. The difference is that instead of rolling aside boulders, we are lifting stones and sweeping gravel. You want to make this about "purifying language" when we've been working on getting people to stop using slurs for a long, long, long...

Yeah, the designers have said repeatedly they made the books as though they were a single book. You need to reference the PHB when using the Monster Manual anyways, so why would they give you repeated information? It wouldn't do anything except take up space because now we have the same...

No. Nothing about the quality or aesthetic of the game has been altered by this. Just like it wasn't for the last six "slippery slopes" you have assured us we are hurtling down. You know, it is almost funny how you can argue that the quality and aesthetic of the game can be harmed by changing...

Oh yeah, lot of great stuff can come from just... not having them be evil. Of course, then people will complain because you are changing Canon, but what can you do.

You know, I see this argument a lot. This idea that those who push for change now, will find themselves confused and unable to grasp the things found offensive in the future. That we will be "left behind" as the world rushes forward finding more and more absurd things offensive. And I look to...

Intent matters.... but so does context. And I've never seen Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter, or Waterdeep described as "exotic locales" despite them being lands of magic filled with species never seen on Earth, and therefore MORE exotic that any place on Earth. But they are Western-Coded... so they...

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My only issue with amulet, is that the Lich's Soul Jar is always most interesting when it is something weird. The stone of everflowing water that keeps a desert city alive, the mangrove forest that houses an elvish sacred site. Whenever it is just a magical item sitting on a shelf, it is at its...

But we aren't going after entertainment. We haven't canceled liches. We have simply changed the name of a thing. That's it. And I don't know whether or not having a bunch of Christians standing up and saying they don't want to have things in their media that makes it look like they are being...

Asked this before, but does it need to be a problem for Jewish people to be a problem? Maybe it is being too sensitive, but I can say that as a non-jew the idea that I could be using a term for a Jewish holy artifact or practice, and connecting it to an undead serial killer monster, which is...

Allow me to propose another point of view. If the word Phylactery is a Christian word coming from the Greeks, and Christians are uncomfortable with the association, because Christians are aware that Christians have a long history of persecuting Jewish people and associating their religious...

Try looking at "Mage" or "Guard" or "Bandit" or "Pirate". The only thing Lizardfolk had to differentiate them were gear (okay... describe their gear as made out of bone) and the ability to hold their breath. That's it. That isn't difficult to include. And no, I'm not moved by cries of "we...

Saw there was a response in this thread. Logged in to respond to it, and the response vanishes. How strange

No, it doesn't consider humanoids to be the only beings that can be "persons". The names of these spells were picked out decades ago, back when Elves didn't have souls and the game referred to demi-humans. It isn't called "Hold Person" because it only works on those with personhood. It is called...

Dragons are people. Giants are people. You thinking that a species turning into an elemental or a fey or a construct makes them a non-person is your own problem, it is not representative of the stance of the rules.