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This is one of the silliest things I have ever seen. So the term goddess can be seen as sexist. LOL Yeah and Santa Clause is insulting women by saying "HO, HO, HO" There is a fine line between sensitivity and utter nonsense. Throughout mythology and even in real-life polytheistic faiths there...

Sure, why not...who cares about internal consistancy. Hey if the reptilian decendants of a reptilian race that lays eggs and doesn't nurse its young can have a nice full set of mammaries...why not cover the darn things in hair? Hey, this is D&D so we have to pander to cliches and equate fantasy...

Every DM pilfers, borrows, seeks inspiration, etc. from myriad sources and makes it his or her own by tweaking it until it is an optimal fit with his or her vision. I am not criticising this in any way. I might ask that some other play styles besides "let me bash its skull in until it falls...

No, new DMs certainly count. My point entirely is that, for the most part, the ONLY DMs who will actally play on the World of Dungeons and Dragons (and I call it this because the 4e implied setting will apparently remain nameless) are new DMs and this IMO is how it should be. With age and...

Ah yes and we will have to wait for a quality 3rd party publisher to do a setting that can appreciate that reality. Wyrmshadows

Every DM I know either homebrews or buys a well-fleshed out setting from this or that publisher. I don't know any DM, unless they are new to DMing, who will take the fluff presented and use it as is just tossed together with no rhyme or reason. 3.5's "Greyhwak" was a good example of this. That...

This is quoted from "Why we Changed the Gods" by Matt Sernett and appears in a free PDF preview on WOTC's 4e preview page. I am quoting directly so I get it right: The gods presented in the 3rd Edition Player’s Handbook originated in the GREYHAWK Campaign Setting. It might seem odd to tell you...

Yeah, I would buy a good new setting. Actually I am more interested in 3rd party efforts than what WoTC puts out. My favorite settings for 3e/3.5e (besides my own homebrew) were Midnight by Fantasy Flight (#1) and Dragonlance by Sovereign Press (#2) and my favorite 3.5e rules variant setting is...

QFT I know plenty of games where PCs did what they did for the above reasons while magic items were the icing on the cake. Thats how it was for my group in 1e and 2e. 3e and 3.5e made magic items an absolute necessity in order to survive. I don't blame players for thinking that magic items are...

The fact is that women need to take male hormones to achieve physically what men can achieve naturally. I work out 5x a week at a gym frequented by both men and women and the actual difference between men and women in regards to strength is huge. A female athelete would have to take male...

I'm surprised I am actually surprised at the feat naming conventions the designers are using. I am surprised because guys who have been gaming for years and are payed professional designers think that these questionable names are a good idea. I was never a fan of Tenser's this or...

I have to agree, I have never seen any D&D campaigns or fantasy stories based on actual Law and Chaos as opposed to good and evil. Even in Moorcock's Elric saga, Chaos was nothing more than a different way of saying evil. Good and Evil are what you do morally. Law and Chaos are how you do it...

I have to disagree strongly. The individual making the inernal pact was acting in a selfishly evil manner in order to gain said powers and likely benefitted from this pact before he or she ever played at being hero. I doubt very many warlocks are going to be doing good for goodness' sake and...

Are you saying that the author can be wrong about their own characters and stories and what those characters and stories represent if indeed they represent anything at all? If Tolkien said that his work wasn't an allegory then who is to say otherwise when he knew his intent and whatnot in...

I am no evil fanboi and usually find DMing evilly aligned groups boring as they IME seem to be nothing more than vehicles for the player's worst power fantasies twisted wish fulfillments. I know its a fantasy role-playing game but IME the fantasies of most in regards to what their "evil"...