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Well, getting rid of MC-ing for all tables also gets rid of the pressure of "I need to MC in order to keep up with the rest of the group."

yis. Don't forget to make a few more in this vein.

But sometimes, people believe in things just to upset other people.

I've observed a somewhat troubling trend where it seems like if you put put forth an idea in any context that isn't overwhelmingly negative, that means that you support that idea 100%. Like, for example in Civilization games, you could potentially run a fascist government (with policies such as...

It would also probably be a gigantic min-max-y mess.

But then you're losing out on the potential extra gimmicks that you can add to Rage.

We're gonna have to agree to disagree here I feel.

Can you think of a better name for that archetype that fits within D&D?

And lets the people who are good at the game feel good about themselves.

Yes, it has been proven, there's even a name for this phenomona. It's called The Backfire Effect. And the Market Place of Ideas concept just runs into another problem with human psychology. That problem being confirmation bias. Each person will just see the person they supported having "won"...

That's still a melee fighter with a super mode.

For a reason, I might add. It has been proven that challenging people's deeply held beliefs only causes those to grow stronger.

one place being bombed or one person being killed because they like hotdogs instead of tacos or vice versa is about 789,278,897,990 times too many.

and by allowing those verbal acts, you radicalize people into making physical ones.

So does that mean that all pessimistic views of humanity are inherently fascist?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

I'll be honest. I kinda... don't care about how homophobes feel about being called homophobes. There's a very simple way to stop being called a homophobe, and that is to stop acting like a homophobe.

I mean, there's also that one table in the DMG about modifying NPC's to be certain races, and all of those have pluses to their stats (in addition to the normal racial features) so I don't think, in this case, the PC's being special is why they get those pluses.

Well, 1: I'm pretty sure literally nobody was thinking that except for you. and 2: Dogs are factually better than humans, so I don't know why someone wouldn't want to be compared to them.

The analogy I'd use (and have used) is comparing the different races in D&D to breeds of dog. They are all the same basic thing (dogs/humanoids) and can generally interbreed and produce new things, but they still are profoundly different in many ways. Enough to reasonably separate them and have...