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    D&D 5E (2014) D&D Promises to Make the Game More Queer

    Well, historical appropriateness for one thing. If you're trying to play D&D in a poor simulacrum of medieval Europe, and you notice that innkeepers in medieval Europe often had wives, then you give your innkeeper a wife. You don't need to justify it on any other grounds. But if you give your...
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    D&D 5E (2014) D&D Promises to Make the Game More Queer

    You reached clear back to 2012 to find your examples. I'm not a huge movie buff (obviously) but since 2012 we've had Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek: Into Darkness, LeFou in Beauty and the Beast, Trini Quan from Power Rangers, Holtzmann from Ghostbusters, and Cynthia Rose in Pitch Perfect. I'm sure...
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    D&D 5E (2014) D&D Promises to Make the Game More Queer

    You can't be serious about monotheism being a default assumption for characters in the media. At best, characters are assumed to be wistfully agnostic, occasionally "spiritual but not religious." If Avengers III has a scene of Iron Man getting a phone call in church telling him to suit up and...
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    D&D 5E (2014) D&D Promises to Make the Game More Queer

    Not exactly a huge saturation of monotheists, is it? One character that I recognize and two I've never heard of, only one of which meets the criteria. Sounds like some diversity is needed...
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    D&D 5E (2014) D&D Promises to Make the Game More Queer

    I'll settle for a character who identifies or shows signs of identifying as an adherent of any monotheistic religion: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Deism, Bahai, Yazidism, Zoroastrianism, whatever. If you can even spot a character who kisses a menorah or wears a crucifix or goes to church, I'll...
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    D&D 5E (2014) D&D Promises to Make the Game More Queer

    Quick, name three monotheists from recent movies. Honestly, it's probably easier to find gay characters in media than monotheists (Christians, Muslims, religious Jews, whatever). Anyway, there are an awful lot of monotheists and atheists in the world, and if nothing else the Manichean paradigm...
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    D&D 5E (2014) D&D Promises to Make the Game More Queer

    Maybe at some point they'll start including monotheists and atheists in their adventures as well!
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    D&D 5E (2014) Tome of Beasts 5E

    I checked the Leshy. Tome of Beasts has it listed as CR 1, but it's actually CR 2 even without counting the spells. It's disappointing to see a book of monsters getting such basic calculations wrong. I agree that the Tome of Beasts's CR calculation errors have a large impact on the game...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 2017 Class Satisfaction Survey Results

    Oh, you were talking about something different than I thought. I thought you were saying the base chassis couldn't support those specialized archetypes, but I guess you were just saying the PHB didn't include subclasses for them. True. Sent from my Moto G (4) using EN World mobile app
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    2017 D&D 5E Class Satisfaction Survey Results

    Oh, you were talking about something different than I thought. I thought you were saying the base chassis couldn't support those specialized archetypes, but I guess you were just saying the PHB didn't include subclasses for them. True. Sent from my Moto G (4) using EN World mobile app
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    D&D 5E (2014) Tome of Beasts 5E

    Well, I mean, you could use all of them even at low levels. 5E is deliberately designed so that monsters and PCs across a wide range of levels can interact. Just because your PCs are 3rd level doesn't mean a CR 22 Jotun Giant can't waltz right into their king's throne room, plop himself down on...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Good-Aligned Antagonists

    I've done settings where dragons are color-coded based on personality, and if their personality changes due to some kind of epiphany, their color changes as well. White dragons are white because they are brutal and stupid, not the other way around; and an ancient red dragon who grew remorseful...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Good-Aligned Antagonists

    And maybe that's how the adventure (optionally) ends--a philosophical discussion in which the Guardian Naga finds enlightenment and changes its ways! Not every adventure has to end in a bossfight. :)
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    D&D 5E (2014) Good-Aligned Antagonists

    Oh, sure, that much is commonplace. It can be as easy as a loyal subordinate and war-buddy who just happens to love kicking enemies when they're down, or a monarch who knowingly puts his own security on the throne ahead of the long-term welfare of his people. It doesn't take Orcus-like...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 2017 Class Satisfaction Survey Results

    Wait, why not? Why not have a generic base class and a bunch of very specific subclasses? Is there anything wrong conceptually with making Cowboy, Samurai, Knight Templar, Gunfighter, and Welsh Archer all subclasses of Fighter?
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    2017 D&D 5E Class Satisfaction Survey Results

    Wait, why not? Why not have a generic base class and a bunch of very specific subclasses? Is there anything wrong conceptually with making Cowboy, Samurai, Knight Templar, Gunfighter, and Welsh Archer all subclasses of Fighter?
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    D&D 5E (2014) Good-Aligned Antagonists

    Oh, I just thought of another really twisted one: Let's say you're running a campaign where Good-aligned souls go (or are widely believe to go) to a happy afterlife, and Evil-aligned souls go to misery and torment. This is treated as common knowledge by PCs, NPCs, and monsters alike...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Good-Aligned Antagonists

    Ah, but sterilization (whether directly or by subtle sabotage as you suggest) dooms the sterilized population to eventual death by starvation because no young workers will be born to take care of the aged. One could therefore argue that sterilization is therefore more cruel than outright...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Good-Aligned Antagonists

    The longer you wait, the more humans there are, so the more humans you have to eventually kill to survive. Like germs. Clearly, NOT killing or sterilizing humans is evil and increases the total suffering. ;) Sent from my Moto G (4) using EN World mobile app
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    D&D 5E (2014) Good-Aligned Antagonists

    Can Lawful Good PCs be meat-eaters? Edit: ninja'ed twice over. Sent from my Moto G (4) using EN World mobile app
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