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If that's a permanent change, it weakens him. Unless he can choose between the two when the spell is cast, maybe. Damage type versatility is an advantage of using damage spells, and he's losing that.

Apparently it doesn't matter if the content of the speech is an insult. Why do your rules only apply to the oppressed? If the oppressors followed your rules... that's actually the end. That seems oddly familiar.

Not being allowed to oppress others is not oppression, and that's the "dangerous, important" speech we're talking about here. Gosh, I wonder what that's like. You posted a list of rules. If you're gonna call "I don't want to spend time with people who want to hurt me" authoritarianism, I...

Mistwell, your list forbids posting your list, since in doing so you are violating most of the points. And hey, why is the rule "Don't be a jerkface" so terrible because someone is daring to impose rules, but you can give me this list of rules? I did not agree to them. And you're not doing a...

There's also a character named Wrecan in The Order of the Stick, recently. Veldrina's bodyguard. The reason I mention it: Not that I actually know much of anything about him myself.

No, what I said was that people don't notice it, but it's always there. When's the last time you noticed air? People have said that they've never noticed an NPC in a published adventurer being stated heterosexual. I picked up a book I own but haven't read (no, I'm not sure why I spent money on...

Imagine for a second that the kid asked the same question about straight people. There's your answer. Not only is that the correct answer, there are kids that are hurt when you don't. They're the ones the representation is particularly important for.

Why would a corrupt noble want to hire someone to forge a document upon hearing that she did a bad enough job of forging a document to end up in prison? :confused:

I said people don't notice it. I'll keep that in mind the next time I see two characters stated to be in a relationship without either of them having their gender stated. And even if that happens even once ever... we're still at the same point. Those characters didn't have their orientations...

So there is, then. Of course there is. There couldn't not be. Also, the conversation was about published things. Exactly no one said that. What was that about a Strawman argument? And as has been said, the existence of gay people does not place any more emphasis on sexuality than the existence...

And that's fine when they're left blank. But they aren't always. People don't often notice references to heterosexuality, but they are always there when you look for them. Maybe, on occasion, one of those references doesn't have to be straight. That sentence doesn't, no. If that's your response...

If monsters actually call for reinforcements instead of them just hearing the sounds of fighting, that could give the PCs a chance to stop them. Do I deal with the goblin actively trying to kill me, or go for the one running for the big gong?

Elves are a common race in DnD. That's not at all the same as a modern fantasy setting, where people generally don't know that such things exist--or that they only recently became common knowledge. If you want to have a setting where all of these fantasy elements openly exist and nothing else...

It's also a simple way to reflect a size change without modifying stats too much. That's not the same as just being bigger, and having your stats reflect that from the outset.

No? Even if you are one of the few, the point that "essentially nobody knows anything about the Middle Ages" is still true. We've all been exposed to quite a lot of vaguely-Medieval-themed things, which isn't quite the same. They exist in myths and legends today. That's rather different from...

... Imagine that. I can't help but notice that none of these characters has a stated orientation. I'm having flashbacks here... Not that I owe you any answer, but I did answer your question. You quoted me doing so. I have seen "disagreement" used to describe a person's bigotry. It's...

I hate to be the one to have to tell you this, but it's not going to look like the European Middle Ages anyway. First of all, essentially nobody knows anything about the European Middle Ages. Secondly, DnD settings are nigh universally polytheistic--and it's not actually a polytheistic...

Well that's obviously wrong. Exclusion is harmful to fiction, and inclusion is merely the lack of that flaw. Besides than the fact that it threatens suspension of disbelief within any single work, consistent exclusion is harmful. Forgetting to include women in fiction is a problem, and it tends...

You called the basic benign inclusion of people who aren't "shoehorning." That is certainly suggesting that their exclusion is ideal, despite clearly being shoehorning. It has nothing to do with disagreement, no. It might have to do with the suggestion that the inclusion of a GLBT character is...

Can, sure (although I'm not sure I agree with either of your examples there). The love triangle in the second chapter of War of the Burning Sky is a very influential element (also lesbian representation) despite being over for decades before the PCs arrive, but I'm not sure how common that is.