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No. It’s used to dismiss arguments when people are either making a mountain out of a molehill or to explain how another play style is valid by putting things in perspective. And there are definitely equivalents in other hobbies used for similarly valid reasons. Like when people say “it’s just...

@payn, this isn’t a spoiler thread, so maybe you should use spoilers in your post?

They explain this later.

I finished the series already. I really enjoyed it. Definitely falls into the camp of good video game adaptations along with the Last of Us, Arcane, and Cyberpunk Edgerunners.

And it’s kinda silly to be debating this when the Eberron books very explicitly state that Warforged do have souls.

I wholly agree. I was just correcting some of the misconceptions of the post I was quoting.

Just a note, LegalKimchi is a very good youtuber and his video on this topic that was linked earlier is arguing in favor of the inclusion of the wheelchair accessible dungeon. I also recommend his other videos (I just watched the bioessentialism one, and it was very good).

Hygiene is highly dependent on location in the Middle Ages. For example, there were records of Arabs saying that the Vikings were filthy and didn't wash themselves properly. There are also English records saying that it was easy for the Vikings to seduce the wives/daughters of the Anglo-Saxons...

I never called you a bigot. And a ton of the Conan-style art was racist or sexist. Like this art: Over-sexualization and awful portrayals of other races is practically a core element of Conan and art inspired by it. Swords-and-Sorcery is one of the worst fantasy sub-genres in how it depicts...

I am aware. Dark Sun looked like an entirely different game compared to Planescape or Dragonlance. But art diversity still exists in 5e, and @Scribe was saying that it wasn’t and that all 5e art looks “Disney Heroic,” whatever that means. Eberron looks different from Acquisitions Incorporated...

There is artistic diversity in 5e. Art from Tyranny of Dragons, Acq. Inc., Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount, Radiant Citadel, the 2014 Core Rulebooks, and the previewed 2024 Art are all different styles. There is definitely an overall 5e style, like 4e and 3e had styles, but there is also a lot of...

You cannot be serious. Please explain in what way Descent into Avernus, Ravenloft, Icewind Dale, and Netherdeep are “Disney Heroic” without cherry-picking the two or three cute/silly images from the books. 5e art has stylistic and thematic diversity. You’re just upset that there’s not any...

I, for one, am happy that D&D moved beyond the racist and sexist Conan-style art before I started playing the game.

Fully agreed. People online are really a small bubble not necessarily (or often) representative of reality. I’ve seen several people online claiming that the D&D movie’s underperformance at the box office was mostly due to the OGL boycotts.

May I ask why? It doesn't to me, and I'm curious why you feel this way.

(I'm not trying to tell you that you're wrong, just share my stance on this issue and why I feel this way.) In my opinion and experience, the religions and characters that come from settings where gods are both proven to exist and fairly active in the world are much less interesting and...

And they're half casters. So even if it was easier (which nothing suggest that it is), then they get less magic than most other casters.

Almost all magic comes from the Weave. The different classes just access it differently. Bards use song, poetry, and other words. Paladins swear an oath. Wizards "hack" into it using years of study to find out the right magic words, hand movements, and material components necessary. Sorcerers...

My mother fell down at work and broke her arm today. The doctors said the break isn’t too bad, she doesn’t need surgery and it should heal quickly.