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I agree with your characterization of twitter as a cesspool, but I think merely “using Twitter” was the least of Ernie’s many, many mistakes.

I know, I just have an opinion on this topic and couldn’t help myself from expressing it! 😛 mea culpa. Also, I agree with your point.

Everything you said was 100% correct except this bit. The poster to whom you were responding is right: Fair Use is a balancing of factors, parody/satire being one of them (in the US at least). Another factor is whether the song is for-profit, which is why he has released songs for free when he...

This is why I’m not super crazy about Elves as a common PC race, or even as common NPCs (probably an unpopular opinion, I realize). When Elves are common in the setting, they do tend to wind up as little more than pointy eared humans. I like Elves a lot. I like them as ethereal, aloof...

I really don’t think you’re fairly characterizing your opponents’ positions. I don’t think anyone begrudges you your opinion, or objects to you brainstorming solutions to your problem (I certainly don’t). The issue (for me at least) is your apparent insistence that it’s not just your problem...

I think the point you’re missing is that just because you have a problem with the PHB Halfling doesn’t mean they need to be “excused”. Your personal preferences and opinions don’t have that kind of weight. There’s no objective problem here, no matter how much you insist there is—just different...

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Honestly? I don’t buy this for a second. The game has a tonne of different races. Except for Dwarves and Elves, ALL of them have extremely little presence in the game. That’s not a Halfling specific issue. Nor is it really an issue at all IMO. Not every race needs more than a brief spotlight...

Right, and what I’m trying to communicate is that it’s ok if you don’t get it and if you don’t think they’re different enough. I don’t get dragonborn; they just aren’t for me. 5E FR Halflings just aren’t for you it would seem. I also think you’re overlooking a plethora of other settings (e.g...

EDIT: I’m gonna leave my post up, because I think it articulates a particular perspective reasonably well, but on reflection it’s not a very good response to the post to which I am replying. I apologize if I’ve misrepresented your position at all. ——- You’ve got plenty of examples of people...

We’ll just have to agree to disagree on this one! Obviously, we have different design priorities and preferences, and that’s fair enough. i will say that I was speaking with a hypothetical WotC “official” arcane gish in mind, whereas you’re talking about homebrew. Different contexts, different...

And yet it seems you’ve nonetheless decided to address this (non-)issue by moving the bladesinger out of the wizard class and into your gish class? You’ve reappropriated the design space taken up by the wizard subclass for your gish, thus partially addressing the issue.To be clear, it’s not an...

i ninja’d you by about two seconds with an edit to my post. Funny timing/coincidence. Didn’t mean to steal your thunder! Obviously, I completely agree with you.

I feel like the inclusion of the Eldritch Knight (fighter) and Blade Singer (wizard) have really narrowed the design space (thematically and mechanically) for a generic arcane gish class. If those two subclasses weren’t a thing, it’d be an easier nut to crack. Edit: the Paladin’s spell slot...

Not sure how they were portrayed in AD&D, but they are indeed evil gnomes in Pathfinder. Here’s the description from the pfsrd; judge for yourself if they’re too thematically similar to Duergar. They’re distinct enough for my tastes.

I feel some pity for him reading this post, tbh. He’s so unbelievably out of touch. Harbouring a high school fantasy of revenge against the bullies making your life miserable is understandable, but openly discussing the violent particulars of that fantasy today, given the sheer number of school...

Not hard to do, considering both are diminutive humanoids with the power to grow. Personally, I prefer spriggans, but that’s probably because of fond memories of running Kingmaker about ten years ago. Loved that campaign.

I don’t disagree with you and think it’s a good idea, but I’d like to believe the TTRPG industry is a little further along than the NFL in this regard. Yes, there are lots of bigots, but gay and trans creators (extremely successful and critically aclaimed people at that) have openly been a part...

I prefer to be generous with animal intelligence for things like speak with animals, for a few reasons: 1. I like my players to feel rewarded for both their in-game decisions and their character building choices (e.g. spell choice), 2. I like to err on the side of moving things forward and not...

Most likely. Possibly (less likely imho) even just U. Rakdos seems unlikely to me.