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In the real world, each person thinks their religion is true, but there are a vast variety of beliefs (including atheism) because the supernatural is a great mystery. In D&D, the gods are empirically established as real like any politician or celebrity. This results in a single pantheon of gods...

I shouldn't speak for Yaarel, but I suspect it's more than that. I myself hate the way D&D and other fantasy games treat polytheism as an objective fact of the world. That is, rather than treating polytheism as something that some cultures believe (with different cultures having different...

Yaarel didn't say they thought it violated their theology, they simply said they don't want to pretend that their character is doing it. That is perfectly fair, just about everyone has some things that they don't want to imagine their character doing or have in their games.

That seems like something that the players would work out ahead of time, not left up to the dice.

Once when I was running a game of 13th Age (which uses the standard d20 initiative system a la 3e/4e/5e) the party was exploring a tomb with the paladin in the lead. When he entered a room with a bunch of skeletons in it, I called for initiative rolls. The result was that the paladin had to go...

Numenera works like this, so I'd like to hear the experiences of people who have played that game.

It also works as a flotation device.

Why would it ignore a threat that is in the process of killing it?

All of the books are still perfect bound which is a cheap method of binding. So even if they made some attempt to address the issue (like switch printers) they are still going with a type of binding that isn't up to the standards you'd expect from a hardcover (although it's now a very common way...

Iserith, what kind of mechanics would you consider problematic enough to change? Or to put it another way, when problems occur during play, where do you draw the line for blaming the game designer rather than the DM?

Sure, but JD seems to be very arbitrary in how he applies standards, which is the point.

My comment wasn't about the optimal makeup of the cast of a Hollywood movie in order for studios to make money, it was about the double standard being used to judge Western media. JD wants to criticize Western creators for their lack of characters corresponding to global demographics and at the...

This seems deliberately hyperbolic. The buying habits of people doesn't even constitute evidence of peoples' priorities? And it's bizarre to describe my comment as an experiment and holding it to the standards of experimentation when it's not an experiment at all but an observation of peoples'...

Can't PCs easily move out of the way?

Yes, but those attempts came after the huge increase in overseas demand for Hollywood movies, they are not what caused the demand. No, the point is that you aren't providing a clear standard for diversity that art can abide by. You have provided four different standards: -Global ("in 'the...

What creatures are you imagining this giant charging through?

If people across the globe are buying Western media despite it not reflecting global demographics let alone their own local ethnic mix then clearly that type of diversity in said media is not a priority to non-Westerners. Art made in Mexico needs to feature mostly non-hispanics?

So Western art is obligated to conform to global proportions of ethnicities but Chinese, Indian and African art aren't?

This is conflating the way users play the game with what the designers had in mind when they are two completely different things. How people play the game has no bearing on what the designers intentions were, just as how someone chooses to use a screwdriver says nothing about the screwdriver's...