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All that is true and honestly, I like those examples, a lot. Yes, historical times weren't as sexist as we'd think today, or not in the way we're thinking they were. Yes, women had a lot more rights than we generally think and the social structure wasn't as rigid. However, those and other...

Interesting, thanks for elaborating! My opinion and experience still says it's a strange standpoint although, but that1s okay, we're different! :) I nver played Earthdawn, but I know Shadowrun 3e and yes, it's pretty convoluted and unnecessarily complex, but IMO it's not because the core...

Really? Wow. I never got how dice pools are more crunchy? Especially in WoD. Take as many dice as your dots or ability number (in, for example, SR), roll, count the successes, done. I always considered it more easy-to-grasp and intuitive than any version of keeping in mind D&D's myriad...

Honestly, I think that's the best advice. Obvious things aside (like not being a total filthy nerd stereotype and treating women as equals, etc.), when speaking abut just the kind of games, the above is generally true. It's not a surprise that Vampire the Masquerade brought in a lot of new women...

Yeah, if you want them as boogeymen,who are utterly evil, known mostly from legends, their magic not really working on the surface for long time and their stuff disintegrating under the sun, because you like that fluff, I won't argue with that! It's a matter of taste. I personally am liking...

I'm okay with drow not being a boogeymen. In my eyes it's fairly simple: a lot of things happened in the past 100+ years which gave them opportunity and reason to be more on the surface. And not just the crazy Lolth worshippers from Menzoberranzan, but sensible ones too, just like the...

I still think that this reasoning is a deliberate logical fallacy, but, just for the sake of argument, several points to have a campaign setting: - Because I'm interested in the ongoing story of the world. - Because a detailed world is a good thing to some of us. - Because, even if I won't use...

If the movie will be truly DL, that's not impossible. We'll see.

Yeah, I get that a blank sheet is a wonderful thing which contains all the possibilities of the future, but now, it's a boring blank sheet.

Thanks for trying to be helpful! I appreciate it, truly. Honestly, I'm not really a big SW fan. I don't dislike it either, just that I'm not really into space opera and sci-fi. Starfinder didn't get my interest either, 40k, the same. I'm fairly new to SR, so there's a lot of stuff to enjoy...

Just started to read the thread, but wanted to answer to this: I think Greyhawk actually might be a better match to their publication model than FR. SCAG was anemic, but GH doesnt't have or need as much as FR and not as story-driven, so a one-time, slim CG might be more adequate for it.

Thing is, I'd be happy not with just FR, but with several settings, but they're doing none of them. As I said before, I tend to like rpgs for their settings, the two are inseparable to me. I'm not really into universal systems, or I'm into them IF they have one or more interesting and detailed...

Well, I guess then I won't know what happened, for example with Myth Drannor after Shade falling on it in details anytime soon... Sigh. It's sad. Every time I engage in this kind of conversations, I just get slapped with the fact that WotC's current publication philosophy is just not for me and...

Clearly, you didn't get the arguments people made on the previous several pages. You keep insisting on your "there's no such thing as playing in the official timeline" reasoning, which we repeatedly said is not the point. That's simply condescending and insulting and not really worth my time...

Maybe that was the intent, but the Devil is in the details and opinions stated as objective facts is what irks me.

An argument you disagree with isn't objectively "flawed",e specially when you are arguing with strawmans instead of the true opinions of people. And that differs from every 5e book exactly how? IF you'd have said "don't spend your time on a book I'm not interested in", I'd be cool with...

It's strange to me that this became a debacle... I don't honestly know how much is it an apologism for WotC, to justify their boisterous statement? D&D, IMO is D&D the tabletop game. Playing D&D is playing the tabletop game, not a derivative, not a video game, not a board game, not reading a...

Depends on the rpg and you could do both. Regional books are organized topically, but they could be sequential to their earlier iterations, for example. Event books are sequential. Tourist guide books are still referencing historical events. Also, rpg books, even about regions aren't just...

And may I add, how exactly needing to buy and read multiple big AP books to know what's happening is better than dedicated, even smaller setting books/gazetteers, or strict metaplot books or novels? Honestly, while big CSGs are beautiful, I even like better the smaller, region focused books, or...

Basically, this.