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    D&D General The Human Side of D&D History - From Gary Gygax to Temple of Elemental Evil

    I can't do it again because I haven't done it in the first place. Okay, let's look at what you quoted: Does the word 'sexism' appear anywhere in the text? No it does not. Because I did not say you were defending his sexism. I said you were defending the 'product of his time' argument'...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Alternate GOO Warlock Patron Ideas

    How about joining a hivemind of existing psychics, treating the hivemind itself as the patron?
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    D&D General The Human Side of D&D History - From Gary Gygax to Temple of Elemental Evil

    Or you could just... stop trying to defend the 'product of his time' argument. No one is accusing you of anything but making and defending* a terrible argument we're all tired of. *With a 'just asking questions type justification that many of us are also sick of to boot.
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    Hasbro Stock Price Surges After Elon Musk Makes Comments About Purchasing Company

    It would be the first time he's demonstrated the ability to find non-directly financial value in anything. Dude couldn't even find the value in one of the most recognizable brands in the world.
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    D&D General Elon Musk Wants To Know 'How Much Is Hasbro?'

    A random cave rescue expert didn't sufficiently kiss his butt, everyone laughed and like a 90's comedian that bombs trying to use 30 year old material, he went for easier sources of praise while likely exposing deeply held but carefully concealed belief and privilege, combining these with a...
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    D&D General The purpose of deity stats in D&D.

    3e's Deities and Demigods had divine rank rules, and the ELH had epic levels, which was basically better than divine rank if you were a caster. 4e had epic destinies that could end in something like godhood or higher. Really, 5e is the outlier in terms of letting you become or surpass a god.
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    D&D General Did Greyhawk/Oerth exist in 4e canon?

    So early on in the previews for what would become 4e, they featured a feat for wizards who focused on using the wand implement (wizards in 4e acted more like pop culture wizards and cast using tools like wands). It was called Golden Wyvern Adept. The community exploded against this...
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    D&D General Elon Musk Wants To Know 'How Much Is Hasbro?'

    One thing is for sure: In the far flung reality where he buys Hasbro -- the only reality out of thirteen billion--no writer is going to be afforded the free speech to write facts he doesn't like into any books. Which I'll remind everyone is where this carnival started.
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    D&D General Did Greyhawk/Oerth exist in 4e canon?

    People were against the setting as soon as we knew there would be one with the 'Golden Wyvern Adept' feat, which... I actually have no idea what was wrong with it to this day. People said it was forcing flavor into the core, but that the same time were SO ANGRY about alignment restrictions going...
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    D&D General The Human Side of D&D History - From Gary Gygax to Temple of Elemental Evil

    Trying to cover up or silence people's very human flaws under the guise of 'humanizing' them is the opposite of humanizing. And reducing people with genuine issues to 'hyperbolic internet mobs' is, in fact, dehumanizing.
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    D&D General Elon Musk Wants To Know 'How Much Is Hasbro?'

    Calling other people 'parasites' while rooting for someone who literally just profits off other people's work, knowledge and expertise while adding only memes.
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    D&D General Elon Musk Wants To Know 'How Much Is Hasbro?'

    Yeah, if he wanted to get to Mars, he'd be looking into actual technologies to help survive on Mars rather than depend on an eight grader's reading of Neuromancer and a tenth grader's viewing of Total Recall to just assume other people will get that on lock. Like, food production, contained...
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    Hasbro Stock Price Surges After Elon Musk Makes Comments About Purchasing Company

    Yes. One awful person with total control and an ax to grind is worse than hundreds of awful people being limited by having to work together and just having the basic terrible goal of squeezing the the money out of the game's soul.
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    Hasbro Stock Price Surges After Elon Musk Makes Comments About Purchasing Company

    Stocktraders prove once again that they cannot be trusted with money.
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    D&D General Elon Musk Wants To Know 'How Much Is Hasbro?'

    There is not enough money in the world. And zero motivation for him when he could go back and use features that can be used to heavily imply racial hatred or the opportunity to force the player to have a shiba inu.
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    D&D General The purpose of deity stats in D&D.

    Yeah, especially when we're clearly better. I don't know about you, but one of us needs the other to believe in them and it ain't us.
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    D&D General The purpose of deity stats in D&D.

    ~looks askew at the Greek pantheon~
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    D&D General Elon Musk Wants To Know 'How Much Is Hasbro?'

    Well, see he's done with the cleanup. He saw a social media network full of bots competing with actual content and set out to get rid of all the actual people producing the worthwhile content while adding a robot that just immediately went against the bias he tried to have built into it. Now...
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    D&D General Elon Musk Wants To Know 'How Much Is Hasbro?'

    Remember when, while still not anything resembling a net positive to the world, rich people led interesting lives and did things others weren't able to? When they didn't just publicly act like idiots day in and day out while burning their companies to the ground, secure in the fact that they...
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    WotC Some Rich Dude Calls for Wizards of the Coast to "Burn in Hell" and I Refuse to Care

    The real nice thing as you can create multiple curated feeds.
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