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Flavor choices are rules. Every single flavor choice is. And, likewise, rules color flavor.

So, this restriction against metal armor for druids is primarily a "fluff thing" and... like most D&D "fluff things" it wasn't very well thought out, and it took a very narrow historical/literary inspiration and applied it very broadly in a "one size fits nothing" sort of fashion. (See the...

Oh, I hated it. Might not be the worst MCU film-- I'm actually pretty sure it is-- but it's the perfect example of how prequels usually aren't just worse than the movies they're based on, they also usually make those movies retroactively worse. Chuds being chuds, of course, just allowed the...

To think that it's possible for any version of 6e to be completely "setting agnostic" just goes to show much D&D's extruded fantasy product has poisoned everyone's brains. Everything, every single thing, about how D&D is designed from its classes to its races to its individual magic systems is a...

Basically, when you ignore-- not "remove"-- the political aspects of these sorts of things, I think what we're seeing here is the encroachment of "videogames as identity" group psychology into more passive media spaces. It is mind-bogglingly stupid and toxic, regardless of which side of it a...

94% on Rotten Tomatoes doesn't mean it's a 9.4 out of 10. It means that if you categorize professional critic reviews into "it's good" or "it's not good", 94% of them said "it's good". Me sitting here, saying it's a 7 or 8 out of 10, saying it's overall pretty good but has some really bad parts...

I would assume that at least hundreds of them were legitimate. That's why review bombing is such a crappy, dishonest way of making a point-- it destroys information, making it harder for people to draw their own conclusions. If a person, or a group of people, have to resort to such tactics to...

I suppose I shouldn't complain about it after complaining so much about alignment restrictions in 3.X/PF1, but I don't see the metal armor restriction as nearly as baseless as weapons restrictions for Clerics or... well, practically any/every alignment restriction for classes other than...

You're probably right that my (somewhat dogmatic) terminology obfuscates meaningful decisions, but I would point out that in your exampe, the DM introduces the homestead-- but who went to the homestead? The DM introduces orcs as a consequences of a failed roll, but who failed the roll, who...

As far as I'm concerned, the "plot" of a story is what the protagonists do... and the protagonists of a roleplaying game are the player characters. As a DM, I am not only not responsible for establishing the plot of the game, I don't have the prerogative to do so. It's my job to show up to the...

Not to mention Dragonlance having three different small (or short) "joke" races that were... essentially... really bad jokes. Kender and Tinkers are obnoxious and self-destructive, but man, Gully Dwarves really aged like fine milk for anyone who cares about ableism.

You can't really place 100% of the blame on kender players when that is how the race is canonically depicted and Word of God is that anyone who retaliates against kender in-character and in-universe for this behavior is Objectively Evil. Kender players are obnoxious because the authors' Mary Sue...

Dan Slott's Superior Spider-Man was possibly the greatest love letter to Peter Parker in comics history because of how keenly Slott made Parker's absence felt in every single issue. It ran for far longer than anyone had expected or planned for, because the audience (mostly) loved it, but when...

"Review bombing" isn't a pejorative term. If someone watched the show and didn't like it, their 1 negative review isn't less valid because of the 10,000 people who gave it negative reviews, sight unseen, because half a dozen YouTube channels that receive funding from right-wing think tanks told...

I'm a hardcore, lifelong fan of Masters of the Universe... and I loved this show. Not as much as some other MOTU media, but more than others. But... leaving the astroturf aside, I'm hearing more than a few other hardcore, lifelong fans who've seen the show and who've seen the previous shows...

Multiple people have reassured me it's not my fault, it's just how online games run... but I have a terrible track record with online games, most of them lasting only a handful of sessions, or their equivalent in play-by-post games. My face-to-face games tend to work out a little better. I...

Nah. If the reward structure of the game is purely arbitrary, then you might as well just use milestones or straight up Oprah leveling. Tracking experience points is a whole lot of effort if you're only going to waste that effort by discarding the benefits. The whole point of the reward...

Four years before any woman had been to outer space in real life.

Poorly. It's general opsec. The only people who were ever supposed to know were Adam himself, Duncan, and the Sorceress. Orko watched it all happen and was going to tell everyone before Duncan swore him to secrecy. And Cringer, obviously. Marlena never explicitly admitted she knew. But when...

He tried his best, but he couldn't fist them all.