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No... what he's suggesting is that you're edging up on willfully engaging in mob "justice"* instead of, you know, dispassionately reporting on the news. * Mob justice being the the plot of that The Orville episode.

It's completely subjective. However the culture of taking offense now takes it's self so super seriously that they erroneously believe their subjective views are objective. As an ex trailer park dweller I actually really hated his oppressive middle class view of trailer park royalty. Super...

No doubt you want that, but why should someone agree with you when you are so egregiously incorrect?

Sign me up for Perkins and Yuk-Yuk levels of seriousness.

I agree. They make playing D&D actually look fun. Likewise the 'inclusivity paragraph" has had no influence on an increased D&D playerbase. Anyone that would feel more included by the paragraph were people already playing D&D. I would say 5th edition would be exactly where it is now had the...

That's nice. Every one has the option of not paying attention to diversity. It's a choice. Because only having nice things isn't diverse. Haven't you been paying attention? Why? If more of the world is choosing to consume Bollywood films it's likely because of the style and the actors...

I have no idea. Most of my direct gaming peers do. Because roleplaying, and the greater conversation of D&D, is bigger than the mere brand of D&D. I've often overheard conversations in which people playing any sit-down rpg were described as "playing D&D" even when they were playing anything...

So... do you* play every edition of D&D? Do they stop being D&D just because you aren't playing them? Keep in mind I remember a time when 4e was decried as Not D&D by a large group in this forum. * The inclusive or royal 'you'.

For me? D&D is this: 1 - A rules set, as in "classes, levels, 6 stats, d20",etc; 2 - A play style which is best summed as "Orc & Pie"* or "Dungeon Fantasy"... And 2 is slightly more important than 1, as in I play "D&D" using GURPS (ala GURPS' Dungeon Fantasy line) and FATE and whatever (I...

D&D is a brand the way Frisbee is a brand. If I point to a pile of circular plastic throwing disks and say "Grab a frisbee, let's play!" are you really going to quibble that nothing in the pile is actually made by Wham-O? And then's there are people like me who see "D&D" not just as a brand...

And problematic! :p

My game world, my rules. If Dwarves are incapable of being 'female' (biologically, socially, mystically, spiritually, etc), then... well... as Lwaxy says "You can play something else, but not that" (paraphrased). Isn't it great that there is literally no one in this thread telling people how...

Impossible for me as I started playing rpgs in 1980 and video games as we know them now wouldn't exist for another 20 years... and I lurve video games. Though if given my choice, I'd chose non-computer rpgs over computer games every time. I do get the moments of 'frustration'. Like, it's...

I have no idea what you aren't understanding. I'm saying, and have been, that one paragraph in a book is not the reason for 5e amazing success. It was largely unnecessary and irrelevant, though I do not decry it's existence. I've also been saying that what you do at your table is your...

Coming back to this because your obvious anti-chimp bias has been 'triggering' away in the back of my brain. Chimps (and most socially organized species) have social rules. It's what separates the socially organized animals from the pair and no social organization animals. If someone cannot...

And it's [current year]! We should be past all these terrible things by now!

Which is why it showed up in only 1 edition of D&D and only in those OSR clones of that particular edition (and then not even all of them, I think only a few*). This old chestnut gets roasted every time some Feminist or gender studies major thinks their argument needs a boost. * It's 'less...

Making an awful lot of assumptions there fella. I wear shorts by preference. I've worn pants when necessary (job safety). I've worn skirts and dresses when the desire arose (costuming). If you meant "We wear clothes", then sure. Public nudity is illegal where I live. Speak for yourself...

Totes important. But not for some ever moving goal post of inclusivity, but because those 'old school' images are boring (or just glaringly wrong, which is what I despise). Nope, not wrong. Wrong to expect others to change for them though. Don't like the way your FLGS treats you or others...

"That's my secret, Captain: I always feel unsafe." Or, that I'm not emotionally frail. I'm willing to challenge 'conventional perceptions' and push through my own feelings of discomfort to get what I want, and wasn't raised expecting others to bow down to my me.