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But Mr Crawford, I need you opinion, in official D&D is water considered wet?

Me in the 90s reading Homeland at 13. Someone else asking me what I'm reading. Me, finding myself in the position of explaining what a Dark elf is and realising how dodgy the whole concept it. The thing that puzzles me about a lot of the recent social justice movements around D&D, is that...

One of the elements in Sword and Sorcery, especially via Conan, is the idea of cyclic and frequently catastrophic history. In the Conan stories this is filled with all kinds of assumptions from 19th century race "science" but it doesn't really need to be. However, any progress in Conan's world...

They're all fine ideas, but I don't see why they would be in a PHB. They're DM ideas, surely they belong in the DMG as possiblities? Or in a setting book.

My observation of halfling PCs is that people tend to play them in a way which is tonally distinct from humans. I'm not sure how relevant lore is to all this (and really I think lore is a fandom fixation, not a practical game issue anyway). My observation has been in actual play halflings are...

Perhaps. But that is subjective. I find that art looks cooler if it also looks functional. I just find it hard to be excited by fantasy characters that are wearing armour and wielding weapons that look like some combination of painted cosplay cardboard and polystyrene. But I don't actually...

Yes. Those are the rather ridiculous ones that were posted before yes. And the D&D one's are equally ridiculous. None of them look like something you would see in history. The dwarf with the helmet wings wouldn't be so bad without the helmet wings, but he does have helmet wings (and a...

I don't understand why you are posting new pictures when I am commenting on previous ones. Those NEW pictures largely look like armour (except for the helmet with the horns on it). I did say I wasn't commenting on Warhammer Dwarves in general. It's almost as if you're commenting on a post...

I always dump them. I figure Dwarves are always capable of being evil on their own.

Well that's not as bad as the others. I wasn't commenting on Warhammer Dwarves in general just the oddness of the idea that the a Dwarf with huge decorative wings on there helmet was somehow "not ridiculous". Although so far no one has posted any pictures of dwarves wearing armour that...

I find furry races tedious unless they are deeply integrated into symbolism and setting lore. I feel they're almost always easy but lazy design. Pick some animal that people know and let that do 90% of the work for you. There's a reason they were a mainstay of fantasy heartbreakers.

Can't be very new guard if they're being compared to Kender, a race from a campaign setting that has been out of print for a generation.

Evidence needed.

Why is it necessary for D&D to seize upon one possibility and foreclose others? Why is rigidity desired? We already have Dwarves which are northern european to the extent they are out of place in settings not based on northern Europe. Why is it desirable to do so again?

Okay then. Don't do that then? Find a niche that could be filled by humans and fill it with halflings.

Why do Dwarves need to be more non-human? What would be the advantage of that in practical terms? The more non-human you make the player races the harder you make it for people to play them.

It should be obvious that the humans are the problem. They're all over the place, filling all kind of niches, and don't have any clear thematic unity to them. They don't even get a cool flavourful racial ability that makes them really stand out. Humans clearly need to go.

I remain puzzled less by people's reaction to halflings then I am by the idea that there's something singular about halflings. Like the idea expressed earlier about knowing what to do with all the other races except halflings. To me one of the biggest issues is that just about all the races are...

That's weird. So real world entymology exists in fantasy worlds too? Surely if you're being consistent then the Dwarf name for themselves would be in old norse and be something like Dvergar? Why not do the same for halflings then? Make up some fantasy entymology for how the first two...

You know...I have never had "Dwarf" as the name that the Dwarves use among themselves either. For obvious reasons.