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I've explained my viewpoint with previous comments. This upcoming change is something that I feel marginalizes an experience with which I can relate. I understand that you have decided that -from your point of view- it does not marginalize the experiences to which I can relate. I agree that...

Perhaps ...or it could be taken as subjectively selective DEI that marginalizes the life experiences of some of the audience. Overall, my own subjective opinion is that the 5e24 approach to species and background leaves a lot to be desired and is a step in the wrong direction. While that is...

From my understanding, those other games offer character creation components that allow for mixed ancestry to have more significance a palette swap or CoD skin.

I understand how the goliath thing makes sense -to an extent. (Personally, I would have approached it differently, but that's a different conversation.) While I understand it, it's a little weird that tieflings are forever changed due to a bloodpact made generations ago, goliaths vary depending...

Ok, so then why do those other choices continue to get mechanical support? To an extent, I understand your point of view. From an overall game-design philosophy, I'm not comprehending how this design choice fits into the stated goals for why other choices were also made. There are/were...

My own experience as belonging to multiple groups. I don't see that as less valid than other creatures and options among which people have been able to envision themselves or explore some semblance of identity through roleplay. While I understand the idea of "opening up" options by being able...

It's still a miss for me. Struggling with mixed heritage -being simultaneously both yet situationally neither- is a story to which I can relate. Given the focus on inclusivity for 5e24, it's a bit jarring to feel as though a piece of my own experience is deemed less important to the game as we...

For whatever it's worth, the other games I play that have rules for stuff like that don't have them in a vacuum. How combat works in general tends to be noticeably different from D&D. You're right that it is a viable tactic to spray ranged fire into a group of enemies. That's part of why...

In contrast, most of the non-d20 I games I play in which friendly-fire rules exist do rule it that way (and, yes, firing a volley into a large mass probably hits someone). Missing doesn't mean you automatically hit an ally. However, as this discussion is in the D&D section, that is likely...

I feel that options that carry both risk and reward are more tactically interesting. Ranged attacks have the reward of... well, range for starters. As D&D does not have ammunition load times (or other such rules,) I'm somewhat inclined to believe that removing most of the risks (as cinematic...

I appreciate the response. I suppose, from my own point of view, I am trying to understand what is considered "culturally correct" (for a lack of better words) when there is no (subjective) shared equity between two groups and trying to be more inclusive of one causes (subjective) harm to the...

What do you believe should happen when the subjective experience of one marginalized group conflicts with the subject experience of another marginalized group?

I think it was obvious to everyone looking at it that there were signs of Cocks all over it from day one.

Hard to tell. I don't know much about what (if any) the differences are in how encounter design and monster design works. The changes I've seen this far appear to be a mixed bag, but I don't really know without seeing how it all fits together. My initial perception is that the '24 version of...

I'm not sure. I'd have to look at the books I have.

Not necessarily. An index isn't just rules. It also is a reference for key topics, terms, and etc. If the book is able to provide the function of an index, cool; but the '14 versions struggled with that, so I'm not exactly enthusiastic about the idea of completely removing an index.

I can understand the thinking from that point of view. However, given that 5e14's books weren't always intuitive for finding things, I would appreciate a (better) index.

Any pictures of an index? One of my biggest hopes for the new books is that they adequately function as actual physical books.

Dragonslayer is almost the perfect movie representation of an adventure arc.