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If you only recognize WotC customers as "people", then you and I have radically different views of humanity. There are EN World discussions on games other than D&D; so far as I'm concerned, those EN World subscribers are people. Yet again, you and I have deeply divergent world views. You write...

Hundreds of people play, and thousands have played, a fantasy game in which dwarves are 7 feet tall. http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/7-Foot_Dwarf

There's consensus on what "people" - all seven billion of them - want from the game? Whether by "the game" you mean 5E, or all the editions through 5E, I disagree. Many people have wanted many different things from D&D. Many of them have achieved the things they wanted, often by creating...

Asked and answered! On one hand, that's an improvement, insofar as 5E offers one more option. On another hand, I dislike some of Gygax's decisions when he created the drow in the "Against the Giants" series, much as I dislike the color-coding of draconic alignment... but that's not really a...

I see your erasure of Drow as problematic. 5E PHB lists three subraces, you list two, why the difference?

My dictionary does not specify the difference between sorcerors, warlocks and wizards nearly sharply, nor in as your dictionary apparently does. HERO system does not explain magic in terms of the Weave. If you run a Fantasy Hero campaign, you first decide "how does magic work?", and then you...

Well, now THERE we agree. GURPs, the Hero System, and Chaosium pioneered the separation of "here are the mechanics" and "here is the setting" back in the 1980s. D&D *still* hasn't joined that revolution. PHB provides classes, races and spells suitable for play in the Forgotten Realms, and easily...

On one hand, tip of the hat for giving a direct answer to a question. On another hand, what you call failing to allow for personal preferences, I call allowing for personal preferences which many people hold; many people who aren't you. On a third hand, the 5E DMG has a section for creating...

You write that as if performance were the only relevant way one interacts with poetry and song. Half-elves exceed both sides of their ancestry in performance for an audience; but who *composes* poetry and song, and in what language? The default human is unable to compose poetry and song in...

There's a single word for that latter phrase, which appears in my previous post, which you quoted: "Some of them laid eggs, presumably through parthogenesis." I, uh... appreciate your vehement agreement and your supporting source material? Oh, whoops. I misspelled "parthenogenesis". I was close...

You say that as if it were a complaint or accusation. If you created a website, and moderated it, your site would have bias: your bias. Morrus created a website, and it has a bias: his bias. Perhaps you might benefit from reading some conservative essays with the idea that the owner of property...

We have three so far in 5E: Wood Elves, Sea Elves, and Subterranean Elves (Drow.) By legacy from previous editions we have Valley Elves, like, from Greyhawk, gag me with a spoon. High Elves get High in Grassland. WotC will publish rules for Desert Elves as soon as they acquire rights to Frank...

I am not aware of any dinosaurs changing gender in Jurassic Park. So far as I know, they all had female anatomical sex; none of them had gender *roles* linked to their anatomical sex, such as a bow in their hair (which is how you can tell Pac-Man from Ms. Pac-Man). Some of them laid eggs...

I suspect the answer is political, and therefore forbidden to express openly on EN World.

So it's the reverse of Mad Max Fury Road, in which a patriarch controls the water supply?

"my hump, my hump, my lovely little lumps" - Black Eyed Peas 4E had dragonboobs. 5E, generally or at least in PHB, does not. Announcement here: https://www.sageadvice.eu/2017/09/16/why-female-dragonborn-seem-to-have-breasts/ EN World has explored this topic...

True. Whoever laid the eggs, could keep track of those particular eggs, if she chose to, even in communal hatching rooms/caves, and she could take an interest in the young who hatched from those eggs. Heck, egg-layers or fire-tenders could mark eggs, perhaps with wax if they don't have felt-tip...

I play a dragonborn PC, so I put some time into considering how gender roles might differ when raising children doesn't involve nursing. I came up with some similar conclusions. I decided that a dragonborn clan keeps eggs in a communal hatchery, rather than in the egg-layer's individual house or...

I'm not the one speculating on orcish hermaphrodites. I'm assuming that orcs have binary* dimorphic anatomy, with corresponding gender roles, and D&D books have only ever described ONE of those genders: the masculine warrior orc perspective. (* I'm using the term "binary" as a rough...

Perhaps the depiction of the Orcish mindset, all the way from the 1E Monster Manual, to 5e, is actually a depiction of the *masculine* Orcish mindset, presented as that were the default, the norm, and the only side of the story. Perhaps there's also a feminine Orcish mindset, and neither TSR nor...