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Iunno, but it wasn't me. Your declaration "My setting is never, ever more important than the players at the table" rather impressed me. Seems to me, you bring your moral compass to the table, as well as to the story told at the table.

The aura of protection and the aura of warding are super effective. They have nothing to do with moral superiority, nor are they appropriate grounds for smugness. A paladin receives the Aura as a way to protect teammates, and a way to stay alive while doing the difficult, dangerous work of...

You're still discussing motivation as if there were no distinction or relationship between player motivation and PC motivation. I doubt you're going to reach a satisfying answer, until you do. If there IS an answer, which satisfies you, and which doesn't examine that connection, then hurray; I'm...

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If I provided the page number of the relevant book, would you respond with "Oh, okay, thanks for the information"? Or would you open fire on the answer, attack it as a digression from the topic, and continue trolling? If you're upset at answers to your questions, and bash answers to your...

I then write a post, in which I do exactly as Bagpuss requested. I list some of the inclusive, progressive authors who were writing about fantasy at the time; specifically, authors whom Gygax lists as influences. And there's Bagpuss, taking my answer to his question, as if I had made a...

Poul Anderson is on the list. His "Three Hearts and Three Lions" is on the list. It literally starts with the protagonist punching Nazis. One of the main friendships in the novel is between a Northern European guy and a Moor. Somehow Gygax read "Three Hearts and Three Lions" and brought "trolls...

Yes, which is victory for the trolls, because Status Quo Defenders win whenever they derail any discussion of change, such as "how could there be less harassment at cons". Jasper's argument about toughening people up is the most blatant pro-harassment argument in this thread (so far), because...

Rocks fall. Everyone dies. Everyone, that is, except the Paladins, because Aura of Awesome, and a few rogues who Evaded, a few Druids who were in Wildshape, a few Barbarians who happened to be Raging at the time, Mages with clones, and so forth. We then avenge everyone else, possibly starting...

That is the mission of the Magnificent Six: to stop Loki from becoming King of Everyone. Mages, rogues, and most fighters, have kneeled before Loki; but not the paladins. Hm, in that case, there should be six pre-gen paladins, and then one who joins the team later, bringing them up to the...

Aw, darn. For a moment, I hoped you were going for a thesis such that responses with the thesis would involve relevant, cogent, enlightening points. A thesis such that the friction could result not just in heat, but in light. Nope. You have made an argument about *what you personally or won't...

Do Warforged have hearts? If not, then no problem! Well, not that specific problem. Maybe other problems. If you're charging someone who isn't another lancer lancer charging back at you, then a lance to your heart, or head, is also less of an issue. Jousting isn't nearly as much fun as...

Warhorses were sometimes much more expensive than other horses. Reasons probably included the training necessary to take direction, quickly, from signals given only by voice and leg/foot pressure, without relying on reins. The skill of *giving* that direction is also significant. Riding without...

Amen. In Turner's words: "Being drunk I just couldn’t make the best decisions and neither could she.” Turner appealed his conviction; he still sees himself as the real victim here. Iunno whether Turner has an alternate theory about who's responsible for what happened to Jane Doe's clothing and...

If you mean that you and she are done, then I hope that is, indeed, a factually accurate statement. You make factually accurate statements, now and then... among other ones. Wow, now THAT was a recklessly non-factual assertion; quite a whopper. When has Correia ever discussed his writing...

A prudent choice. Correia isn't supremacist, nor sympathetic to white supremacism. He does not mind doing business with people across differences of skin color, nor does he care about the color of who's living next door. He won't be the next lawyer to flip out and threaten to call ICE just...

That's not a true statement. How strong is your interest in factual accuracy? Who is more committed to factual accuracy: you, or your ex-girlfriend? As an example: In 1986, the Daily Star published a story about Jeffrey Archer's relationship with a prostitute. Archer sued for libel, a court...

Ah, so it's enough for a pretext, but not enough for deeper satisfaction as a storyteller? Whoah. You went deep. Is Joseph Campbell one of the players at your table? I see a parallel between the tiers, and Maslov's hierarchy of needs, more or less, in your explanation. One of the better...

I listed some points of disagreement. Point B is arguable, though only if you treat a sliding scale as if it were an on/off toggle. Point C is hypothetical. Point D is an specific counter-example to the second sentence. It has already happened, earlier this year, to a white author. Are you...

Deeper critique: you ask some interesting questions about PC motivations. You say nothing about player motivations. I don't know why white chess pieces attack black chess pieces. (Unless chess is a very abstract simulation of the Belgian colonization of the Congo.) I do know, however, that if...