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Agreed. Calling a book preview "insulting" is an example of the weird sort of negativity (especially in regards to anything WotC does) that I noticed on EN World a few years ago when I returned after being away for a while. Used to be people would just post a "Meh" and move on, but it seems to...

I'm really scratching my head on how something not very exciting is actually worse than nothing at all. That makes no sense whatsoever. :) With UA only once a month and DDB now supporting UA, I was really hoping for something more and preferably player-centric. But also in the OotA game I DM...

Avatar (the cartoon) is an excellent example! I believe a big part of it was doing their research and hiring experts. (I remember seeing all of the thought that went into just designing their bending moves and styles! Amazing stuff!)

Although I like your second point, I gotta disagree with the first for a few reasons. 1) “They probably won’t read it.” is not a very good reason to be less concerned about respect, in my mind. 2) A LOT of people from those areas read English perfectly fine and/or now live in English-speaking...

Leaving aside all the little rhetorical tricks (e.g. the article is "mealy-mouthed", colonialism is a "trendy buzzword", etc.) and dealing with your actual argument, you raise some very good points, but you leave out some extremely important factors. For one thing, this is an overly simplistic...

I think this hits one of the nails that I was rambling about on the head. Sure, that may have been ok when I was a kid, but this is the 21st century where the world is far more interconnected and these games have matured with that to be no longer aimed at just a very narrow and specific...

In my opinion, Cergorach is right that we don't really want/need accurate cultural representation. What I think people are usually far more interested in but mislabel as "accuracy" is respectful cultural representation. For one thing, when you are obviously inspired by real life cultures like in...

Unfortunately with two different revenue streams, it can get confusing. But how it works is: CONTENT PURCHASING You buy the books (one time purchase, discounted from cover price, I think comparable to Amazon or maybe bit cheaper), you get access to them on the website and the mobile app...

Not to go off on a tangent BUT (which is always a sign that it’s off on a tangent ;) ) content purchasing and subscriptions are different things at D&D Beyond. If it’s not for you, that’s fine. But just to clarify for others, you do NOT need a subscription to access content you purchase there...

When I first read that, I assumed it meant something along the lines of using a half-level bonus for someone who is moderately good at something when a specialist gets a full-level bonus doesn't work out. I may have misunderstood since I just read the summarized quotes rather that the original...

I don’t know if I’d use that ruling in my games, but to the general point, if it’s a defined word in a game (ANY game) then it ALWAYS trumps the common use definition. Everyone who fights isn’t a fighter. I can’t make a Survival check to survive a fight. Etc. The problem here is since attacking...

That explains this numbers great. If everyone adds their level and a Cleric is Trained in melee combat or whatever, they get +1 to +20. A fighter starts at Expert and gets up to a Legendary for +2 to +23. Also explains the muscle wizard being 3 behind the fighter. Untrained level 1 would be -1...

Depends on what the goal of the game is. 5e’s streamlined mechanic is simpler, but PF’s resistance 5 opens up more design space for varying levels of resistance. In 5e, all resistance is the same, but PF has the ability to differentiate levels of resistance for stronger and weaker foes which...

Not to zero in on you since this is something that happens A LOT in these sorts of discussions, so I honestly want to make this point generically not at you specifically, but your wording hits the point exactly: Referring to RPG writers writing about "other people's cultures" assumes the RPG...

Fraud would be a criminal law issue and up to the attorney general's office. Backers can alert the AG to information about the case, but then it's out of their hands as to whether charges are filed or not. The lawsuit, however, is a civil law issue. The Terms of Service is a legally binding...

Sure, some rankings might be surprising and many others aren't, but overall, I think another take away is that the worst thing on the list is still over 50%. That's not a great rating, but it could be far worse! So it looks like every single product for this edition has a sizable group of fans.

I'm not often a fan of the "clueless primes" attitude in much of Planescape, but it does make handling these issues very easy. :) Some prime sages got a nice break from the Blood War in their little corner of the multiverse, so they claimed the War was over and that the entire Abyss itself was...

They are symbols of the Outer Planes. From 5e PHB From 2e Planescape Campaign Setting original boxed set

I'm extremely excited about that! In fact, when someone asked if the changes would be "more WotC products or policy changes that would help publishers", he said it wouldn't be WotC, and that the changes (plural, I did pay attention to that) would "open up more options for content" or something...

It is not under the Physical Requirements section of the job post! Look at these examples In the cut and paste, space was removed. Every single job post there has bullet points for the requirements and then incredibly standard boilerplate text at the bottom. Every single job I have ever...