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"...some sort of goddamn powder key waiting to jump down someone's throat over cultural insensitivity" My point proven. I get the frustration, but I'll speak as I feel appropriate and within the bounds of the rules of these forums. If the mods feel or recognize me as inciting anyone in a...

I (Canadian) smile like an idiot when travelling abroad, mainly because I'm just happy to be there. I do try to avoid eye contact though, since grinning like an idiot and looking into a stranger's eyes is certainly unnerving. ;)

In the hypothetical that WotC, at some point, releases a Kara-Tur product...that has received contributions and vetting from various cultural consultants from all cultures that inspired the works of Kara-Tur...it will, with a high degree of likelihood, still manage to offend. In which possible...

Sucks they felt the need to walk away from work they enjoyed (if not the environment of said work)....but yeesh, 'nuking the site from orbit' like that...that's gonna make things even more difficult for them, at least in the short-to-medium term. Satisfying to say, of that I have no doubt, but...

It's in this general state where my mind currently resides. Trying to look at things from as many perspectives as my mind allows me to, be they self-generated, the perspectives of those here and from other places. There's obviously a great deal of speculation that occurs as well, based on...

I understand the intent there, definitely, and see quite a lot of good can and will come from it. It's where that could go...not will go, just could go. I'm just not at the point of seeing the net positive, as you describe (short term positive definitely...long term, not so much). I think...

Through all the various discussions related to this, I wonder where the measure of personal responsibility in interpreting the work lies. I recognize removing elements of language that perpetuates or draws upon historically "-ist" and "-ism" based speech and thought is a good thing. I...

I enjoy the existence and presence of alignment in D&D, but I do enjoy it's state in 5e as being mostly flavourful and much less a mechanical element. I would like it to remain in the game at the very least as a flavour/fluff option if nothing else. Ultimately I find it a fun element to...

As a regular thing? No. For moments of sheer and complete joyful surprise when everyone at the table had their jaw hit the floor from the actions of one or several of the PCs? Sure, though not with any specific bonus as defined in the PHB. It'll be some boon appropriate to the thing that...

I find they tend to lean far more into Fighter than Cleric. I mean, even in 1e, it indicates they are far more militant than holy and "receive very little religious instruction." They don't receive spells until 6th level and never gain spell levels above 4th. They receive multiple attacks...

Certainly a solid approach, though I have to admit I'd prefer something a little more "mechanically meaty" than what a background can/is intended to provide (but that's just me).

Actually I find the sohei one of the easiest to bring to 5e. It's essentially a Fighter subclass with Eldritch Knight-like divine spellcasting. As a class in 1e, it didn't have an enormous amount of class abilities, and many can be brought to 5e somewhat simply. Weapon of Choice - Fighting...

Certainly agree with that. Telling others how they should feel is ridiculous and futile. They feel how they feel. If any particular individual or community of individuals feel, generally, a certain way, including offended...it's not even a question of they have that right...they just feel...

The Eye of the Beholder. A gladiator would want an arena and the crowd...a soldier would want a battlefield that offered them every tactical advantage and their opponent every tactical disadvantage. Both are fighters, but want wildly different things. A fantasy ninja, I think, would want as...

Such are the joys of fantasy, anything is plausible and ridiculous at the same time...which way it leans is entirely subject to personal taste. I absolutely love 80's ninja movies, despite the fact I also find them utterly absurd. To see grown people running around in sometimes brightly...

Certainly one of the better arguments for dedicated classes for old OA classes (at least for the ninja). Even in 1e, the ninja was a weird kind of multiclass character, where the other class was their 'cover' class. 2e's Ninja's Handbook cleaned that up quite well with the various kits and the...

I do miss the 1e OA classes, though I find they all fit perfectly well into the existing 5e classes as subclasses, though perhaps with some form of callback to at least one feature the original OA class contained (since all OA classes had a 'kiai' power of some kind). *Note: I'm using the...

If you can learn to devalue one person's opinion/thoughts/feelings, you can devalue anyone's, context be damned. This binary approach is not only counter productive, it is outright destructive. It is the first step towards stunting one's ability to learn. It removes the ability to empathize...

I didn't so much make a specific spell list for them as just let them take whatever spells they wanted within a specific spell list (so Wizard for EK and AT) and ignore the requirements of picking from specific schools. I didn't quite (and still don't) understand the forced choices honestly. I...

If they were to title it specific to the setting's name, that seems like the ideal solution (at least as far as the title on the cover). "Kara-Tur Adventures" seems like a more than apt title instead of "Oriental Adventures". Obviously it tends to suggest a very specific approach to the...