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This may come as a surprise, but even among people who consider themselves nerdy D&D players are stereotyped as socially awkward basement dwelling turbovirgins. Heck, I have a friend who is a furry and SHE makes fun of ME for being a D&D player.

I'm pretty sure the actual people who play D&D damage the brand 1000x worse than SCL ever could.

I went in to SCL with low expectations and was pleasantly surprised. It is fun in that the same game can alternate between abnegation and challenge. I have some problems with the game, but it exceeded my expectations and it's the RPG I choose to play over both D:OS and PoE(which are both kinda...

I actually enjoy the game. The people most butthurt about SCL are hardcore D&D players and I'm pretty sure D&D video games aren't designed for hardcore D&D players.

Also people have to learn that triage is a thing. I'm in a similar position in our level 2 party: Human Bard Gnome Warlock Gnome Wizard Dragonborn Sorcerer Dragonborn Ranger Half-Orc Barbarian I can technically heal but I don't consider myself a healer. Although I tell people flat out "no" if...

For those of you who don't know it's a post-apocalyptic setting where fantasy creatures have invaded the modern world and the humans stay holed up in fortress cities. The clash between magic and technology is a big part of the setting and it's something I'm really interested in. Although I still...

Reading the comments to any story on the HERO vote is horrifying. All that hate. :/

Houston elected a Lesbian mayor, so I thought that was a good sign that Houston was relatively progressive?

I heard about the HERO vote. That's horrible that people would do that. I always thought Houston was such a progressive city.

It feels kinda crappy when people treat my existence as a "social issue" or a "political agenda" in our shared hobbies. There are enough people in the world who are either actively hostile or passively crappy towards us that little mentions like that are a huge boon.

There is the racist presumption that PCs are white by default, but even if you have a dark skinned PC the benefit from something like that is still there because iirc it's the oils in the face that reflect light and not the color of the skin.

I agree. I remember going to basic training and even dark skinned soldiers had to use camo on their face for this reason. Even one of our African American drill sergeants said as much.

I'm an LGBT person and I really like that the passage is there as a way to say "welcome". I myself don't play LGBT characters because the real world is full of cruel people and I don't want to draw attention to myself.

Oh the army flashbacks! :P

I voted for Warlord(4e class name), Marshall(3.5 class name), Commander(13th Age class name), and I put one for other. I think Captain is a possibly good name because despite the military connotation(as an American non-naval military 0-3 rank and a naval 0-6 rank) it is also a police rank, a...

Most leaders actually gave you a bonus to the amount of healing you regained when their encounter based "word" healing ability let you spend your healing surges. IIRC Clerics(and especially Pacifist Clerics) had more healing than all the other leaders.

Beastmaster Ranger was in 4e too IIRC.

IMO the whole instantly lose spellcasting for going a small bit astray just feels like it limits story telling. It makes D&D religion more boring than it already is when you have a very micro-manage-y deity who outright picks certain sects as the default and then depowers any rivals. That's why...

What is a Primeval Thule?

My absolutely favorite character in any edition of D&D that I have ever played was my Tiefling Psion/Vampire from 4e. Most people tell me to go play V:tM when I ask when the Vampire class is coming back to this edition so I can play my favorite character from previous D&D in 5e. :/