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To some degree, virtue signaling is how society works. If one of your group steals stuff from the game shop, and the group gets offended, then they're less likely to steal when you're around, and they're less likely to assume that everyone else is going to feel that's cool. And it's possible...

They are optional; players just don't want to play without them. Just like there's several options of what language you can play D&D 5 in, but it turns out that players aren't terribly flexible about that, either.

An indie comic book got turned into a mainstream cartoon and that caused the RPG to stop selling? I certainly bought my copy having only seen the TV show. Given the wrong TV show, I can imagine that, but the TV show was successful. It seems much more likely that the natural lifespan of a product...

Just like a scale opens the box of misinterpretation of the color of an object. Author's intention is at best overrated; many hacks grinding out what the commercial machine needs has produced much better work than many an inspired amateur with high hopes and dreams, and nobody cares about...

Just like a scale opens the box of misinterpretation of the color of an object. Author's intention is at best overrated; many hacks grinding out what the commercial machine needs has produced much better work than many an inspired amateur with high hopes and dreams, and nobody cares about...

The point of reader-response criticism is that what's interesting about a text is how the reader responds to it; you can't know how modern-day readers respond to the books without being familiar with the movies. More importantly, modern D&D players are likely to have their perceptions of these...

The point of reader-response criticism is that what's interesting about a text is how the reader responds to it; you can't know how modern-day readers respond to the books without being familiar with the movies. More importantly, modern D&D players are likely to have their perceptions of these...

I didn't mention deconstructionism; I mentioned "reader-response criticism", which largely wouldn't give a flip about Dante and Germanic mythology and other junk that most readers weren't familiar with. That's a failure for understanding reader-response criticism of the books and of D&D's use...

I didn't mention deconstructionism; I mentioned "reader-response criticism", which largely wouldn't give a flip about Dante and Germanic mythology and other junk that most readers weren't familiar with. That's a failure for understanding reader-response criticism of the books and of D&D's use...

What other things would you support including in current games if Tolkien had been more cool with them? Because that's what this is about, not Tolkien.

What other things would you support including in current games if Tolkien had been more cool with them? Because that's what this is about, not Tolkien.

The historical context is of an Englishman during a period where the United Kingdom held India and much of Africa as colonies, who writes an epic story of good versus ultimate evil where good is multiple races, all white. He's not medieval, he's from 20th century Oxford. Secondly, Roland...

The historical context is of an Englishman during a period where the United Kingdom held India and much of Africa as colonies, who writes an epic story of good versus ultimate evil where good is multiple races, all white. He's not medieval, he's from 20th century Oxford. Secondly, Roland...

I'm off hours too, so stop telling me what to do. Stop acting like I can't have this discussion because I could be working on real problems. No, that's not how we end up with misunderstandings. If I say Tolkien's racial patterns are deeply problematic, that's not "sit{ting} around calling each...

I'm off hours too, so stop telling me what to do. Stop acting like I can't have this discussion because I could be working on real problems. No, that's not how we end up with misunderstandings. If I say Tolkien's racial patterns are deeply problematic, that's not "sit{ting} around calling each...

So when Ebert called North a "unpleasant, contrived, artificial, cloying experience", he was wrong, because that's not what the author intended? Ebert called out a lot of movies for being problematic for some reason that the authors did not intend; it seems like your statement blows a hole in...

So when Ebert called North a "unpleasant, contrived, artificial, cloying experience", he was wrong, because that's not what the author intended? Ebert called out a lot of movies for being problematic for some reason that the authors did not intend; it seems like your statement blows a hole in...

Yes, arguing against the use of white skin for the good guys and dark skin for the bad guys requires establishing the intent of a writer dead for almost half a century. No matter what Tolkien intended, his racial patterns are deeply problematic. Arguing it's in Europe doesn't really change...

Yes, arguing against the use of white skin for the good guys and dark skin for the bad guys requires establishing the intent of a writer dead for almost half a century. No matter what Tolkien intended, his racial patterns are deeply problematic. Arguing it's in Europe doesn't really change...

Orcs are non-white. Looking at the Lord of the Ring movies as mentioned above, the good races are consistently portrayed as white; looking at the 2ed Monstrous Manual (the first color Monster Manual), with the exception of a couple gnomes who look sort of Asian, and a one light brown human of...