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    D&D 5E (2014) Fivethirtyeight Article About D&D Race and Class Combos

    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...
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    Human Fighters Most Common Race/Class Combo In D&D

    I meant a paladin delivering orcish infants to an orphanage. Yeah, an orcish orphanage would be pretty unusual in most worlds. I'd say that's one of the arguments, about whether orcs can be killed on sight. I recall playing a paladin in B1 in D&D 3.5, and it was clear the adventure was not...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Fivethirtyeight Article About D&D Race and Class Combos

    I meant a paladin delivering orcish infants to an orphanage. Yeah, an orcish orphanage would be pretty unusual in most worlds. I'd say that's one of the arguments, about whether orcs can be killed on sight. I recall playing a paladin in B1 in D&D 3.5, and it was clear the adventure was not...
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    Human Fighters Most Common Race/Class Combo In D&D

    You're sitting here arguing with me. If you're so concerned about solving things, go solve them. I'm discussing why 5E's racial selection is better than humans, elves, halflings and dwarves versus "monsters", why that old-school selection is known to be problematic.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Fivethirtyeight Article About D&D Race and Class Combos

    You're sitting here arguing with me. If you're so concerned about solving things, go solve them. I'm discussing why 5E's racial selection is better than humans, elves, halflings and dwarves versus "monsters", why that old-school selection is known to be problematic.
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    Human Fighters Most Common Race/Class Combo In D&D

    Sure. I was replying to someone upset about good orcs, though, and other non-traditional races. It seems quite likely that some neutral orcs could escape their community, that some young orcs might end up in an orphanage instead of getting murdered by paladins. From the external perspective...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Fivethirtyeight Article About D&D Race and Class Combos

    Sure. I was replying to someone upset about good orcs, though, and other non-traditional races. It seems quite likely that some neutral orcs could escape their community, that some young orcs might end up in an orphanage instead of getting murdered by paladins. From the external perspective...
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    Human Fighters Most Common Race/Class Combo In D&D

    And I think you're ignoring a problem where it's been well established there is one. Is everything open for discussion except for anything that might make you slightly uncomfortable? I think history makes it quite clear that arguing against existing problems is an important step in causing...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Fivethirtyeight Article About D&D Race and Class Combos

    And I think you're ignoring a problem where it's been well established there is one. Is everything open for discussion except for anything that might make you slightly uncomfortable? I think history makes it quite clear that arguing against existing problems is an important step in causing...
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    Human Fighters Most Common Race/Class Combo In D&D

    Which conflicts with much of that analysis of the Lord of the Rings, which ignores the problems of having the people who look like us be good and the people with bad teeth and green skin be evil. D&D is a world where, at least traditionally, a number of characters have had the ability to check...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Fivethirtyeight Article About D&D Race and Class Combos

    Which conflicts with much of that analysis of the Lord of the Rings, which ignores the problems of having the people who look like us be good and the people with bad teeth and green skin be evil. D&D is a world where, at least traditionally, a number of characters have had the ability to check...
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    Human Fighters Most Common Race/Class Combo In D&D

    You don't think John Rhys-Davies could have played Sean Bean's role and vice versa? None of the races at the top of this thread are traditional bad guys in D&D. Half-orcs were a playable race in AD&D 1, and tieflings were a playable race in the Planescape Campaign Setting where they were...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Fivethirtyeight Article About D&D Race and Class Combos

    You don't think John Rhys-Davies could have played Sean Bean's role and vice versa? None of the races at the top of this thread are traditional bad guys in D&D. Half-orcs were a playable race in AD&D 1, and tieflings were a playable race in the Planescape Campaign Setting where they were...
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    Human Fighters Most Common Race/Class Combo In D&D

    Which is conflating a lot of different stuff. You can play in a world where there's clear good and evil and have good people who are orcs. You can also have worlds where dragonborn and orcs are just another group of people, not monsters. Labeling people who don't look like Cate Blanchett, Sean...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Fivethirtyeight Article About D&D Race and Class Combos

    Which is conflating a lot of different stuff. You can play in a world where there's clear good and evil and have good people who are orcs. You can also have worlds where dragonborn and orcs are just another group of people, not monsters. Labeling people who don't look like Cate Blanchett, Sean...
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    Let's Not Save The World...Again

    Again, do you want a participation trophy? Rise up to the challenge of 500 words, don't complain about it. But you have to establish that something is a trend, first. You say "hundreds or thousands of items", but in 2013, in books alone, there were 305,000 titles published (plus 459,000...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why FR Is "Hated"

    3rd Edition Deities and Demigods had a monotheistic religion and a dualistic religion back in the Other Religions section. Not that ten pages in one book really change your argument.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why FR Is "Hated"

    It's actually more restrictive than later versions of D&D, since a cleric couldn't be TN, no matter what the nature or alignment of their god.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why FR Is "Hated"

    I try not to be. In this case, the contributions of the French to cooking are unobvious to uninitiated; I'll assume that the greatness of French cuisine is not limited to expensive places, but if it has an effect on the regular eating of Americans, it's permeated the base of cooking, and is no...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Why FR Is "Hated"

    Actually, it has been many movies, and the first ones before Doyle was finished writing. But the first canon in this sense was Holmes, even if the concept was stronger and more broadly influential with shared universes over multiple mediums. And the name "the Big Bang" was to make fun of the...
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