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0.18% of the book notes that some of the material lavishly reproduced and celebrated within is discriminatory. 0.18% of the book notes that some of the material lavishly reproduced and celebrated within is discriminatory. Why can I only give this a single thumbs up?

Mostly 4, with a slight nudge towards 5 in some cases.

"I don't understand why people are making such a big deal out of this," is another classic deflection technique, said by those who made it a big deal. (See also "political".) This is a 576 page book. Let's remove 16 pages of TOC, index, blank paper, adverts, whatever, to make it a nice...

Thank you for posting that. It has made me angry, for now I realize that the REAL controversy has been suspiciously ignored: the lack of Oxford comma use! It's an affront to proper language and an attack on all of us readers! Where's my Fauchard-Glaive-Voulge-Guisarme-Fork?

True and exciting! Wonder if they'll end up in the revised ST:A. :) (And the species linked above is of the non-morphic (though still sentient) variety, so a bit different than the Caitians... be an interesting episode to have one of those, a Caitian, and Spot (Data's cat) all get trapped in...

When it comes to "they were a product of their time", I find it often is asserted by people who equally don't want to take ownership or responsibility for who they are, or what they've done (or are doing). It's easier that way. They don't have to confront what they've caused, either for...

The crossover we need, the crossover we deserve... ;) Or a Black Panther that is also a warepanther? Sign. Me. Up. (edit to add, if you DO want to play a lioness in Star Trek, I might have you covered: Gaming Thursday: Star Trek Adventures Species)

Och, this freakin' thing. I remember being at a Firefly LARP once, and pre-session a few of the other players were making fun of Furries for being so low on the chart, like haha, what losers. I felt like shouting "dudes, you're in a Firefly LARP, you're only like one step up on the chart...

With a, if I'm reading this right, paragraph or two in the foreword of a nearly 600 page tome that proceeds to display in full glory and praise the work of the creator in question? That is one heck of an inefficient way to pass judgement or declare themselves a lord of moral authority. Also...

Second hand account of what Ernie might have said, but certainly Kevin there (and Ernie, if true) attacking furries is... well, yikes. Kicking other fandoms to try and make their RPG geekery be all tough and shiny and...

To which I find the opening post/premise of this thread also hyperbolic. All suggestions in this realm -- whether dealing with RPGs or with life in general where interacting with and being with a group is at play -- cease to be productive and often become deleterious when brought to the...

I concur heartily. To make this work you need to lean away from weapon use as the Ranger's main schtick, since that's already covered (in 5e) by the fighter (expert weaponsmith), the rogue (cunning weaponsmith), or the barbarian (overbearing weaponsmith). A properly designed beastmaster can...

Just to note that Apocalypse World and PbtA world games in general are very/vastly different games from 4e D&D as well. So, all of D&D (and plenty of other games as well; PbtA is quite a different approach).

Might Rule of Cool simply be a particular variation of/take on Rule 0? In this case tilted towards the favour of what's narratively exciting for the game/campaign at hand and/or what's the most interesting or fun for the players? Just like Rule 0, it's a philosophy -- Rule 0 could be taken to...

I'd say that's a different argument. Rage lasts 1 minute. Cunning Action lets you do something that ordinarily takes a standard action. Drinking a Potion is more involved than the instantaneous action of sending your divine radiant energy through your weapon in the split section you make...

Yeah, frequently we found that the monsters we were fighting broke the system, where even a seemingly smallish +X to grapple (and an auto-grapple chance) would often lead to figurative character dismemberment. Much ouch. (Given HP is intended as a 'measure towards defeat' system, whether...

Ahhh, a classic Dragon article! My fav was the wording for the Robe of Blending (3 Speed): "To all appearances, this is a perfectly ordinary robe. If the clasp is examined closely, however, it will be revealed to be a sliding switch with four setting (including “off”). “Chop” does 2-20 hp...

I don't mean it's messy in terms of complexity, I mean it's messy in that it interrupts the regular/usual flow of how the character uses his weapon. A fighter can pull a maneuver on any attack, such that if they are a TWF type they don't forgo their shtick if they chose to do a maneuver earlier...

This, all this. As the resident instant mage slayer with my pally, I'm totally fine with it being limited to 1/turn just like Sneak Attack (or even 1/round). Alpha striking with multiple smites per round is definitively amusing, and burns through resources, and I get that one-shot kind of...

Oh heck yes, the number of hours I as a younger player lusted after these three items would be embarrassing to disclose. ;) (I was 'fortunate' enough to get a girdle of cloud giant strength in one campaign, which was admittedly quite cool in its own right...) While it wasn't overpowered per...