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Actually, all of those seminars sound interesting. Is there any chance they'll be recorded or that Mr. Riggs will post transcripts or summaries somewhere?

I don't disagree, but I also don't see what an administrator can do about either of those issues. Short of pulling the plug ... but if they're still making money, why would they want to do that?

What are you thinking of specifically?

I doubt Hight had much to do with the problems of those expansions, though. I don't think he'd have been involved with gameplay or story decisions. Maybe he greenlit the concepts for them, but that would be as deep as it goes. For what it's worth, the employee who committed suicide was in...

Have you read Matt Colville's Strongholds and Followers, and if so, what are your thoughts on how this stacks up against that? (You may have reviewed Colville's book; I don't remember.)

At least the WoW community has never had a particular problem with Hight, as far as I know. I've been playing for years and haven't heard complaints about him (then again, I might just be hanging out in the wrong places).

It works for real-world situations, but it doesn't translate well to game terms. The tricky thing is that in the real world, we're talking about different subgroups of humans, while in a fantasy setting, the groups we're trying to describe are not all humans. Depending on the setting, they...

"People" and "folk" are not too far off, though sometimes awkward because "people" is in casual speech interchangeable with "humans." But "heritage" doesn't work for me. I'm too used to it referring to the historical background of a single family and typically referring to their station in...

I don't disagree with your historical assessment. However, there was a sizeable span of time when people were using it both in the "people of a region" sense and in the "group delineated by skin color and/or eye shape" sense. During that time, which lasted past the midpoint of the twentieth...

To be honest, if we were living in a fantasy setting, we might well use the word "race" because it wouldn't have the same political connotations as it does today. (See my earlier post about how the meaning of the word used to be a lot more flexible than it has become in current usage.)

Turns out I already own it but had not gotten around to reading it! :ROFLMAO: Well, now I have something to check out next time I have a bit of downtime.

The word "race" used to be a lot more elastic than the way it's used today: it could be as big as "species" or as small as "ethnic group." The original D&D books used the word in this older sense. Frankly (and unfortunately), I don't think any of the replacement terms fills exactly the same niche.

And was already "converted" to 5E, more or less, since it was written for the playtest. And where does one find this awesome adventure? :D

I hope someone will go to this panel and report on it for those of us who can't make it to GenCon this year.

Isn't there some game or other that uses "folk"?

I don't like PCs killing gods, personally--I feel that it makes the deities lose their mystique. However, I did run the last several segments of Scales of War (converted to 5E) as a sequel to Tyranny of Dragons. I changed the story a bit so that Bahamut was only mostly dead and Tiamat was in the...

I didn't know about this supplement, so thanks for the review. The life path tables in Xanathar's are quite possibly my favorite character creation tool, so I'll be giving this a look as well.

Buddy, I'm three years older than you. I also lived the experience by spending the 1970s and 1980s haunting the fantasy section of my local library, and I know the names that were represented there. There were loads of female names on those shelves among the prominent authors. I named eight off...

I actually like them all, but #2 is particularly eye-catching.

Okay, I appreciate your laying it out clearly for me. And maybe you'll be glad to know that I actually don't see things the way you describe them. Let me see if I can lay it out in a way that makes sense, I'm going to go back to the numerical version we were using upthread rather than using the...