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Poison definitely has meaning and is a useful everyday tool to describe things. Because of warning symbols, I know that I need to be more careful around bleach than salt, even if they are both chlorine products. But like ‘Evil’, ‘Poison’ leaves no room for subtlety or quantification, which I...

Deliberately ‘poisoning’ someone is always ‘evil’. [edit] I take it back. I should have said “poisoning someone deliberately is evil when the toxicity of the substance is greater than what it aims to cure”, which is the whole raison-d’être of medicine. But, there are no such things as...

I haven’t read t he full thread so I can only assume that you are reinforcing your point that some morally dubious act - like poison - vary in « wrongness » depending on situation and dosage. Legal codes around the globe seems to agree with that; the situation and intensity of a crime can go...

Ziplock game?

Which is in America. Just not in the United States ;)

Indeed! But my point is that Conan-looking barbarians and giant apes and dragons and faux-Vikings and chainmail-bikini Amazon princesses are Medieval Fantasy. Crashed spaceships and laser guns are not, admittedly. But these were background elements; D&D wasn’t mixing genres like Torg (?) and...

They are much closer to one another than any of them from Pendragon but no, I don’t see them as the same.

In my mind it is. It still is more Medieval Fantasy than any other broad fantasy category I can think of. WoW is not like D&D, which is not like Pendragon, which is not like The Witcher. They all tend toward their own more or less niche sub-genre of Medieval Fantasy, but they’re all still just...

Yes, but what I’m trying to say is that a very thin Medieval veneer is all it takes to be Medieval Fantasy. The more specific you get, including more historically accurate to the Middle Ages, the more of your own sub-genre of Medieval Fantasy you become. But that doesn’t invalidate less...

I agree with your rationale but I’m starting to see the question from the opposite perspective. The evolution of D&D and similar games, CRPG, and other media are still evolving under the umbrella of « Medieval Fantasy ». Only, subgenres are getting better and better defined, so it’s not that...

In light of recent threads, I’m no longer sure Arthurian Fantasy and Medieval Fantasy are that estranged. Arthurian fantasy has a romantic vision of the high Middle Ages and chivalry, D&D is pretty much its own sub-genre of high-fantasy; both are part of Medieval Fantasy. There, I said it!

What isn’t true, that D&D was Medieval Fantasy, or that people didn’t think of D&D as Medieval Fantasy?

Im surprised to hear that people never considered D&D to be medieval fantasy. Fantasy genre and subgenres are much better defined now. But where I come from, D&D was the very incarnation of what Medieval Fantasy was. No one had any expectations of medieval fantasy respecting history; it was...

My unpopular take; D&D has only recently come out of being Medieval Fantasy with 5.5. D&D not being medieval fantasy is something new; about 5 years among the player base I’d say, and less than 2 years old based on published books. « Medieval » doesn’t mean swords and knights, it means...

By curiosity, do you consider things like spell slots or « PB per long rest » forms of metacurency? [edit] PB per long rest clearly isn’t, but could spell slots be considered one?

Explosive Rules

Hum, that’s harder than I thought it would be. I’ve been at this for over an hour and wrote and erased the whole thing three times! Looks like I have several conflicting hypothetical 6e designs in mind, but i will stick to the « most traditional D&D » of them. - things stay mostly the same in...

orc campaign material!

I’m with you about good sci-fi challenging assumptions. I think it’s one of the reasons it’s so hard to answer the OP’s question. As for the rest, I agree not to do into real world’s politics and let it be.

I think the point is that no; we have not evolved beyond these things and yet, we use our ability to destroy our neighbours with relative restraints. In the future, we shouldn’t expect our instincts of violence to diminish, but it is sensible to think that we’d show the same restraints as we do...