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This is a big load of horse manure. In order to “not take sides”, one of those sides demands exclusion and that means… taking that side. And let’s face it, exclusion is not a moral side to take. We never needed segregated lunch counters, buses, or water fountains in the Jim Crow days. We don’t...

Not really the same thing. The youtubers don't all work for the same corporation - youtube is just a medium for transmission of entirely independent people. Individual Pinkerton employees, however, represent the same company and the reputation of that company transfers down to the individual...

There are games with options like that… games that aren’t D&D. And that’s fine. D&D is doesn’t need to do it the way other games do it and other games don’t need to do it like D&D does.

That depends on what you’re doing. Some things work fine with pass/fail, some with varying degrees of success. Brennan Lee Mulligan has made some excellent uses of degrees of success when judging skills in D&D (for example, DC 10 gets you something, DC 15 gets you something more, DC 20 gets you...

Some characters can be pretty simple and others ferociously complex depending on the builds (variable power pools and substantial limitations I’m looking at you here), so a lot of complexity can be avoided or even embraced at the player’s build discretion. But that higher end sure isn’t for newbs.

But it pretty much IS necessary or is at least highly supportive for inclusivity. SOMETHING has to give. I like the older, classic use of humanoids, but I recognize MY ATTACHMENT to that as a part of the game HAS TO GIVE WAY for the good of the game. That’s the adult thing to do here. I can...

Most things in the US are, by European context, comparatively recent history. Fun fact, Wyatt Earp of OK Corral fame died less than 100 years ago in 1929... which happens to be just the year before my aunt was born.

Along with the other answers people have given, sometimes an urban entity as big as New York City is so big and varied that it's hard to conceptually grasp it all at once - particularly for people who live in it. Outsiders or those of us living in American Flyover Country can always just kind of...

We're not using the potion miscibility table that got re-inserted into 5e.2024.

George Bernard Shaw is also a good namer. Examples include: Mr. Sartoius Lickcheese Roebuck Ramsden Mendoza Bluntschli Dr. Blenkinsop Redpenny Admiral Sir Bemrose Hotspot Sir Dexter Rightside

It's not even slightly difficult for a PC to get strength 20 - PCs are not your average Joe.

Clem Burke, drummer for Blondie, has died of cancer. He was 70. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/clem-burke-blondie-drummer-dead-obituary-1235311703/ It had to be cancer because there was no way some cardio thing was ever going to take him out...

That definitely crossed my mind.

And another big factor - time. It takes time to shift operation to the US, even if someone wanted to do so. And even more time for it to have much of an impact in the American economy. Part of that time would be the jockeying around politicians would do to pitch offers to get the employment in...

Maybe. It makes sense but that assumes Luca has cash-flow issues if he needs to risk a big $1.8 million score to pay that bill. Or, this is a way for Luca to push the $1.8 million payout onto some other sucker. Given Luca's bravado, it may have even be a way to gain a piece of leverage/insurance...

I don't think the idea they were poking some fun at grognards is dumb. Rather, considering how often humor and blatantly making fun of critics came up back in the TSR days, particularly in publications like Dragon Magazine or in other parts of the industry like the Gigi D'Arn column in Different...

You mean, if we're going to engage in deflection by "whataboutism"? Since this is a thread criticizing WotC's controversial moves, I don't see why any of these are relevant.

I'm going to start with 2e and look at adding innovations to the 1e base - largely because I think there are too many that 1e added to the original D&D/basic D&D models. 2e: school specialty casters honorable mention: specialty priests 3e: feats honorable mention: ascending AC and...

In fact, skimming the atmosphere of a gas giant to refuel has been a standard for Traveller without a lot of complaint because it has been part of the hand-wavium technology for decades. Your ship has to be streamlined and have the fuel scoops, you have to take the time, and if you don't spend...

Well... maybe when she wasn't being a Daxamite supremacist...