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If the claims got a lot of attention online then yeah, they might feel the need to publicly address the complaint AND get it announced on forums where they know the show is popular and discussed at. . . .and over the last 20 years or so, ENWorld has covered lots of fairly small disputes and...

They already rebooted it in 2014. Before April 2014, the official Star Wars canon included 6 feature films, 4 TV series, 2 TV movies, over 900 comics, over 100+ RPG sourcebooks and reference books, and over 200 novels, on top of 2 MMORPG's and dozens of video games, and almost all of that was...

Redcloak is at least LISTENING to the offer, and didn't discount right out-of-hand the idea of sealing the snarl away forever, he just thought it was impossible. Also, Redcloak seems rather disturbed that Durkon got his mission DIRECTLY from Thor, while Redcloak has been the High Priest of...

The reason for the Massive Damage rule, when introduced in 2nd Edition, was largely to prevent this. . .to make it so that no matter HOW many HP you have, there's still at least a chance of dying if you take a huge amount of damage (like terminal velocity falling) at once. They knew 30+ years...

They decided that being a 21st level character is badwrongfun and instead to go with some wishy-washy freeform "epic boons" nonsense of being a 20th level character with some extra stuff piled on. 5e has some nice things about it. . .but the total and glaring lack of epic levels and psionics...

I went with 3 for the poll. It's usually 2nd or 3rd level, that way characters can start multiclassed if that's part of their concept, and starting with an ECL race like Drow or Aasimar or Tiefling isn't out of the question. That way the party could be a Dwarf Cleric 3, Human Barbarian 2/Rogue...

Because that sure seems to be what people are offended by. They're getting upset that OA relied on stereotypes and presented a fairly superficial look at a fantasy version of East-Asian culture, instead of being some detailed monograph on a fantasy culture derived from East-Asian cultures but...

Those are some pretty ridiculous reasons. 1. D&D is built on absurd stereotypes. The game focuses on character classes, which are inherently stereotypes. D&D settings are usually pretty stereotyped as is, and that includes places based on European culture. 2. Getting that much in a tizzy...

It struck me, people really thought that Oriental Adventures was supposed to be some detailed cultural work that carefully created a nuanced and intricate fantasy world that didn't rely on any stereotypes of any kind? Really? In D&D? We don't even get that in D&D based on European culture. ...

One guy with a podcast tweeting something and getting a hype site to cover it (which is the whole article linked in the initial post was about) is hardly a matter of a fringe group getting larger. It's one guy with a podcast getting a site hungry for clicks to write a short article about a...

Epic levels are an intrinsic part of D&D. 1e had modules going up to 100th level (Throne of Bloodstone). A few classes only went into the teens (Monks, Assassins, Druids), but otherwise characters could go arbitrarily high. 2e eliminated the arbitrary limits, and let all classes go to at...

Not being aware of a small fringe group of people complaining isn't a fault of mine. It's not reasonable to expect people to be aware of, or take seriously, every fringe group of gamers shouting that this or that offends them.

Well, when I've got a choice between my own personal experience, and people complaining on the internet, then yes, I'll trust what I've seen with my own eyes and ears over people suddenly getting in a tizzy over political correctness out of nowhere. Reminds me of the Edition Wars. People out...

No, it's a commentary on the overreaction, groupthink, and paranoia. A LOT of people who bought into the "Satanic Panic" story had no idea what D&D was beyond the vaguest idea of the game, and a lot of those only knew from an "everyone knows" rumors and secondhand stories version that D&D was...

Given WotC's attitude in modern D&D of doing big compilation books that put a lot of stuff into one book appealing to a broad section of fans, a "Beyond Faerun" book that has information Kara Tur, Zakhara, Maztica, and maybe touching on some stuff on Toril not previously touched in any depth...

The word has sometimes, in the past, been used as a term for people from Asia that was said to emphasize that they aren't "from around here". It's never been really seen as a slur, but it does have connotations of being (at best) an outdated, slightly archaic term. If there weren't separate...

Why? D&D isn't meant, under normal conditions, to be a detailed recreation of a real-life or fantasy culture. It's an adventure, the setting is a backdrop, it's the stage and scenery the play is set in. I know there are sometimes deep-immersion detailed roleplaying campaigns where...

Sorry about that. I was trying to write a reply to posts by both of them, I think I got mixed up which reply went to whom.

. . .and nobody's ever really explained how the D&D treatment of Asian-inspired fantasy is any more "disrespectful" than their treatment of any other real-world culture, including European ones. The closest I've ever seen here is someone trying to say it's inherently racist that a white guy...

Did ENWorld change somewhere along the way to being ONLY a 5e website? I mean, it was founded two decades ago as a general RPG fan-site with a focus on D&D 3e and the d20 system, and it's generally kept up with the new editions of D&D. Did somewhere along the way it become ONLY a 5e site?