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True, but I also don't think that's a unique situation. Most people that put themselves out there are going to have their detractors (putting it very mildly) looking for an opportunity, and of many of those who do, it's often going to be because of who they are rather than what they do. The...

Agreed. I've posted this video before, but Lindsay Ellis' harassment is a good example of how our tendency to jump to judgement of not only content, but the people making said content can be substantially harmful. It's worth noting that while she says she's fine in that video, after 6 more...

No way. I insist that all players RP their elves in a way consistent with how they're portrayed in the Complete Book of Elves. Definitely the best book to come out of TSR in 2E, and possibly ever.

Tome of Magic and the Arms and Equipment Guide, specifically. The DM and Player Option books weren't included until the 2.0 release.

At the very least, WotC didn't come up with the concept nor the terminology of "core rules." After all, that was literally the name TSR gave to their digital tool in 1996 (which included digital copies of the PHB/DMG/MM). I don't know if that's the first instance of them using it or if they...

I think that entirely depends on how you have your cosmology set up. If good and evil are fundamental forces, then it doesn't matter what people's opinions of them are. And in my opinion, alignment makes way more sense when there's something to be aligned with. Also, "evil doesn't exist"...

Hey, fair play: usually it's the orcs and drow that find their way into every other topic. (but seriously guys, this tangent stopped being productive by the time it had enough form to be called a tangent).

I think maybe the perception changed a bit in 3E, where they were often portrayed as barbarians, with barbarians requiring a non-lawful alignment.

Honestly? Only through a very specific D&Desque lens. A lot of heroic myths have the heroes painted as special from an early age. Hercules with his strength. Achilles with his invulnerability. Not many I can think of where the hero starts out as a nobody and then progresses to superheroic...

The solution I proposed in the conversation that quote if from (context, yay!) did no such thing. It was about categorizing abilities, spells included, so that those who want more fantastical martials could have them without taking away from those who don't and those who want less universally...

I agree that this is a method that at least mitigates the problem (though it does not, in my mind, solve it), but I think this is also somewhat incompatible with the way a lot of people handle leveling these days. I would venture to say that outside of sandbox style campaigns, milestone...

It absolutely is not. It's what some people want from "zero to hero," but for some us, "hero" stops way short of "superhero." Sure. And that's fixable. People have made suggestions on how to do so in the last 29 pages.

I think it's more bizarre to expect every game to completely change sub-genres of fantasy throughout the campaign than it is for people wanting to play a specific sub-genre to be able to do so throughout the full range of levels. Again, it just seems completely dismissive to tell people that...

The problem is that's only a good idea for people who want that dramatic power increase, which ain't everyone. In 5E? Certainly not. But it isn't unsolvable at all. Off the top of my head, you could have tiered abilities at all levels of play, and your character only has access to the tier...

I'm using the word accurately, given the context. You're thinking of it as a synonym for "banal;" I'm using it as an antonym to "supernatural." And that's the first and last time I speak on that here. I'm not getting dragged into a definition war again. Of course if you're saying that pure...

Contrariwise, I'd rather have both magic items and spells put in the same category. No assumption of either. Give casters a few reliable tricks that grow on par with martial characters as current, and then anything beyond that is handed out as treasure with the same frequency as any other...

Hey, I'll strap on that straight jacket right along with you. Someone mentioned 2 page write-ups as being a solution to the alphabetizing issue that would be a waste of paper, but honestly, I'd be 100% for returning to small releases of well detailed monsters in loose leaf format, and you're...

Right. So maybe try phrasing your opinions as your opinions next time instead of just trolling everyone.

That's not how problems work.

I think QR codes for stat blocks and a phone app would fix that problem pretty handily.