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Quick question: How many people who are arguing this issue are people of color?

This sounds very similar to some things I remember from World of Darkness. Like, in Changeling: The Lost, the different types of changelings are called kiths, and they are even more different from each than elves and dwarves and halflings. It'd be pretty easy to import something similar into...

The 1st amendment means that you can't be thrown in jail for running your mouth about the government. It doesn't mean that private citizens who own or maintain a product or service owe you a platform.

This is pretty much where I am. I'm a gay Black woman, and that in itself seems to make me far more fantastical in some games than actual elves and dwarves. My major concerns about the hobby cannot be reduced to the use of a single word. I won't weep if someone replaces race with some other...

I was not talking to you. I refuse to get sucked into a pointless argument or debate with you. Leave. Me. Alone.

This would be a lot more interesting to me as well. I've encountered the trope where fantasy white people interact with mysterious, exotic, and/or "savage" fantasy brown people thing more than enough times.

If you're looking for systems that are easy to transport to a PbEM format, here are a few I've heard good things about and/or have very simple mechanics (yes, simpler than D&D) that don't require a lot of randomization. De Profundis Fiasco Musette Callisto S/Lay with Me In the Shadows of the...

There is literally not enough time in the day. I'm not saying "literally" as a means of emphasis. I mean that factually. I do not have the time to rehash and debate everything you've said that contributed to the downward spiral of both of these threads.

I'm sure your intentions were good, but everything you've posed in both threads seem to have been a major contributor to the fact that this possibility we both say we want didn't happen.

This could have been a really interesting discussion about how to approach portraying a mythic version of non-Western cultures in a respectful way, but predictably, that discussion got usurped by people who want to debate the merits of respectful yet mythic portrayals of non-Western cultures...

It's been a while since I cracked open the book, but it just felt...off in a way that standard D&D doesn't. I'm not Asian, so I can't really point to a list of items that are badwrongawful, but when I compare it to Oriental Adventures to, say, Avatar: The Last Airbender, it's very noticeable how...

To respond to the OP's question, I think I'd be far less interested in an Oriental Adventures setting than, say, Wuxia Adventures. A random hodge-podge of vaguely Pan-Asian elements is far less interesting to me as a player than digging into a different genre of storytelling that alters or...

Aspects from FATE. Approaches from FATE: Accelerated Edition. Issue and Impulse from Primetime Adventures. I'll have to think about some more.

This seems like taking, "I don't like it, and this is why" way too personally. Edit: If you'd like to know my reasons for why I experience so many D&D settings this way, I'd be glad to elaborate, but arguing over matters of taste seems pointless to me.

Re: lack of imagination. I find that tends to be the case for me as well.

I don't do any of that. My campaign notes tend to be all of 10 pages long, tops, and this includes things like house rules, homebrew races, class tweaks, equipment, and so on. In situations where the homebrew setting is closer to standard D&D, the campaign notes can sometimes be a page long...

In general, I homebrew because I choose setting according to the types of stories I want to play with rather than picking a setting and trying to squeeze my stories into it. If I do pick a published setting, it's often not one created for D&D.

I gravitate to rogues and other skill-based classes because I like utility outside of combat, and I like not having to depend on magic to have something interesting to do. I like the versatility of rogues, which means I can play a variety of character concepts without altering the class or...

Luke, is that you?

Not a Marvel comics sort of person, but from my understanding of it from people I know who are, declining Marvel comics sales may have had something to do with turning paragons of freedom and justice into Nazis.