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Should look like? Yuck. Gross. Seriously.

It does not. There is no equivalent of the Fear mechanic in 5E, and that's the very mechanic being referenced.

So what you're saying is that it's worth considering, because it can be a bad idea to have such mechanics? Thus the discussion that is being had here?

Isn't this rather the point? If the game has a certain intent it shouldn't have mechanics that incentivize not-that-intent?

Incorrect. The discussion was about a mechanical disadvantage to taking actions instituted by the rules, and the potential for unintended consequences. Your claim that it will never happen without strict intent is, of course, just white room theorizing. So you clearly have no issue with such...

It's already been explained. The amount of pushback against raising a potential issue in a playtest is getting silly.

Indeed. It is a common cognitive bias to believe that your preferences are representative or widespread.

Perhaps consider the possibility that your assumptions - which is all they are - about how likely it is to occur are simply wrong. Ignoring a potential issue because you assume it won't come up is a terrible way to do game design.

Speaking for myself, I believe I understand what you're saying, and I agree with it.

The idea that the "veteran gamer" demographic is so homogenous that this statement can even make sense is very silly. I've been gaming for 37 years and based on your posts I know our tastes are very different. WotC has produced many things for "my demographic" in the recent past, from my...

Can I ask why you wouldn't just ask around the table what each player got and write them down, and set the initiative order from that?

Distinction without a difference. People are challenging the reasons you have provided for your opinions. Opinions themselves aren't sacrosanct, and the justifications put forth for them are even less so. You put your opinion and your justifications for it on a public discussion forum. People...

"Sorry, the enemies are on to your tricks. They're ready for that now. You'll have to try something different." It's all in the framing. If you choose to imagine something in a way that makes it incoherent, of course it's going to seem incoherent. But to me, anyone who accepts the level of...

Not sure that makes a difference when it's "the picture shouldn't be this" rather than "I don't like it."

No one has made fun of you. Challenging your claims is not making fun of you.

Tangentially related, as a beglassessed person I always note when an actor is wearing fake glasses in a show or movie. You can tell from the way they reflect light. Fake ones are flat so as not to interfere with the actor's vision, so they reflect light like a pane of glass.

Why would that be preferable to having other peoples' previous-unserved preferences reflected instead, given that your preferences were already served before? The art doesn't actually change the game at the table. Why wouldn't you WANT other people have a turn at having their preferences reflected?

Most people also don't go exploring dungeons where they know goblins likely lurk, so IRL is irrelevant.

# Yes! And traffic lights in the rain.

Absolutely. I don't recognize these artists either, because they're not to my taste and I don't spend any time at all learning about them. But if I were to take that to mean that the artists don't actually have a recognizable style - rather than me just not being able to recognize it - I would...