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Which makes it pretty modern. Did they have dinosaur bones in glass cases? It is not about the concept of a museum, it is about the modern presentation of it.

Yeah, this is the sort of porting modern things into medieval setting that I really don't like. Assuming of course, that the setting isn't some sort of Shadowrun or Arcane style thing that is wholly and intentionally non-medieval. But then there probably would have been the security cameras or...

Whilst some of such strawgrognards might genuinely exist, I'm not sure such generalisations are helpful to conversation. Perhaps there are people who just reactively dislike any change, but I find that more often that not people's preferences are more nuanced than that.

Seems like a rather weird "pattern" to me. Whilst I am sure there are indeed people who don't want modern elements in their fantasy settings, want evil orcs and lethal combat, these are three completely separate issues. I for one have different opinion on all three of them. I am not sure it is...

I don't think D&D has coherent imagery, but that is pretty understandable given that it has no bespoke world; different worlds can and should have their own style. Of course this results the overall imagery that draws from these different worlds feeling disjointed when viewed together, but I'm...

Where are those from? (I haven't really gotten into 5.5, so I'm unfamiliar with some of the newer books.)

I have recently been lamenting how my go-to MMO, Final Fantasy XIV has utterly lost its visual coherence. People in plate armour run alongside with people wearing modern or cyberpunk clothes scrolling their smartphones. I don' think the issue is anachronism per se, it is about having coherent...

You jumped on my comment lambasting the car comparison, which was obviously "modern is better," effectively defending that comment. So if you did not agree with that comment, you might have wanted to express it more clearly.

I'm sure they have. And sometimes the revisions to games are indeed about "making them work better" in a sense that the game did not do what the designer wanted as well as it could. But often revisions are not really about "better" or "worse" rather about changes in what we want the game to do...

I am an art teacher, so I obviously am well aware of the importance of technique in art. But your view seem to be incredibly reductive. Yes, we have some materials and techniques artists in the past didn't. But does this mean we produce better art? It obviously doesn't. And I think it is...

I think it is far more apt comparison than cars. Like I said, we have more to compare to. But most of game design is ultimately about choices, what I want this game to do. In that sense it is more like art. As classically trained artist I obviously do not think renaissance was the peak of...

I think game design is at least part art. Sure, having larger backlog of design to compare to might make designing now easier than back then, but it is not as simple than newer is better. It's not like Monopoly is a better game than Chess even though it is centuries more modern design.

And that why modern art is considered universally better than the renaissance art and modern literature superior to Shakespeare. :unsure:

I'm not sure that if it is significantly better if racist tropes are applied to a culture rather than species. In fact, that's closer to the real life. And yeh, "these people are born evil" or equivalent is literally the stupidest and laziest way to show that the species tends to have certain...

I'm afraid we need to revoke your nerd card...

A species as class is of course super limiting, but I rather feel some sort of additional subclass-like structure might make sense at least for some species. Perhaps your background could work like a subclass, and then for more powerful species that "splat slot" would be consumed by the species...

The issue really is not whether the wings would work (they wouldn't) or whether there is some explanation for them being like this. The issue is that they look wrong and stupid. Like someone said, it looks like someone assembled a miniature incorrectly or like some AI error. Now why it looks...

Not literally, but it has the encounter building guidelines which basically amount to that. 🤷

True. I think cetaceans have near human level intelligence, the poor sods just don't have hands and live in water so they couldn't utilise fire either.

Perhaps, but "sapience" and "sentience" literally mean different things. If you want to differentiate the sort of intelligence humans have from that of most other animals, sentience is not the word for it, sapience is. Squirrels are sentient, as in having phenomenal sensory experiences. They are...