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I thought I made well the point that your apologist propaganda is neither welcome nor relevent. But clearly I didn't. Nobody doubts that the greatest repositories of knowledge existed in the geographical area known as the cradle of civilisation. That such an area was relatively recently...

Oh no you di'n't!

Do you lead your players to believe they know everything about how magic works in the setting? That the PHB is the entirety of how magic works in the world?

Me too. This obsession with NPCs following the same rules as PCs is another symptom of the same mindset that causes poor DMs to try to make their setting (and they always go on about how detailed it is) the star of the show, rather than the PCs. I used to be married to my homebrew and couldn't...

What's stopping your 'me too!' PCs from clutching at this restriction as a sign of unfairness though? Players should understand that since fate favours them (adventures - and indeed life - is designed for them to win) then the DM should be within his rights to restrict NPC-only character...

Or alternatively, you could give people a bit of credit. We really do underestimate others to our own detriment. Personally, when I read something someone's written that looks like pure idiocy (especially when they have a good command of spelling, punctuation and grammar - it's an indicator...

Aah nostalgia... I still remember you sharing how you got your username. Most one-sided deathmatch ever, right?

My bad. I should have explicitly stated that I am talking about character creation rules.

Obviously my milage does vary - in my experience (and yes I'm aware it is merely my perception of my experience) popular media tells us that people of different cultures are exactly the same as us, only with different clothes and food. Which, for many impressionable and sheltered white youths...

Fairness?!? So do you think the PCs should have to face encounters where in almost every case the odds of survival are less than 50%? Because that's what the vast majority of NPCs in the gameworld have to deal with. The players get more than their share of 'fairness' - they have a DM...

So.. you do want to discuss Points of Light but you don't want to discuss civilisational downfall? Do you understand that the downfall of civilisation is a central theme in the PoL setting? Because if not I wonder why you raised the issue in the first place.

I don't think they should. I read somewhere (a designer's blog maybe?) that forcing NPCs to follow the same rules as PCs was an element of 3e that's been scrapped for the new edition. I think it's a great idea. PCs need to be balanced against each other for the entirety of the campaign (in...

If multi-ethnic (as well as multiracial - dwarves and halflings and stuff) socieites are what people want then there's an easy shoehorn in the PoL setting - the old empire of Nerath may have been super-cosmopolitan and now the points of light contain humans of many different colours. Though I...

Amazing huh? You would do well to investigate the ironic humour school of derision. Of equal use would be for you to discover why it seems that people continue to take you out of context. It's quite possible that you are revealing a lot more of your attitudes than you realise. In addition is...

All this fits just fine into the PoL. It just means that the knowledge of and trust in all these elements is far less certain. Example - the king of a nation might claim all the land within certain natural (or otherwise) boundaries. His arbitrary borders may even remain undisputed by any...

How is this any more different under the default PoL setting than it was under 3e?

Dungeon has updates - the new adventure's up as well as Dungeoncraft.

Not at all. Having limited interaction with people of differing cultures you would have been more likely to grow up in the belief that the only differences between cultural groups are the clothes we wear and the food we eat - harmless and banal differences to be sure.

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I feel you dawg. I'm still pissed my Drow ranger couldn't be white.