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The Tasha’s artificer was a really great picture. I like it a lot.

The poster has been criticized for several assertions in his post, but I need to specifically call this out. Suggesting that the “Revenge of the Nerds” films provide evidence that nerds are persecuted is equivalent to arguing that “Birth of the Nation” demonstrates that White Southerners were...

There is only one true movie Batman, and his name is Adam West. Why is it that things from your youth are the standard, despite the fact they are themselves remakes?

I recognize that this isn’t your position. Sex-positive feminism exists. However, it is a pretty big leap from “women should not be shamed or policed based on what they choose to wear” to “pictures in the PHB should include women in chainmail bikinis”. The way I see sex-positive feminism...

And of course, make it explicit that this is one of the things Session Zero is meant to address.

And yet it exists. It existed before 5e, it existed before 3e. Saying that the use of passive voice in one chapter of the PHB is what caused it is the illogical bit.

Gamers: Dorkness Rising! also pre-5e) parodied this with a player who played an Elf Monk in a human-only campaign set in Western Europe.

Players creating characters independent of the setting is such a common trope that it is lampooned in several webcomics that predate 5e. Goblins! makes fun of it in its first arc, when 3 of the PCs for the campaign are Drizz’t clones. Order of the Stick has an evil wizard that’s basically...

Fighter. He’s the only one in melee, so dropping him opens up : Move then Misty Step (or Move Misty Step Move) which isn’t available if you need to Misty Step to avoid an attack of opportunity. Being able to Misty Step during your move increases the odds that you can place yourself in a...

“I’m not the problem, it’s my ungrateful players” has a long and storied history. Particularly with a hearty side of “kids these days!”

True, but since spy stories can easily be done in the noir style, he’s a more accessible reference than Alicia Huberman from Notorious.

If I tell the players that I want to run a pirate adventure, I may get Luffy from One Piece, Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean, and Cap’n Flint from Black Sails. If I tell the players I’m running a spy adventure, I may get Clover from Totally Spies!, James Bond, Philip Marlowe and...

Agreed. At least some of the cases that I’ve seen where the characters did not match the DM’s concept were because the DM was too stingy with information, not too free. Like the case where the DM told us it would be an exploration-based campaign, but forgot to mention we were part of a...

Good point about subclasses. If the core setting nixes classes, how detailed do you get with respect to subclasses? Can a player play an Eldritch Knight? An Arcane trickster? Are there special rules for defiling if you’re not a full caster? What about a divine soul sorcerer? It’s an arcane...

That explanation just doesn’t work with creatures that each live 700 years.

I can't imagine why having "fatal" and "deadly" mean different things would cause casual players to bounce off the system.

There aren't fewer of these weird arguments. You either get pretty broad language that requires DM interpretation, or you get specific language, that also requires DM interpretation. Specific example: in PF2, a Champion of the goddess, the Redeemer Queen, cannot be a Redeemer Champion. Why...

Riiiiiight…….”modern” D&D. It’s not like in the Forgotten Realms there isn’t a high level NPC every 5’. It’s not like 2nd and 3rd edition adventures statted up every NPC you interacted with. It’s not like 2nd ed required druids to defeat a higher level druid in combat to level up. No, the...

But what does that actually mean? Let’s go back to the right-up of dwarves in the 2014 5th edition PHB. Its description of dwarves provides several hooks for DMs to create dwarven societies and for players to create dwarven characters. Religious; Tradition-bound; Warriors; Artisans and...

What does that even mean, practically speaking? Will Tolkien fanboys come and prevent me from playing Hans and Volomyra? Given the massive influx of new players with more diverse cultural touchstones, are there even enoughTolkien fanboys to make a difference?