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In D&D, the cosmos is determined by the beliefs of those within it, so all positions justify themselves (if enough people adopt them). In a cosmos that operated on the ideology of "muscular neutrality," there'd be an existential crisis if there was too much good or too much evil, so the true...

Battle Master is so smooth, and at my age, I am so happy with a smooth BM.

I feel like "it depends on luck and choices!" is kind of a cop-out of an answer. Like, yes, of course, but luck is just statistics, so how many nat 1's or < 5's or < 10's need to happen to yeet a character from this mortal coil? And choices are just a question of genre - should the party be able...

It's still kind of wild to me that if your mount uses Disengage, neither you or it provoke OA's by RAW. Just, action-less (for the rider) OA-free movement, that's faster than most races at base. It's a huge mobility enhancement (and with Jump it gets even better).

I'm doing some close looking at mounted combat for a fighter build I'm working on, and I'm noticing some interesting rules interactions. I'm not sure how many of these are intended vs. just overlooked vs. maybe not intended but basically OK. I'd be interested in your take on how these might work...

Heck, an large and profitable subset of American media is basically just propaganda, conspiracy theories, and self-delusion. We live in a world where people are intensely susceptible to misinformation, and it takes active guard duty for an individual to sort it out (and even then nobody's 100%...

Not that this is the most important part of the conversation, but it's also possibly worth mentioning that sexism like this does cut a bit both ways. Women are depicted as basically human, but men? Men can be monstrous. Inherently evil. Bad guys. Since these creatures are all antagonists...

Why do you think there's some insincere protection going on here? I'm not protecting anyone, really, just bringing up the apparently-taboo concept of real-world context in light of it not being considered in the question I was responding to. Why don't you want to engage with that in good faith...

Heavily depends on the level. Getting 2nd level spells is not as powerful as getting 3rd level spells, for instance. And getting 5th level spells is another power jump. Feats are generally pegged to be relatively minor power bumps. A +2 to an ability score is great, but translates into a +1...

Of course they would be treated differently. It's a fundamentally different action. How could it be the same? These actions don't exist in some context-free vacuum. The current world isn't a gender-neutral place. It's a male-dominated place, and a woman's naked body isn't currently a neutral...

It would involve more word count dedicated to something, but I wish they would've used examples of what a tiefling could be. A tiefling could be an heir to a fallen empire where diabolical pacts and fiendish magic were common practice. A tiefling could be reviled for their fiendish heritage by...

It's a neat idea, but I'm not too interested in a fight that gets easier as it goes on. From a gameplay perspective, there's a point at which you're (almost literally!) beating a dead horse. Where victory is all but assured, but you have to grind through the critter's last few parts just to make...

It's quite a good system! Anything that liberates me from the grid, baby!

The counter-argument is that no one said this is a reflection of who he is as "as human being." No one is Literally Anubis. So, you're building a strawman. In truth, people are describing the man based on the things he's said and done. Why not publish history in a history book? If I'm reading...

I mean, that's what's happening, so there's no problem, I guess? Why, though? It seems like the central issue for you at least is that people are calling Gygax sexist, and this somehow means they have to know his heart and his soul to pass this judgment. So, of course, character witnesses...

This is not the case. Look, anyone who claims to know what was truly in Gary's heart or what his true beliefs are is just wrong (probably including Gary himself). Whether they think he's sexist or not, no one can read minds or is Literally Anubis*. What's been stated over and over and over...

None of your feelings actually contradict the facts of the situation: Gygax did sexist things and will be rightly judged to be sexist for doing those sexist things. Some folks seem to prefer it if that particular fact disappeared down the memory-hole, and THAT's what makes me want to take a...

There's something deeply asymmetrical in this statement. The author has to deal with the consequences for publishing the truth (which some folks don't want to hear), but there's no consequences for doing sexist things. That if you're loudly and proudly sexist, you get called a sexist when people...

It's not actually contrary, though. It's shifting the goalposts. "Gygax was a sexist" isn't about his moral character, it's about his actions and statements - his actual history. The actions he did, the things he wrote, and the impact they had on his game. "Gygax was a good dad to his...

I really hate that questions of sexism become deflected to questions of character. It's like the racist guy pointing out that his black friends love him. I don't know Gary's soul. I never met the man. I am not here to judge him as a human. We're all clever apes doing our best in a complicated...