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This is pretty boilerplate stuff for a social media website. If you post something on Reddit, Reddit owns it.

Let me rephrase that; As critics, we need to ask why the writers chose to show only the gods creating white people. Remember the Upton Sinclair quote, often misattributed to Orwell; "All art is propaganda."

As a DM I find myself calling for dexterity (medicine) checks with some regularity, representing surgery. In my mind medicine (wisdom) is for diagnosis and player characters are rarely in a situation where they diagnose a disease but they do frequently find themselves in situations where they...

How very double plus good. No, it shouldn't be "changed". It should be acknowledged and improved upon. Shoving it under the rug does favors for nobody; it certainly doesn't make me as a brown-skinned fantasy fan suddenly feel more attached to Dragonlance.

And of course, the gods saw that none of those people were fit to save the world.

Then we need to ask as critics why did the gods make only white people? And rather than handwaving it and saying "they made black people too, they were just tucked offscreen this whole time" we should actually address it.

Yes, I'm familiar with Cheddar man. Humans migrate when given reason to. Through archaeology and paleontology, we can piece together the reasons that humans have migrated here on Earth. The problem is barely any fantasy works ever bother to do the same, to say "The Sungadungan People came to...

So, look. I'm mixed race, live in NYC, will fight to the death to defend actual diversity and multiculturalism among living, flesh and blood humans. The multiculturalism that you and I both know is contingent on our attachment to globalized colonial empires; without those, you shouldn't expect...

From what has been published about 16th century Calimshan, it seems only Calimport and maybe one or two other cities are in mortal hands (and also now bastions of high technology) and the Genies rule the wastes with some nomadic people caught between them. In my interpretation, paladins are...

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The updated lore for Calimshan has genies as warlords ruling the deserts. Think of these paladins kind of like dragon sorcerors' templars

By contrast, the purple dragon knight appeared in the Forgotten Realms setting book back in 2015 as a subclass, but they provided the name banneret as an alternative name for alternative settings. Now they've chosen that to be the name for the subclass by default. At the very least, they could...

I remember this part of Old Yeller

Tolkien was the world's most well-showered crustpunk anarchist so in a weird way this makes sense, but it's still really weird to modern political sensibilities. https://firstthings.com/anarcho-monarchism/

Aren't the bagginses landed gentry who don't actually work and make rental income from their lands, which is why they can take all the time off to adventure with dwarves and wizards? Frodo and Bilbo are not common, they're extremely bourgeois. Tolkien may see an independently wealthy landowner...

For this reason I prefer "I'm not gonna sugarcoat it" to "not gonna lie"

I see we were probably talking past each other. Anyone with working eyes and a functional knowledge of the English language who has had the misfortune to read the dragonlance books would be offended by the kender, so they should be ejected from the canon for that reason. Rather than being...

Genies are elemental beings. Druidic magic comes at least partially from the elemental planes. These paladins are far more druidic/primal than arcane, and no more lore breaking than an oath of the ancients.

If bodybuilders with dwarfism start saying that halflings with 20 strengths are offensive to them, we should listen. Until then, it's a fantasy scenario. Native Americans having their culture stolen from them and commodified, and mixed race people being fetishized, are both real, extant...