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Oh yeah. I also banned wizard and cleric and have never been happier!

The best thing I ever did for myself as a writer/DM was to ban all Tolkeinesque ancestries (other than human).

I think this is it right here. I've been DMing for about 20 years now, and in my experience and observation, most campaign settings are only that. They are merely bash-kits of narrative context---not the narrative itself. This can lead to situations where players bring the wrong character to...

I play RPGs partially to escape the homogeneity of RL, so I think that diversity in party composition is desirable. But to make this work, it requires either a certain level of narrative hands-off-ness or otherwise strong narrative cohesion. Put another way, my question is mostly a matter of...

Well I mean yeah. Not that I ever played the subclass (I also happen not to remember most of it either), but it's like, if it's not broken don't fix it. But it's also like, they have to republish it, so they have to "fix it." But I am genuinely ignorant as to what needs fixing. And so far I...

My sense of the conversation thus far has been that, even if you dislike the drinking mechanics,, removing drunken from the title was not the move and in fact made the situation worse. Having drunken in the name and divorcing it from the mechanics of intoxication would, in my opinion, be the...

No, but it helps, especially in the face of the shared concern of orientalism writ large.

This is extremely good news! I loved Islands of Sina Una (I worked in the Philippines very briefly), and I know that team was uncompromizing in expressing their values and resisting harmful steriotypes.

I was trying to explain why it felt bad to me. And to be fair, what you said about alcohol not being a colonizing weapon in this context, to my understanding, is correct. But I am very sensitive to that matter of drugs as a colonizing device, and drug addiction (opium) DOES play a colonizing...

Too bad the development of Sigil is why BG3 doesn't have a Game Master Mode T_T

I fear you have misunderstood my point, or perhaps my point was not well expressed. It is one thing for the Chinese-made martial arts movies to emphasize the themes of alcohol use. It is another thing for WotC, an American company based on the West Coast, to emphasize the themes of alcohol use...

Exactly! The problem is adding and requiring an intoxicating drink. The RL fighting style is not about Intoxication. Someone who focuses on ecstatic meditation and practices a combat style that mimics the fluidity of a drunken person is not itself problematic. It can even be educational! But...

Yeah so, in my view, the drunken master is kind of a racist trope, not the least reason being for the colonistic legacy of weaponized alcohol addiction. And l agree with you about the pains of alcoholism on family systems: alcoholism can destroy lives, no matter the context. But the martial arts...

This looks like a lot of fun! I like that the OSR is now innovating instead of simply making retroclones, and Scalemail sounds like it has a high Charm stat! I supported Shadowdark and was much pleased; I'm looking forward to supporting this RPG too!

If they kept the diversity, I'm all in

Wouldn't know, don't read comics.

This would be cool to me if they advanced the setting 20 years or something. Otherwise it's revisionism, which they have mostly avoided thus far.

But we know what sky coaches look like and they don't look like dirigibles

I'm familiar with this concept, and I basically agree with you. That said, I'm surprised that the art director included this new, hypothetical, undisclosed, fairly common yet obscure technology which looks like an "airship" instead of using the iconic Eberron airship. Something seems off about...

Yes, precisely so. I very much worry that the change in art is an indication of a change in content and storyline. Art noveau and deco have a place in Eberron, and I never contested that.