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These changes are fantastic, and I’ll definitely be using these over the official sheets! Thanks so much for doing them.

Yeah, I’ve read the whole thread, and that line leapt out at me. If your players (and even worse, your wife) flat out state that they don’t care about your fun, there’s not a game in the world that is going to solve things.

‘1’ as well. I buy their game books because they make game books I want to buy. They’d have to do something extremely egregious to make we want to avoid them (more so than standard corporate stuff). On the flip side, I know there are a lot of smaller publishers that are better in a lot of...

Duelling definitely feels reliable! Other than the fact you can still roll a 1 :). As to why not make this a flat bonus, I’m obviously not privy to their thought process, but personally, I’d hazard it’s down to: 1) Duelling already exists. Adding another style that basically duplicates it...

Well the gripe about complexity was more about the comments complaining about ‘dumb fighters’. This style actually isn’t super simple..a flat bonus like Duelling or Defence, as you say, would be simpler. I’m more arguing that the lack of mathematical oomph of this is balanced by the feel of...

Yeah, very much this. I’ll admit it may not be as mathematically advantageous as some options, but I think it’s very much balanced by its reliability. It’s balanced by the feel, which I know is probably anathema to the people who enjoy minute white board analysis. Big numbers don’t always...

This probably says more about me as a player than it does about the style, but I don’t mind this at all. There’s nothing I hate more than seeing 1s come up on a damage die. Rolling double 1s, and being able to say that the 2 is now a 6, would feel awesome at the table. But like I said, that’s...

Wow, I’m the complete opposite here. World building and character development are important, but unless the are in service to a good story, what’s the point? Tell me a good story, and I’ll overlook some world building flaws. Build a world without a good story, and I’ll wonder what the point...

This is pretty much where I’m sitting. I have no problem with nuance and morally grey shows. I’m also fine with more straightforward space opera fare. But I do want them to be well written, and, well, good. The Acolyte, for the most part, wasn’t. Maybe it could have been, if they hadn’t...

Don't worry, if Star Wars stays true to form, in 10 years time we'll have a library's worth of wookiepedia articles telling us every little excruciating detail about any witch who was on screen for more than a second. Names, backstories, and how they're all somehow tied to a Skywalker....:)

Also, don't forget that while she looks like a chaos deity now, she was a product of her time. Compared to most other Babylonian gods at the time, she was pretty average. Otherwise she wouldn't have been comfortable being so openly chaotic in public! :)

Does it matter whether or not he created Tiamat specifically to attack women, or simply found it a convenient way to attack women after the fact?!? Are we down to splitting hairs so fine that the defender's are down to saying "Ok, he was sexist, here, and here, and maybe there. But you can't...

Again, no one is trying to stitch a scarlet letter to his corpse. We’re simply pushing back on the idea that “he wasn’t that bad…it was complicated…everyone was sexist…I’m sure he loved puppies…if he lived another 20 years, surely he would have changed…”. When pushed to include women, he...

It’s been said here before, but the whole “Gary was sexist” thing isn’t meant to besmirch him, drag his memory through the mud, or rewrite history. It’s simply to push back on the people denying what he flat out wrote himself. He didn’t deny being sexist, he wore it like a badge of honour. I...

Actually, it seemed to be supposition based on actual direct quotes leading up to when he died. We obviously don't know what he would have thought about 4e or 5e. But since it seems pretty clear he was consistent in his views throughout his life, up until his death (and he was active here...

Well, to be fair, it’s been a long time since I’ve looked at the 1e DMG. :). That does mitigate it somewhat. I still question the need for a specialized sub-table though…

Random tables can be a godsend for GM inspiration. But we’re not talking a random table of city folk they might meet, of which harlot is one entry. It’s an entire random table of different names for sex workers. Maybe it’s my limited imagination, but I just can’t see a scenario where that...

Sesame Street too :).

Let’s not blow this out of proportion. No one took a highlighter and called out every instance of sexism. It was a brief content warning in the introduction. A content warning. Practically boilerplate at this point when dealing with older bits of history. Movies have them. TV shows have...

Is there some magical “get out of being called sexist free” card for being old? It may be harder for old people to learn new tricks, but it’s not impossible. Lots of them have done so.