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The great thing about everything in this thread from AI techbros is that everything their precious AI spits out is just as soulless as they are.

It probably doesn't bother you if non-white people are portrayed as inferior to white men, innately-evil savages, or mooches and criminals who get slaughtered for your edgelord boner. Or if women in any position of power or authority aren't constantly portrayed as evil, stupid bitches. Or if an...

By which you mean not fetishizing the victimization of people who aren't straight white men, a demographic empowered in their own bigotry and pandering to by games media by Trump's election victory and the release of Baldur's Gate 3—a game that writes its sole black party member as inferior to a...

Except that's not true at all, and drives home again that the entire idea of the thread is pointless: the sort of person who doesn't even read any of the posts before instinctively dismissing and belittling differing opinions, because they don't actually care what other people think.

The fifth post in this thread. I'll note too that "obviously you haven't even played it!" is another perfect example of lazy dismissal of others' opinions.

So I'm going to point out that seven people thumbs-up'd this post before I reply to it. Seven people. Part of the reason I decided to not bother continuing with this was, to be frank, there's a very real tendency for 2024 fans to be dismissive towards people who criticize the revised rules...

Gonna take a break from these, if not halt them altogether. 'Cause honestly, it's not like it matters. The revised rules have had a divided reception, and people who dislike the 2024 changes to stuff are already well aware of how changes to class features and game mechanics can negatively...

It's less that the floor is higher and more than the Right Choices require much less investment. This is also coupled with many instances where a nerfed formerly-strong option has another choice that's just as strong if not stronger. Compared to 2014, a sword-and-board Fighter using a Sap or...

General rules always apply unless there is a specific rule that says differently for that circumstance. Here, there is none. That's terrible DM advice, by the way—not just because it encourages players to invent favourable interpretations, but it also makes excuses for issues in the writing of...

When you cast a spell from an item, it is always cast at its regular level unless specified otherwise. Or it's just a poor design choice that makes an Artificer's strength highly dependent on whether or not their subclass gets a strong 3rd-level spell.

The Cleric Hello God, are you listening? It's me, I need more spellcasting Foreword The Cleric is a class that's often type-cast into the role of healer. Many games have moved away from the necessity of a heal-bot party member, and 2014 5e provided many options for Clerics that varied between...

The Bard What do you get for the man who has everything? Foreword The Bard's always held a bit of a contentious spot in 5e. Some adore it for its versatility, others feel it is able to do too much and infringes on other classes' niches, especially with abundant skill benefits, the ability to...

I'm in a group that lets players choose 2014 or 2024 content (with most non-class content using the changed 2024 versions). There have been a lot of instances where I've wanted to make a character only to discover that some change to a 2024 feat or spell sidelines the build I wanted to make, or...

That's likely the idea...but then Stealth could simply be one of their class skills. It makes sense for a Barbarian hunter to stalk their prey silently. Other class skill lists were tweaked, so it's not an unreasonable addition. It creates the disconnection when Stealth is not something their...

We'll get to Monk, but I'm going to be frank: I've played several Monks in 2014 5e and never felt like they were sub-par. I've never been in a group where a Monk player seemed or felt like they were contributing less to the group—with the exception of rare sort who failed to Stunning Strike on...

The Barbarian Tremble in fear of the bitter cold and the almighty toppling wolf Foreword For many of these classes, we will need to establish context for the class—perceptions of it, how it fared in the original game, or external factors that affect the class. For the Barbarian, we need to...

Yeah, we're not going to bother with this anymore. Anyone who's been burned by the 2024 changes knows how much it screws with the characters and classes they enjoy, and anyone who's pandered to by these changes is an jackass who doesn't care about anyone else playing the game.

It's good that the worldbuilding of the new release reduces warforged to being mere objects, if they themselves are incapable of altering their own appearance. Rather than the lore of Eberron emphasizing warforged as beings finding their way in the wake of the Last War, the focus is instead...

Yet another take on the Ranger that fixates entirely on combat-focused features.

Which of course means that if the changes to the Artificer negatively impact the play experience of anyone but you, they can just go bleep themselves, you and people who agree with you are the only people who matter. We'll just keep watching 5e spaces become progressively less populated by...