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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9506813" data-attributes="member: 6790260">When I've seen my preferences crapped on over and over and over and over and over by people who think it's cool to say dragonborn are just stupid and no one could ever possibly like them unless they're a dirty filthy powergamer (despite the fact that dragonborn in 5.0 were the weakest PHB race...)--to the point that EVEN THE DESIGNERS THEMSELVES got in on the &quot;let's make fun of people for liking dragonborn&quot; train*...Yeah. I think I have a very good reason to see hostility. Because it's demonstrably there.*I don't care if it was tongue-in-cheek. If we had people making tongue-in-cheek extended &quot;jokes&quot; of crapping on nostalgia about early editions, there would be riots in the proverbial streets.I tend to assume that when someone tells me they deserve absolute authority and zero accountability beyond me dropping the nuclear option, something is amiss. Particularly when the very same people then get up in arms about the folks who actually do drop the nuclear option and tell them they were unjustified for doing so! We had a thread just last month about that. Ask pemerton about it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9506813, member: 6790260"] When I've seen my preferences crapped on over and over and over and over and over by people who think it's cool to say dragonborn are just stupid and no one could ever possibly like them unless they're a dirty filthy powergamer (despite the fact that dragonborn in 5.0 were the [I]weakest PHB race...[/I])--to the point that EVEN THE DESIGNERS THEMSELVES got in on the "let's make fun of people for liking dragonborn" train*... Yeah. I think I have a very good reason to see hostility. Because it's demonstrably [I]there[/I]. *I don't care if it was tongue-in-cheek. If we had people making tongue-in-cheek extended "jokes" of crapping on nostalgia about early editions, [I]there would be riots in the proverbial streets[/I]. I tend to assume that when someone tells me they deserve absolute authority and zero accountability beyond me dropping the nuclear option, something is amiss. [I]Particularly[/I] when the very same people then get up in arms about the folks who actually do drop the nuclear option and tell them they were unjustified for doing so! We had a thread just last month about that. Ask pemerton about it. [/QUOTE]

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