Brouhahas of the past

[rounser]

Dragon 300's vileness is by far not the first teacup storm to hit the D&D online community, and I was thinking of whether a "greatest hits and memories" of such much ados about not much would provide a little perspective.

Ones that spring to mind:

Pronouns of more than one gender ending up in the core books.
Concerns and disagreements about the implementation of rangers.

Any other classics?

 

[LostSoul]

Snoweel's Women & STR mods.

 

[Dinkeldog]

So long as we just stick to listing the topics and not discussing them...or at least getting into heated arguments, but really if you want to re-open the discussion, opening another thread would be better than the complete chaos you'd be unleashing here.

Half-orcs got the shaft.
Clerics are overpowered

 

[rounser]

So long as we just stick to listing the topics and not discussing them...or at least getting into heated arguments, but really if you want to re-open the discussion, opening another thread would be better than the complete chaos you'd be unleashing here.

No, I don't want to re-open discussion. You're ascribing ulterior motives to me that aren't there. I think this thread was bound for obscurity until you bumped it, too, although I can see your concerns.

 

[the Jester]

Unearthed Arcana.
2nd Edition.
Players' Option.
3rd Edition.

 

[Dinkeldog]

No, I don't want to re-open discussion. You're ascribing ulterior motives to me that aren't there. I think this thread was bound for obscurity until you bumped it, too, although I can see your concerns.

Rounser, you're ascribing ulterior motives to me, now. I had no concerns that you were trying to re-open old wounds. I just wanted to make sure no one else decided to re-open those discussions.

 

[maddman75]

How can we forget the 'can an elven paladin kill an orc baby' debates. For me its sort of represetnative of the Great Alignment Wars.

 

[Ravellion]

The pantheon

 

[Henry]

Lest I dare broach these words of evil I now speak:

Greyhawk Old vs. New
WotC Management Issues
Prices of RPG products
Alignment and its place in D&D

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The funny part is, some of these issues you can predict just looking at them (The Greyhawk thing is one - this rift had begun as early as 15 years ago) - but some get quite heated quite by surprise! (such as the viability of Orcs and Rangers)

 

[Ravellion]

The pantheon

Heh, even worse: The people who didn't get the idea of the pantheon, and started to spawn their opinion of them in a seperate thread (of course, this was when the Pantheon didn't have its own thread yet)

Rav