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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9312537" data-attributes="member: 18">Why not?He's doing a joke apology for something he wrote at 22 (he's obviously not a comedian but not many people are). He should have probably have lead with that he was 22, because it's actually quite an impressive work for a 22-year-old, despite being absolutely awful in a lot of ways and much more forgivable as such - and the second video shows he does actually understand most of the problems, though I don't think he really gets that he was writing a book that was mostly going to be used by people a lot younger than that, whose ability to assess "overpowered or not" was... limited... and the whole "roleplaying disadvantages" thing was always particularly bollocks with that particular book, because there weren't any real roleplaying disadvantages to being, say, a Bladesinger. The whole "thou must protect elfs!" thing is undermined by the same paragraph saying "Yo but you get to decide whether that's the case, not the DM" (ironically though the mechanical disadvantages, despite him acting like there were none, do come close to balancing it - but only if you have a DM who is quite thrifty or random with magic items).Re: LGBT and Tieflings, not only is there the "any or none" bit, but do you not see how a group of people whose sexuality was still being literally demonized (I do mean literally) on a routine basis in the US and much of Europe at that time might find some connection with beings who are seen as inherently tainted by evil, but aren't really?</blockquote>

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