D&D General D&D: Literally Don't Understand This

[Lakesidefantasy]

And, maybe consider that what you are saying, in a broader context, may have negative impacts on others, even if that's not your conscious intent.

Being part of a community - or perhaps more properly, being a good citizen of a community - should include having some empathy for members of the community. Honestly having empathy will usually save you from such issues, because it leads to self-editing.

Even if there's shoes and hotplates and all... isn't the bulk of the content really pretty standard and traditional? For every Radiant Citadel, aren't there also a Yawning Portal AND an
And, maybe consider that what you are saying, in a broader context, may have negative impacts on others, even if that's not your conscious intent.

Being part of a community - or perhaps more properly, being a good citizen of a community - should include having some empathy for members of the community. Honestly having empathy will usually save you from such issues, because it leads to self-editing.

Even if there's shoes and hotplates and all... isn't the bulk of the content really pretty standard and traditional? For every Radiant Citadel, aren't there also a Yawning Portal AND an Infinite Staircase? Is it really necessary that everything meet your preferences? If not... do the shoes really merit comment?

The internet makes it so we can always voice our opinion on every little thing. It does not give us the wisdom to know when we should voice our opinion.
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And when is that?

I'm 30 posts behind but I can see there's a [CENSORED]storm ahead.

This thread has had many distractions. Bedir than made a comment and now a lot of us have latched onto that. Erroneously in my opinion but we're beyond that now.

However, you Umbran, a moderator, have been trying to make this discussion about horrible people doing horrible things almost from the beginning. Shame on you.

This thread, like Dungeons and Dragons, has been commandeered as a battlefield, and both have come to an end.[/QUOTE]

 

[Tonguez]

First dinosaur skeleton was put on public display in 1868. Use of glass reaches ancient times.

the first display of dinosaur bones goes back to ancient times however - they just didnt know they were dinosaurs. For instance the Shoulder Blade of Pelops (a demigod) was once displayed in the Temple of Artemis in Greece until it disappeared in AD150. The Shoulder Blade of Pelops is believed to have been a Mammoth tusk.

Similarly, the Black Bones of Set were uncovered in Egypt and placed in the Temple of Set - also believed to be Fossils.

Lots of legendary "battlegrounds of gods and giants" around the world have yielded up lots of fossils

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[BrokenTwin]

Avatar the Last Airbender is definitely an influence on MANY of the current iteration of professional game designers, but I have absolutely no idea what the fantasy touchstone for the new generation of players is.

 

[Not a Decepticon]

No, but that is nevertheless relatively modern period, not medieval one.

Lumping XIX Century into one bag with XXI one is fundamentally silly.

So again, pretty recently.

You seem to have the mindset that anything pre WWII or so, is "olden times" and can just be lumped together and have it make sense.

No, my mindset is that you cannot do the opposite and lump everything after vaguelly-defined "dark ages" (which somehow always encapsullate time from ancient rome up to XVII Century all put together like a big anachronsitic puzzle) into "modern times".

We are not talking existence of materials. We are talking about the concept of museum displaying dinosaur bones and other artefacts behind class panes. That is pretty modern, it conjures images of modern museum. (Also large clear glass panes are relatively recent technology. Definitely not ancient or medieval.)

Well the images it conjures are incorrect, it's just based on layman assumptions and not facts since all these things are older than modern world.

You probably think that as this is made out of stone, wood and leather, all which existed in palaeolithic era, this is a believable depiction of palaeolithic people rather than a joke referencing modern world.

Strawman argument.

What line? I don't understand you. They were answering a question of the player, so either there were security cameras or not.

And blaming it on the adventure for making a comment that put them out off the game.

Other is to not put silly things into D&D.

Ok, so no Beholders, no Mind Flayers, no Owlbears, no Intellect Devourers, no Rust Monsters, no Kobolds, no Goblins, no Hobgoblins, no Bugbears, no Tasha's Highteous Laughter, no Tenser's Transformation, no Tenser's Floating Disc, no Melf the Elf, no Warduke, no Bigby's hand spells....at this point are you even playing D&D?

 

[Not a Decepticon]

Avatar the Last Airbender is definitely an influence on MANY of the current iteration of professional game designers, but I have absolutely no idea what the fantasy touchstone for the new generation of players is.

Skyrim

 

[Micah Sweet]

It's a reminder that D&D never took itself too seriously and that we shouldn't take it too seriously either.

It's a reminder that D&D sometimes doesn't take itself seriously. Do I need to provide an example of when it does?

 

[Remathilis]

I do think it would be a great experiment to build a "D&D as you remember it" setting that is as down to earth as possible, where magic is rare and scary, and anything wacky stands out as new and dangerous.

It wouldn't be Mystara, that's for sure. Not with stuff like this.

 

[BrokenTwin]

Skyrim

Is anybody under 30 playing Skyrim? I would be shocked if that's the fantasy touchstone of the new generation of gamers. I'd expect something more like, Genshin Impact or the Demon Hunters anime.

 

[Necropolitan]

It wouldn't be Mystara, that's for sure. Not with stuff like this.

Those are specifically noted to be rare lost technology that can't be reproduced.

 

[Chaltab]

A high-security prison in the Forgotten Realms not having areas permanently enchanted with clairvoyance or arcane eye would be really improbable. That's not magitech, that's just the Forgotten Realms.

True, but that's a bit different than what we would call a 'security camera'.

For one thing it's probably harder to spot.