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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 3008510" data-attributes="member: 4134">I have to say one thing to those who tell others "this game isn't for you, move on".I have to say to them: This game isn't for you, move on.If there's one thing typical to D&D, it's everything. D&D isn't about robots. It's about the possibility of robots if only you want to. D&D isn't about sci-fi, psionics, whatever. It's about the possibility of those things, if you want them in your game. That's wha D&D doesn't come with a game world hard-wired into the system, like so many other role playing games. It's meant to be played in the world that you want.Now, I give you that I don't want soulbots (warforged) in my game. I don't want magical trains (Thunderrail). So I don't use the Eberron world. But that doesn't mean that D&D isn't for me just because I don't like Eberron. And it doesn't mean that Eberron isn't D&D, either. It doesn't mean that you must use robots in D&D for it to be D&D. It means you can.The other thing, since we seem to make a big large pyre to burn all the elf fanboys on: Yes, there are people who like elves more than everything else in D&D. They think they're living gods or something and are insufferable. But there are also people who like dwarves more like everything else, and those dwarf fanboys are just as insufferable. And there are elf fans - and dwarf fans - who are perfectly fine chaps.Now, both elves and dwarves - the races themselves, as presented in D&D - have both good and bad sides. Both have been depicted favourably and disfavourably in novels and rulebooks and whatever. Both were, or are, too powerful at one point of the game or the other.The only really bad thing is the guys flaunting their hatred of one race - and I only really saw the witch hunt for elves around here, though I might have overlooked the dwarf-persecutions - citing only the bad aspects of the race they hate and only the good aspects of other races. The others realize, or are prepared to realize, that all the races can be good or bad, and that it's the people, not the race itself, that gives them the bad image.</blockquote>

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