Favorite Tired ENWorld/D&D Argument?

[Gez]

Apostrophes for plural must die.

AoOs, not AoO's. PCs, not PC's. AoO's what ? AoO's AoE ? It's the threatened cases.

No, really, " 's " is either the contracted form of is, was, or has; or the genitive possession mark. It is never, never, never, never, never, never, never (one more time) never a plural. Never.

Hmm, so it's not D&D related. So what ? I see it all the times on D&D-related boards.

 

[jdavis]

I's think's you's might's be's on's to's something's there's.

Luckily my thick hide protects me from punctuation errors. It gives me a real advantage during Dermal warfare. Thick skin rules! 's's's's

 

[haiiro]

You have to possess a pretty thick skin to hang in there and get past your initiatial hundred or so posts.

That depends what you do with your first hundred posts, and how long you lurked and poked around before posting in the first place. I don't think everyone considers what kind of first impression they're going to make on the boards, and coming out of the gate in fight mode seems like a good example of that. By and large, I've found this community to be very welcoming to newcomers -- which is one of the things I like about it.

Heck, I posted twice in my first 12 months as a member -- how's that for cautious lurking.

 

[the Jester]

As of today I am officially sick of the following terms:

...knickers....

How can you be sick of knickers??

 

[Azlan]

Apostrophes for plural must die.

AoOs, not AoO's. PCs, not PC's. AoO's what ? AoO's AoE ? It's the threatened cases.

No, really, " 's " is either the contracted form of is, was, or has; or the genitive possession mark. It is never, never, never, never, never, never, never (one more time) never a plural. Never.

But using an apostrophe for DM'ing is okay, huh?

 

[EricNoah]

I see it all the times on D&D-related boards.

That's "all the time" not "all the times" -- in this idiom, time is a collective substance like water. But that's ok, we know your English is better than our French by about a factor of a million.

BTW I think people, even educated people, use DM's and RPG's etc. to indicate plurals because they think that "s" might be seen as part of the abbreviation otherwise.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I voted for Monks/Bards/Rangers suck, myself. The Ranger I can see is worth arguing about, but Bards and Monks are just as effective as anyone else if played properly.

 

[Eridanis]

AoOs, not AoO's.

What makes things even more confusing, is that it really should be AsoO - for "attacks of opportunity."

Bless you for standing up for proper punctuation and grammar. I work for a magazine publisher, and sometime even they don't get it right. In printed products. Makes me shudder.

Edit: Oh, and I voted for "3.5 is evil." Nothing like thrashing around in the dark, looking for a fight on unknown ground.

 

[Ravellion]

How can you be sick of knickers??

Eric Noah goes Commando!

Rangers/Bards/Monks suck got my vote. Class bashing is always so much fun. Especially if you get the N00b DM banning the monk outright in his campaign not because of flavour issues, but because of balance issues. From looking at it on paper. Tssk Tssk.

Rav

 

[Sixchan]

Thing is, when someone who is new to these boards unknowingly brings up an agrument that has been "done to death", a lot of the jaded veterans here come at him like piranhas. The poor new guy is quickly reduced to bones by the camaraderie, the hindsight, and the honed rebuttals of the veterans.

You have to possess a pretty thick skin to hang in there and get past your initiatial hundred or so posts.

(But, really, I guess this pretty much goes for any message board.)

I learned long ago that the best place to make your first post is in a humour thread. Start with a joke, and it makes a much better impression on people. Also, asking questions makes you seem like you are trying get help solving problems, instead of just complaining about them. Then you move on to more serious comments, and then maybe posting threads that have complaints. It's kinda like an online strategy game...