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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 6930794" data-attributes="member: 6704184">What, in that quoted text, is untrue? Which part "clearly insulting"? None of it. Anyway, We can disagree about whether there is anything good or worthwhile about a race of social sentients that irredeemably evil. Probably no point in doing so, but we could and I'd respect your opinion on it. But are you seriously going to argue that it's a positive thing, not just something you don't care about but an actual positive thing for the game, that a once playable race that has been dealt with as having a demonic heritage and being able to reject and struggle against that nature, is now being presented purely as demonic abominations that can no more be anything but evil than they can grow wings and fly? Are you seriously going to argue that it isn't better to acknowledge the gaming desires of people who like the race by including a short paragraph noting that there are gnolls, sometimes whole clans/tribes, that have rejected the demon? I mean, seriously, one is objectively more one dimensional than the other. One is objectively more limiting than the other. And you'd probably have written a more compelling writeup for Goliaths. Bc yeah, that is good lore. It is also not what's in the book. The fact we can extrapolate to something good doesn't make the thing we are extrapolating from good, to risk oversimplification. I really like most of what Mearls and co are doing these days. I've many times applauded him on Twitter for a job well done, because he is doing a good job. I dont know if any of you have written for an edited publication, or otherwise taken professional feedback, or even just read reviews, but stating that the worldbuilding of a peice of fiction is lazy is just normal criticism. I'll grant that "crap" was unuseful, but I'd have to have called them "crap" writers for it to be an insult. At worst it was a poorly articulated, too strongly worded, criticism. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go back in Twitter and tell Mearls how rad the Firbolg is, and reiterate that 5e is great. Even tho I wasn't even harsh toward him on Twitter, the reaction here makes me wonder how many people have called him the anti-Christ this week, or whatever.</blockquote>

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