The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Cadence]

"As long as it's real pizza.". <- if they've said bad things about your favorite stuffed pizza several times before, it feels like you might want to make sure they don't think your pizza is just a casserole before taking that as them agreeing with you about something.

 

[prabe]

Well, you've set yourself up to be on the receiving end of some walls-o-text. Brace yerself.

 

[overgeeked]

A: "Here's a thing I know."

B: "I don't believe you. Cite your sources."

C: "Here's some sources."

B: "Okay, they clearly said the thing A claims...but...but you're still wrong! Because!"

A and C: "..."

I'll leave this here. No reason...

Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds

New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.

www.newyorker.com

 

[Cadence]

A: "Here's a thing I know."

B: "I don't believe you. Cite your sources."

C: "Here's some sources."

B: "Okay, they clearly said the thing A claims...but...but you're still wrong! Because!"

A and C: "..."

I'll leave this here. No reason...

Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds

New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.

www.newyorker.com

To be fair to B, the 5e DMG suffers the sextuple whammy of having an atrocious index, no one reading it, trying to order all things to all people, being for a game not enough like 4e, being for a game not different enough from 4e, and being published by WotC. So it is kind of mean to cite it as a source.

 

[overgeeked]

To be fair to B, the 5e DMG suffers the sextuple whammy of having an atrocious index, no one reading it, trying to order all things to all people, being for a game not enough like 4e, being for a game not different enough from 4e, and being published by WotC. So it is kind of mean to cite it as a source.

The no one reads the DMG meme didn't start with 5E. Most people playing and running AD&D had no idea what the DMG said. It was the last book printed of the core three. People just looked up the charts they needed and any random rules that might come up along with the magic items. A few decades later people are still surprised what the AD&D DMG says. I bet, if it's even remembered in a few decades, there will be similar RPG archaeology in regards to the 5E DMG.

 

[Cadence]

The answer is obviously "badly done Tolkien" for one of them "Tolkien for the other" and "Yeuch!" for the rest.

 

[Cadence]

The no one reads the DMG meme didn't start with 5E. Most people playing and running AD&D had no idea what the DMG said. It was the last book printed of the core three. People just looked up the charts they needed and any random rules that might come up along with the magic items. A few decades later people are still surprised what the AD&D DMG says. I bet, if it's even remembered in a few decades, there will be similar RPG archaeology in regards to the 5E DMG.

You take that back! Or I will look up what title the person from that kind of government in that size settlement has, not to mention their scary personality traits, and how much they pay their hirelings to come get you and what kind of insanity you might be subject to if your attempted escape leads you to pay taxes, meet random harlots, and possibly run smack into a randomly encountered demon lord! (No, that's not a demon lord and stop staring at it, that's creepy! You're not even supposed to have this book since you're a player! I'll tell you what the magic items do when you need to know).

 

[Ondath]

on the one hand, we want copyright protections, but on the other hand, we hate what Disney has done in the past regarding copyright protections.

I am absolutely in favour of artists, inventors and scientists making a living off of their creations (and thus be encouraged to create more). As long as copyright serves that purpose, it's great.

I also think these protections extending to anything beyond one generation of close family members, or being held by megacorporations instead of the actual creatives is complete nonsense. So much creativity is being stifled by copyright laws right now. Think of pre-modern classical works like Hamlet, Faust, the Iliad, Antigone... People freely borrowed ideas from them and created their own works for generations (hell, Virgil basically made a fan fiction version of the Iliad with the Aeneid, and centuries later, Dante made a self-insert fanfic with Virgil in the Divine Comedy). The kind of derivative work that existed for millennia is greatly stifled by the current copyright rules. People bemoan things like the MCU, or corporations handling franchises terribly, and the like. The landscape of these narratives could be filled with so much more creativity if copyright was not an issue, and people would (one hopes, naturall) gravitate towards the better works and create a "canon" from the best works.

 

[overgeeked]

Your lack of imagination is a you problem.

 

[trappedslider]

Your lack of imagination is a you problem.