The Tielfling and The Gnome: On the Set of 4th edition

[RPG_Tweaker]

Hey... when the Tiefling fries the other two, the sound effect sounded suspiciously like the Imp fire ball from Doom.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

When I was an English major, I worked as a grader for one of the professors. In my experience, English majors can't spell.

Wow, depressing.

 

[Dire Bare]

Not to sound snarky, but of course it is "teef-ling". It's practically a German word, meaning little dark one. In German, the "ie" diphthong is always pronounced like you are saying the letter "e" in the alphabet. I did not realize people were trying to pronounce it any other way.

Of course. How silly to think otherwise.

 

[Nightchilde-2]

I don't take D&D any more seriously than any other game (little), but "people" (whether real people I meet on the street or cartoon people) deserve better than that. I can't help but feel bad for them if they are mistreated. And I have to wonder about the people who made the cartoon, or laughed at it: what's funny about someone being killed? what was funny when the tiefling kicked the badger? do you laugh when you see stray dogs run over in the street?

ha ha

NOT BLACKLEAF! NOOOOOO!!!

While I might not laugh at a coyote that gets run over in the street, I'll sure as Hades laugh at Wile E. Coyote getting run over by a steamroller.

I wouldn't find kicking a badger in real life very amusing, but kick a cartoon badger in a cartoon and I'll giggle.

I might shoot a bajillion bad guys in Call of Duty 4, but I'd never dream of raising a gun to someone in real life that wasn't threatening me.

'cause y'know what?

One's real and actually feels pain. The other is not and doesn't.

 

[Wolfspider]

The new tieflings are incredibly lame.

 

[CrusaderX]

I love the new tieflings.

And the new gnomes! Great cartoon!

 

[Midknightsun]

The English major in you isn't freaking out over your spelling and grammar, though?

Tangent/

Minor twitches. The mangling I hear with Pennsylvania Dutch sentence structures bothers me a lot more than spelling errors.

Alas, everytime I say "English Major" somehow its automatically equated with spelling and grammar. It makes me twitch more. Its. . . not. . . about. . . . spelling. *goes off to weep, and kick more puppies*

Besides, as my Professor said in my one and only college level grammar class: Local dialect is a valid form of written and verbal communication despite the claims of the Patriarchal Language Nazis.

When I was an English major, I worked as a grader for one of the professors. In my experience, English majors can't spell.

Er, yeah, this too.

What can I say, spellchecker ruined us.

For the record, I'm much more careful when writing formal papers.

/Tangent

 

[jester47]

Comedy, by its very nature, is rooted in hostility.

Find me a joke, a funny situation, or humor that is not.

Can't be done.

 

[HeinorNY]

Could anyone please transcribe the dialogues, there are some parts I just can't understand.

 

[Zander]

I have zero intrest in both the tiefling and gnome as presented now. Both seem to just be lame concept knock offs. Sadly 4e is starting to look like lots of interesting new rules with irritating new fluff. I fear that I will find very very few pieces of art in this edition that I find even remotly useful or inspiring.

QFT

I suspect that 4E will be a success because of its game mechanics. Lamentably, WotC will mistakenly also attribute this success to their (mis)treatment of fantasy. :\