D&D 5E What are the "True Issues" with 5e?

[Vaalingrade]

My point the entire time is they cannot be both - they have to be one or the other. Either they're humans and need to be held to that standard or they're 'human' and they can be or do whatever. But they cannot be both.

No one said they were both. In fact, that they are not the same as Earth humans is my entire thesis.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

What modern fantasy? I honestly don't know what you're talking about.

Most modern fantasy. It's normal at this point in fantasy to see female warriors and the like as completely ordinary, despite the fact they're fighting on battlefields where muscle-powered weapons are dominant.

Do you even read modern fantasy? If so, which was the last modern fantasy novel you read? Me giving examples if you don't read it would be entirely pointless.

 

[mamba]

in a large proportion of modern fantasy and even quite a lot of older fantasy, women just are not less capable of high upper body strength

On a scale from mosquito to Godzilla, humans very much fall into the same range

 

[cbwjm]

Nah man, Lightning McQueen IS SPEED! He's gotta be at least as fast as teleportation!

Not many people realise this, but the speed force the flash taps into is Lightning McQueen.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Personally, I would argue that verisimilitude is broken by elements which are internally inconsistent, not those which are unexplained.

That would be a very good argument, because that is, in fact, what verisimilitude suggests - internal consistency, not everything being explained to the satisfaction of picky nerds like myself.

 

[mamba]

Then stop looking at D&D lol. It's always been extreme here.

It has gotten more super heroic

 

[Ruin Explorer]

It has gotten more super heroic

Facts not in evidence. You want to claim that? Prove it.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Personally, I would argue that verisimilitude is broken by elements which are internally inconsistent, not those which are unexplained.

Fair enough, but I believe not providing  any possible explanation beyond, "that's what the rules say" counts.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

In a scale from mosquito to Godzilla, humans very much fall into the same range

That's not an argument lol, that's a statement that, whilst true, doesn't appear to have any bearing on the discussion.

 

[Vaalingrade]

if they didn’t think of humans as we know them, then they should have used a different species name

They don't use any species name.

They use a common name that already, in our world, describes a class of intelligent ape. No where in the PH will you find H. Sapiens sapiens.