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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9626140" data-attributes="member: 6799660">This isn't any more representative than your own personal experience, but back in the (late) 3e days the alignment and Book of Exalted Deeds/Book of Vile Darkness subforums on the Wizards.com forum were absolutely hopping, and home to some of the most over-the-top vitriolic nerd rage the early 00s internet had to offer. There's a linguistic trend that predates modern meat/dairy substitutes (I'm thinking of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_rarebit" target="_blank">Welsh rarebit</a>, but I'm sure it goes back to time immemorial) where something that is, by convention, a substitute for ting X can be named as a type of the thing, along with an adjective. Rocky Mountain Oysters aren't oysters, they are delicacies you have when in a specific place where oysters were impractical. Food producers pretend it is controversial because, hey, why should Soy Milk get to call itself Milk when it isn't milk*, but conceptually the linguistic action is hardly new or especially problem prone. *of course they never had a problem with coconut milk which only competed in their market when someone was making a curry, or the like.Not that I think the existence of vegan steak (or whether it is steak or steak-substitute-which-gets-to-call-itself-steak) really plays into the point (it is forcing the analogy past its original purpose). Scribe's point about people who dislike a mechanic likely voting for the edition which downplays the mechanic is reasonable and valid.Mind you, I wouldn't worry too much about the actual poll results. We are all well aware that they are not representative of gamers overall, or even the community here (just the subset that enters a thread and feels compelled to answer the poll). No one (or the edition of their preference) 'wins' anything by winning these polls. It's just a convenient vehicle for initiating discussion.</blockquote>

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