Give the existence of the catapult spell and cattle as a trade good...Sacre bleu! He's on to me.
Edit: Man, catapult sucks. I'm definitely replacing the "maximum increases by 5" with "maximum increases by a power of 10."
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Give the existence of the catapult spell and cattle as a trade good...Sacre bleu! He's on to me.
Straw, meet man. I didn't claim distraction was impossible. Only nearly impossible, and specifically with regard to age vs. insults. Jeebus man. That was a bad one.
Problem is, dragons are also depicted as wise. Wise beings tend to have more control than that (as witnessed by their Wisdom Saving Throw proficiency).
5e also makes it trivially easy for non-weapon-using ranged characters (casters) to just keep casting in melee, and, possible, with feats in use, for ranged weapons, too. That's more the crux of the issue, ranged types forced into melee may be in greater danger, but they don't necessarily lose any effectiveness, while melee types unable to close, do. That'd be OK, if, say, melee were relatively more versatile or powerful in some ways, but optimal ranged builds take the DPR crown, and casting is vastly more versatile than melee.
There's also the superiority complex to get past as well mind you.
Even if ants could talk and I knew what they were saying, I probably wouldn't get riled up by them. They're just ants.
I'd think it cute, maybe creepy, and if it got annoying, crush them as a whole.Even if they were chanting "Murder the human" over and over again in a sing-song voice while looking directly at you?
Superiority complex at that point tends to respond with, "okay, they're trying to be a threat, kill them." Which, incidentally, is the standard human response for any animal that becomes a threat to humanity...
You might want to retake the logic course that taught you about straw man fallacies. Because that wasn't the logical fallacy I used. Especially since I made it a point to address your actual argument in my next section.
The bad one was your complete BS statement about insults not working. Tell that to every person who's responded to road rage with even worse road rage. Tell that to the cops who've gunned down people for insulting them. Tell that to the soldiers and bikers who have severely beaten people for insulting them. Tell that to the judges who have gotten angry and sentenced someone worse than they deserved just because of the criminal insulting them. Tell that to most politicians, some of whom make entire half-century-long careers out of getting vengeance for an insult paid to them.
I can cite people who are famous for not responding well to insults. Steve Jobs used his own death to get back at people who insulted him, just because of how badly he took insults. Linus Torvald is famous for his temper-tantrums because he feels insulted. One guy I shouldn't mention the name of is basing at least part of his current political career on responding to insults.
That's objectively false. Age mellows/alters temperament. That's a well known fact.It's entirely down to temperament. Someone who is even-tempered? Doesn't matter how much you insult them. Someone who is prideful, like every example I mentioned? Easy as pie.
Even if they were chanting "Murder the human" over and over again in a sing-song voice while looking directly at you?
Which there has never been. Not once has there been an animal that is a threat to humanity. A threat to some individuals, sure. Humanity Never. Also, eliminating a threat doesn't mean distraction or anger. You can eliminate threats with calm indifference.Superiority complex at that point tends to respond with, "okay, they're trying to be a threat, kill them." Which, incidentally, is the standard human response for any animal that becomes a threat to humanity...