Maybe it's just the lighting, but I don't remember ever seeing a dude with such soft, doughy features and such an incredibly outlined Adam's apple. Congratulations, my guy: you will never be a real woman. Or even a real man, if you keep going like that.
It's never enough. It's just never enough for these kinds of people. No matter how much kowtowing you do, corporate or personal, they will always find something to point at and screech. The perpetual victim needs a perpetual enemy, and they will invent them as necessary. I'd give anything for companies to realize this and just stop going out of their way in attempts to placate these creatures.
You are correct.
As i said before the only real non problematic conflict left in classic D&D lore is the Blood War but they probably wont even touch that because it goes against their no interesting conflicts rule that they must have.
I can't imagine playing 5e at this point. Even if you do it strictly with your own friends, vetting wackos like these, there are still better systems out there, and almost all of them are run by better people than WotC.
I feel like they need to make it easier to die, stop giving everyone magic, cut the tieflings and dragonborn (and maybe the drow and aasimar, and definitely the aardlings) out of the PHB, and stop pushing this social justice crap. Other than that, and the HP sink combat, it’s a pretty decent edition overall.
Eh, I still prefer 3.5 in some ways, even though in all honesty I enjoyed playing 5e too. I think it's because you feel powerful with a good build, but the fights are riskier and take less time than 5e. Especially at higher levels. Also has a variety and flexibility 5e STILL doesn't have by comparison despite its lifespan getting on in years.
I have tons of fun with 5e because my group, as cucked commie lefties as they are, don't give a fuck about being PC or adhering to any of this shit. None of the twitter bitching or wizards groveling and changing things to appease every nigger troon that hops out of the wood work will affect the fact at the end of the day I can and will do whatever the fuck I want with their brain dead rules system and they can't do a thing to stop me. Shit, I'll go back in time and grab even more triggering content and bring it back, baby.
I have the opposite problem. My second group has gathered to start a new campaign and they're such inveterate shitposters the entire group is pun-based furry characters (except for the one goblin) and you cannot go more than 30 seconds without some dumbass quip.
I'm waiting until these "people" inevitably realize that dragons in D&D lore are not only sentient and intelligent creatures, but also are classified and categorized as good and evil based on their skin colors. (Red dragons, being evil, White Dragons being less intelligent, Gold Dragons being Lawful Good ect) and then the call to remove Dragons from "Dungeons and Dragons" will begin.
To be clear, there's no such thing as a "serious" campaign with our group either. The shittalking and punning is pretty consistent but that said the campaign tone is rarely trying for serious and we're all here to have fun. That said, I would really like to see some more serious or provoking situations come up, really raise the stakes, ya know?
That's not what they're going to do.
Yep. That campaign isn't meant to be serious either, it's just sometimes it's nice to have a little breather at the table. When you're constantly making dick jokes, a minute or two of "okay, so... let's just stop and plan our next move real quick" would be very welcome.
I’m not talking save or die. I’m simply saying that they should be just a bit less safeguarded against death. I’ve only ever had a character die twice in 5e, and that was back when my DM and fellow players were tired of my le chaotic neutral characters
The thing is, when almost every PC and their mother has magic by default, the settings with a lower magic level (ie everything lower than the Forgotten Realms) suffer.
Can you elaborate on this more? I am interested, do you just run more punishing encounters or do you just have a table that is more open to no-win scenarios?