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I think I'm a dying breed

Started by Sacrosanct, August 24, 2013, 12:13:02 AM

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Piestrio

#120
August 25, 2013, 05:15:24 PM
Quote from: Nexus;685443Quick, someone make a comment about her sexist, objectifying boobplate or the world won't make sense!

She's twisting to the side to excentuate her boobs for a male audience. He shield is also placed to be out of the way of the male gaze, subcounciously inviting the viewer to see her as a sexual object.

And don't even mention the giant phallic object she's presenting.
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estar

#121
August 25, 2013, 05:29:35 PM
Quote from: Haffrung;685435The difference is that in pre-WotC D&D, the players had no means or motive to engage in char op between sessions by adding bits and pieces, feats, and multi-classes, from commercial products that were written for that purpose. You picked a race, picked a class, assigned some stats. Character done. The rest of the challenge is in the gameplay.

True there wasn't char op but there was item op. The drive behind char ops is nothing new. You are woefully looking at the past with rose colored glasses.

If anything it was worse because circa 1980 D&D was it. So you had killers, char ops, roleplayers, etc, etc all throw into one big heap. Then as new forms of gaming arose these groups began to peel off and play the medium best suited for their interests.

Ladybird

#122
August 25, 2013, 05:59:11 PM
Quote from: Nexus;685443Quick, someone make a comment about her sexist, objectifying boobplate or the world won't make sense!

Boobplate may or may not be sexist, but it is fucking retarded.
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Nexus

#123
August 25, 2013, 06:00:25 PM Last Edit: August 25, 2013, 06:07:00 PM by Nexus
Quote from: Ladybird;685458Boobplate may or may not be sexist, but it is fucking retarded.

Quote from: Piestrio;685449She's twisting to the side to accentuate her boobs for a male audience. He shield is also placed to be out of the way of the male gaze, subconsciously inviting the viewer to see her as a sexual object.

And don't even mention the giant phallic object she's presenting.

Now I feel better.
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TristramEvans

#124
August 25, 2013, 06:27:25 PM Last Edit: August 25, 2013, 06:33:24 PM by TristramEvans
Quote from: Nexus;685443Quick, someone make a comment about her sexist, objectifying boobplate or the world won't make sense!

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flyerfan1991

#125
August 25, 2013, 06:57:27 PM
Quote from: Piestrio;685449She's twisting to the side to excentuate her boobs for a male audience. He shield is also placed to be out of the way of the male gaze, subcounciously inviting the viewer to see her as a sexual object.

And don't even mention the giant phallic object she's presenting.

Where does the six-pack on her boob plate fall into?  Wishful thinking?

Piestrio

#126
August 25, 2013, 08:01:23 PM
Quote from: flyerfan1991;685471Where does the six-pack on her boob plate fall into?  Wishful thinking?

Unrealistic standards of beauty perpetuated by the patriarchy to oppress women.
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TristramEvans

#127
August 25, 2013, 08:03:59 PM
Quote from: flyerfan1991;685471Where does the six-pack on her boob plate fall into?  Wishful thinking?

Signs of repressed violence from an abusive relationship.

danbuter

#129
August 25, 2013, 08:57:51 PM
Thanks for derailing an interesting thread, Tangencites!
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#131
August 25, 2013, 10:51:59 PM
Quote from: danbuter;685495Thanks for derailing a[strike]n interesting[/strike] thread, Tangencites!
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flyerfan1991

#132
August 25, 2013, 11:16:10 PM
Quote from: Piestrio;685478Unrealistic standards of beauty perpetuated by the patriarchy to oppress women.

And here I thought it was the artist projecting how they'd like their own gut to look like if they didn't drink a six pack a day.

And, you know, exercise.

Mistwell

#133
August 25, 2013, 11:25:13 PM
Quote from: TristramEvans;685285My reading of it and subsequent exposure to it on forums, was that the game achieves 'balance' in that its possible to min-max every character to the exact same level of combat effectiveness through any class.

Well, I entirely disagree with that.  It is not built that way, that is not a design goal of 5e, that idea was raised directly by Mearls and he said they are trying to stay away from that.  So, I strongly disagree.

QuoteThis went along with players who did not invest into a detailed learning of the rules would not end up with a character at the same peak of effectiveness as those players who achieved (their words, by way of Gygax) "system mastery".

This sounds like a 3e quote.  In fact, it was, from Monte Cook.  I have seen no such quote on 5e, and they've repudiated that idea.

So, I gotta ask, WHERE did you read that about 5e?

Mistwell

#134
August 25, 2013, 11:29:12 PM
Quote from: Sacrosanct;685161Rolling 4d6 take lowest is a min maxer?

Quote from: soviet;6853784d6 drop lowest and arrange to taste has been the expected method in all the AD&D games I've been involved in as well.

There seems to be some confusion over what we're talking about here...
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