Quote from: HappyDaze on March 02, 2025, 01:51:29 PM

Quote from: Zelen on March 02, 2025, 10:52:59 AM- Deliberate anti-White, anti-Male discrimination emphasized in artwork & NPC/adventure design

The tale of Regdar says this happened in 3e times; it was not introduced in 4e.

Quote from: Zelen on March 02, 2025, 10:52:59 AM- Push towards "Costume Play" mentality where being an Orc, a Drow, a Tiefling doesn't represent a realized non-Human mind with completely different drives, motivations, ethos -- They're identical to humans except with a different +bonus and racial power.

This has existed since the beginning of RPGs. What about 4e makes you think it started there?

That has honestly always bothered me. I read a few comments that talked about that on a forum around 2010 with some leftist virtue signaller going: "Yeah well as a white male who is not insecure, I think what happened to Reghdar is hilarious, because trying to appeal to white men is racist". Meanwhile, this "political correct" loser didn't realize that what the marketing team was trying to do back then is no different than what he does: Trying to appeal to "colored people". The difference is that marketing does so to make money, while he does it to stroke his own ego. They actually think that anything that is nice to white people is racist and exclusive, yet anything that is nice to other races is fine and inclusive.

Imagine if artists did the opposite: That they were told to make the characters more diverse, and then kept having a black female paladin (which, while using their own words against them, is cultural appropriation of the classic european looking knight) being killed in gruesome manners all the time, just because of contempt for that decision. These same people would scream "RACIST!" off the top of their lungs if that happened. But Reghdar being killed in art all the time because he's white and a man is somehow "funny" and perfectly fine to them.

They had already been brainwashed at that point to believe that people of a certain race (and gender combination) were evil by proxy, and were some kind of "oppressor race" (who needed to attone for their "sins" by blindly following leftist dogma like they do), all while taunting just how "good and anti-racist" they were, like good little cultists.

It's honestly sickening.

Quote from: Horace on March 16, 2025, 01:42:50 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit on March 16, 2025, 12:07:39 PMBook of Many Things

Well, I'm glad to say that I'm now so oblivious to what WotC is doing that I had no idea what this was. Apparently they've released a number of books since I stopped paying attention (and I used to buy every new release in the early days of 5E!). Now I wouldn't touch a WotC book with a ten-foot pole.

QuoteThe biggest proof that this edition WASN'T written by AI is that if it was true the game would probably be a lot better.

This was my thought as well. AI can do incredible things. WotC, not so much.

Yup, same. I had to look it up. Best part, the last book I bought was that dragon themed one, because they FINALLY added gem dragons after 5 years of people asking them about it all the time.

Me, I actually wrote whatever was wrong with 5E into my dragon themed homebrew book as well, and sold it to about 700 people. I can use that book myself whenever I want to , so after 5E I don't need anything else (I also have Pathfinder 1E content, which was great as this was largely before they went super woke). For those interested, here is my old kickstarter I used to sell it, complete with introduction. I still have a few spare ones lying around in case anyone is interested

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nielsdejong/legacy-of-the-dragon-a-dragon-themed-supplement-for-5e/description

Here is a preview of my Half Dragon player race, of which I am particulairly proud

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d-XqrHLMfd7MCoNFn7KMK5T5iPPtsIrs/view