Any Grognards Here?

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[–]bife_de_lomo 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Hear hear! I think it's crazy that people expect to see the human diversity of the modern USA depicted in a fantasy world rooted in the culture of medieval Europe.

The restrictions on certain races makes sense in the universe, as do the class restrictions. They're not even races in the sense we understand them, I'd consider them different species except for the fact that you can have a "mixed" character.

Wheelchair accessible adventuring is also a little bit bonkers to demand from official canon, so entitled! And a wheelchair using adventurer who couldn't climb stairs is so useless in a dungeon it stretches the credibility of them being part of a party.

The point of D&D is that things like this are always flexible, if your game doesn't care that you want to play as a "good" vampire, or a female knight then great, but why demand it from the game system?

As for the fighting, yeah it definitely has its place, and the game world is in truth built around combat. I enjoy a difficult fight, but sometimes it's fun to think outside the box.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Another stupid recent demand is that there be no evil races. Because that's 'racism'. I don't give a shit if it's racist? I don't care what these people think about anything?

There is no logical reason why a purely evil race couldn't exist. In fact, a lot of brain scientists think free will is utter horseshit and most of your personality is genetic, from politics or interest in art. Given that, it's entirely possible that real world people can be 'born evil' in that they're antisocial predators.

I saw a Youtube video claiming that evil races are 'bad game design', and the argument was clearly that he takes it as granted that anyone can be anything, which isn't true in the real world and there's no reason it ought to be. Most of the time the player who picks obscure snowflake races with special powers is just a shitty player who doesn't want to actually engage the setting and instead wants to be the Main Character of an anime. These people seem to refuse to accept that D&D is basically a wargame about money and power, and not their weeb mental masturbation simulator. They keep wanting it to be something it's not and having fits when they figure it out.

Of course they could go and make their own 'Nothing but Faggots' RPG (it's called Blue Rose, actually), but nobody would play that shit, so they have to inflict their mental derangements and delusions on people trying to play a fucking war game.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Kind of. Your genetics are more like limitations and influences. Because the real story is that it's all a simulation and they keep tricking you into reincarnating in it. But battling the desires of the flesh is basically impossible at times.

Also, if there's such thing as an "evil species", humans are definitely one of them, and probably the worst in the "real" world.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Most people, as any evopsych professor can tell you, are unprincipled, opportunistic, conformist but completely self-involved, weak and afraid of anyone better than them, lazy, lecherous, irresponsible, hypocritical and keen to project as a way to draw attention away from their own flaws. And an IQ of 100 is rather stupid. By almost any standard, most people are, in fact, bad people. But point that out and all of a sudden you're a supervillain fascist.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

An IQ of 9999999999999 is stupid by absolute terms.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

IQ doesn't work that way.