Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary
A roleplayer frustrated at the structure of our society. She/her.
@Enfors @rustyfish I’m of the opinion that PvP should only happen with mutual consent between the players.
@Shkshkshk @196 Suffice it to say that I suffered through over a decade of “bad classroom management”, a lot of which went above and beyond mere attempts at containing screaming and crying… and meanwhile, the “teasers” (the teachers insisted that the verbal bullying be called “teasing”) got away scot-free.
I ultimately dropped out of school because of the way the teachers treated me, even two years after they actually finally decided putting the bullies on notice was a worthwhile step.
@Shkshkshk @196 Do you have means by which to report potential bullies? Because I can only imagine a bully thinking this way.
@Shkshkshk @dnd Hags being considered fey, Sora Kell or any of her daughters would be appropriate.
@Yora There were three absolutely fundamental problems in D&D 3.0.
1: Threat range stacked endlessly. Worse, some 3.0 non-core material had weapons with a native 17-20 threat range, or 19-20/x3.
2: 3.0 Haste was not only unlike TSR-era Haste, but was eminently abusable by spellcasters. Use 3.5 Haste instead, full stop.
3: Polymorph Other did not have any chance of changing the personality of the recipient, meaning you could permanently turn your fighters into giants and such risk-free.
@GuerillaGrue @Shyfer 3rd Edition is when they even started *trying* to push back, by getting rid of class and level limits by species.
@Shkshkshk @196 Do you also have an excuse for why the bullying victim gets punished by teachers instead of the bully?
@weirdwriter @techtakes @fuck_ai
What a way to lose a friend.
@sirblastalot @Ziggurat And it’s pretty clear that orcs and goblins and such started out as the stand-ins for those Natives.
@Khrux @kbal The impression I’ve gotten over the years is that Gygax was certainly sexist at the time (expecting that D&D would obviously not be for women, for example) only to ease off as the years went by (being pleasantly surprised that actually women do like D&D). This contrasts with his racism, which I understand him to have hewed strongly to until the day he died.