Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary

@superkret @andrew0 An emotional distance from those still mortal, especially those who are going to die soon — even those whose fate they could change through simple measures.

@Enfors @rustyfish I’m of the opinion that PvP should only happen with mutual consent between the players.

@sirblastalot @Ziggurat And it’s pretty clear that orcs and goblins and such started out as the stand-ins for those Natives.

@GuerillaGrue @Shyfer 3rd Edition is when they even started *trying* to push back, by getting rid of class and level limits by species.

@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.

@Shkshkshk @dnd Hags being considered fey, Sora Kell or any of her daughters would be appropriate.

@bradorsomething @copacetic WotC still owns the vast majority of D&D. The CC-BY release of the 5.1 SRD isn’t even all the core books of one edition… and we had to shout at them in order to make them release even *that* much, and not just the bits they didn’t think they could defend in court as a PR stunt.

In our current socioeconomic climate, I’m not sure anyone who’d *buy* D&D off of WotC’s corpse would want to *save* D&D like WotC did two decades ago, as opposed to copyright trolling.

@Whidou @Ziggurat @mozz Absolutely this. A “random encounter” can be finding a magical spring, a traveling merchant, a lost child, faeries who invite you to a riddle-game, or any number of other things that don’t involve combat.

@h3rm17 @jjjalljs 30 feet is about 9 meters, if that’s any help. But given that you’re also asking how long 6 seconds is when that’s the same regardless of country, I’m assuming not?

@phase @psion1369 Some of the issue is simply that a lot of people don’t have the slightest idea that D&D is a single example in a larger category called TTRPGs.

For most people outside the hobby, “TTRPG” draws a blank stare, and “RPG” conjures thoughts of video games. “Like D&D” gets some superficial comprehension.

And then there are the people who drive the rest of us nuts calling *ANY* TTRPG “D&D”, whether it bears any resemblance or not…

@AngryCommieKender As far as I’m aware, that happened far earlier than the era you cited. I’ve heard that people were calling them “T$R” and “They Sue Regularly” in the early 90s, before the general public exploded onto the Net.

@AngryCommieKender @Susaga Eh, I wouldn’t really call TSR’s issues in “2.5”/late 2e similar to the issues surrounding the cancellation of the d20 System Trademark License, the 4e GSL, or this past January’s OGL debacle. For one thing, the game never officially had an open license before 3e came along. For another, late TSR’s woes had more to do with their reach exceeding their grasp.

@Eagle0600 @Velynt Or its 5e-based successor, Everyday Heroes.