I'd answer myself, but mxy and I are having a bizarre disagreement, and I'm tense about the possibility of a downvote disrupting my max for the day... all of which strongly suggests that I should get off the Stack, go home (i've been here editing my answer instead for the last, er, two hours) and eat/sleep. >__<
But yeah feel free to steal that too, if you end up being the person who writes said competing answer. ^__^
@SirTechSpec Ah, that ridiculous thing where you get 400 rep in a day, take one downvote at the end, and don't count count as having rep-capped. Fun times.
@SirTechSpec Not a chance, I stay far away from the social ones :)
@Miniman Perfectly understandable, especially since so many of us are happy to jump on them. (I don't think it's actually because everyone loves social questions, but because they're usually system-agnostic.)
@BESW @NexTerren Entropy? Still has negative connotations, I guess. We tend to associate order/law with good, therefore chaos/disorder/entropy must be not-good.
Others first commented on the irony of this attitude given the core issue in the question. Is this a case of "I am my brother's keeper" in action? The person asking the question has been with RPG.SE longer than I have.
@KorvinStarmast I'd assume that it was to clearly express the sentiment. "Medieval grade" isn't really useful; we all sort of get what it's meant to mean, but it seems better to have the meaning actually stated.
@SirTechSpec -- btw, I'm abstaining on that question because my views on gender identity are extremely politically incorrect, despite being inclusive/accommodating
(I frame the gender identity discussion in terms of "everyone has different mating logic wiring in their heads, and our society doesn't handle this notion well" -- this works well in practice, but is way outside the normal discourse)
OK, if I have to spell it out for you: I find it ironic that someone trying to help someone else dealing with stereotypes uses a stereotype in asking the question. I see no reason to not let it stand, rather than cover up for a double standard. On the other hand, the person asking the question sincerely wishes to help someone who I suspect has been burned more than once, IRL and on the Net ...
@KorvinStarmast So my comment wasn't so much a comment on any irony, but honest unsurety about what was trying to be conveyed. (Good luck to all parsing that last sentence. I think I've forgotten English.)
I didn't know if the OP was just snarkily/passive-aggressively trying to say that some at tables treat them in ways that make them uncomfortable...
For all: I chose the "am I my brother's keeper" explicitly for a reason. Mxy's approach to the question and answers is spot on, and I've upvoted all of his comments. @BESW How did you see my point as his attitude? I may be failing in communication 101.
or if there actually was some well-known prior attitude being referenced. I'm a total neophyte in issued of gender identity/politics/history/psychology, so couldn't be sure if I was actually missing something meaningful. (Didn't want to read it as snark if it wasn't.)
@KorvinStarmast You said "I found curious your edit" and then "Others first commented on the irony of this attitude." I assumed you were talking about the attitude of the edit.
By "this attitude" I meant what was in the original question. Should take a bit more care with how I say What I say, and your feedback is well worth it!
@Shalvenay But I didn't want to just assume that and rule out the possibility that this was a very well informed querent referencing historical attitudes (which may have pointed in who-knows-what direction!) that I was unfamiliar with. And I didn't have my Medieval Studies BA of a wife in the house to check with =)
Anyone have a good source for ordering custom swag (apparel, accessories, &c.) in small quantities? I've done customink a bunch of times, but I'm getting near the end of what they have in their "any quantity" selection.
@nitsua60 putting it on things -- I can deal with the art itself as it's already extant (EVE corp/alliance insignia -- I do so want to put together a cosplay of my EVE main for a con sometime)
@nitsua60 yeah, I was thinking that'd be it as well -- but how do you get stuff suitable for the applique process when you're starting with a computer image?
@Shalvenay For large stuff I've just large-format printed graphics for my neighbor and she's worked magic with tracing paper and scissors. For smaller stuff I've gone to another neighbor with a "cutter" that she uses with scrapbooking to cut out the fabrics, which then the first assembles.
@ManojAgrawal Just two American dudes talking needlecraft =)
@Adeptus @nitsua60 I can second the recommendation for cafepress - I use it to get cool, fairly unique stuff that other people design, but it should be just as good for stuff you design yourself.
@nitsua60 One warning - they both are fairly shy of copyright infringement. Other than the IPs they have licenses for, they will block anything remotely questionable (even parodies, etc)
Last year I couldn't find anything and so just built a picnic table for the yard, painted with our "team logo". (Which is actually kinda a good present, but pretty useless in Northeast US in December!)
I'm picturing the optical illusion making the rounds of circles that look like squares in reflection. People are clearly looking at it and seeing 2 different things.
@SirTechSpec Looking back I like how the edit to the preamble gave a lot more context to your numbered points. Makes it clear that you are thinking about online play, not just in-person. (Also, point #3 is HUGE. Great wisdom there.)
@Shalvenay Yes, and I think it's totally appropriate to abstain from a question of the kind where you're not working with the framework/model the querent exists.
@nitsua60 Wonderful, thank you. Working in IT communications I can usually figure out the right amount of context to give, but I obviously didn't get the one right on the first try. Glad we're making progress!
Quick aside: anyone know how to force the mobile interface here in chat?
@NexTerren : consider this which I've found to be an interesting take on how to revamp the alignment system, along with some critique of why it's a poor breakdown in the first place.
also, hello everyone else
@NexTerren I should probably note that I have not had a chance to actually use it in a game
OK, I'm actually gone now- bedtime. Not sure how much y'all will see me for the next week while I'm at the con, but I wish you well until we meet again!
had an hour and a half long talk recently with some friends about how social groups fit together, and how people become aware of shifts in them, as well as their nature. It was pretty interesting, but needs some time to ferment.
Nope.
This has been suggested many, many times, going all the way back to the earliest days of the site. Prior to the creation of Meta SO, feature requests were posted on UserVoice:
Messaging between users
Declined without comment.
User messaging or wall
it's possible we might have so...
I may be way off, but here's what I've got @BESW and @Miniman [score](http://data.stackexchange.com/rpg/query/508371/who-answers-my-questions) [answers](http://data.stackexchange.com/rpg/query/508372/who-answers-my-questions)
huh, I don't seem to be able to make those links look clean
Annnnd some idiot didn't realize he could retitle those queries. facepalm
@KorvinStarmast Like what Miniman said, it was edited to more clearly state the meaning. And I assumed those comments were there suggesting improvements to the question - we don't leave issues in a question to "highlight the irony" or whatever, and frankly that kind of thinking doesn't really have a place here. Stick to improving questions and answers and answering questions, it's safer.
@BESW I wonder what "the vapours" actually means. I recently ran across "a case of the megrims", too - are they both just indicating "generically unwell", or is there a deeper meaning here?
@mxyzplk You and I may never see totally eye to eye on this one, but I do think it expresses more clearly now what I was trying to say, so thank you for sticking with it until the issue came to light.
@BESW Oh? I'd better upgrade the Netbook while I still can. (I think Win7 Starter is eligible for free upgrade). Not touching my main laptop. It'll stay Win7 for the rest of its life.
@BESW One of the guys in my top three is some mini man... don't know who that is. And then there's a seven-sided die. I've looked through a lot of Dragon ads and never seen one of those for sale. This site is weird, I say.
@Adeptus Yeah, I know it's an improvement. But I've got everything working, and it's not enough of an improvement for me to be ok with potentially breaking it all.
That last one isn't really who questions my answers, it's actually whose questions do I answer. So here is the real who questions my answers (or questions): Who dares question me?
Obviously, it's best to disregard yourself and GMJoe in that list.
@lisardggY That reminds me, I always meant to mention: Every time I see your username I think of it as "Lizard GG WHY?" - obviously you were utterly defeated by a lizard at some point, is there more to that story?
When I first got online, I decided to use what I thought was an obscure mythological reference. Only to find that the internet is full of Scandinavians.
While reverse-Yggdrasil is a pretty reliably unique nick (I only ran into someone else using it twice in the last 20 years), it also leads to confusion, either of the "oh, you're the guy with the random jumble of letters for a twitter handle, right?", or of the "Oh, looks like your name is Lisa, so let's try to hit on you" variety.
Though my random-guys-hitting-on-me phase was way back on IRC, before dickpics were a thing, thankfully.
I think my first reaction was, "Why is their name Lizard-doggy, when they have a turtle as an avatar?" (then very quickly noticed the reversed Yggdrasil)
@Miniman Now my instinctive visual is of Charlton Heston kneeling in the sand in front of the Statue of Liberty, yelling "WHY?!" in the newly adapted Planet of the Lizards.
I don't offer a position on the ethics or legality of linking to "D&D Tools" – that's amply covered already, and (despite my frequent writing about the legal issues of copyright) my personal feelings about what should be the ethics and legality are complicated and aren't relevant.
There is a pra...
If a person of X race were raised in Y (different) race's culture, would they "pick up" the stat bonuses, penalties and racial abilities of Y race?
If so, how would one determine which bonuses, penalties, or racial abilities they get?
If it's all genetics, how would they know how racial magi...
It's going to be prone to real-world speculation rather than RPG expertise, but that's not a problem unless it gets really out of hand--I don't think the question is inviting that.
> Page 171 of the 3.5 Dungeon Master's Guide explains how to account for being raised by a different race: you make a new race. The example it gives is the "half-human;" a half-elf raised by elves instead of by humans.
Page 110 of the Player's Handbook discusses less systemic changes as part of the normal process of character customization, and gives an example of changes for a dwarf raised by humans.
@Wibbs It's reading concepts into the game which don't exist and are total nonsense to ask about, due to sheer lack of definition in the game. Is an elf's night vision genetics or upbringing? GM: "I don't know, why are you asking, are you taking a multi-racial feat to pick it up?" Player: "No I'm just asking for worldbuilding reasons." GM: "Well I haven't made any but I don't see why I couldn't."
I mean, all good intentions on the asker's part, but it winds up as a nonsense sort of question to ask about D&D.
Currently, one of the off-topic close reasons reads:
Questions about playing video games and developing video game are off-topic here, but may be on-topic on Arqade and the Game Development Stack Exchange, respectively.
Shouldn't that be changed to developing video games?
I managed to leave work before 5pm today! (It's my choice when I leave, but usually I found a “tiny thing” around half 4 the last few days, and it wasn't that tiny, and when it was completed it was way 6.)
Also, my LARP book prop is approaching completion – some typesetting issues, and then I can see how to get it bound!
Also, I'll go bouldering today and playing board games tomorrow!
You'd think that, but Mere Exposure is quite strong! I originally started when I began studying, because I didn't want to buy bad meat and good meat is expensive, so I ran without it most of the time.
I helps that I had a friend around the corner who mostly cooks vegetarian and comes up with amazing ideas for what to cook.
Went on to consciously deciding not to eat meat apart from special occasions.
Mostly for sustainability reasons, although for that argument to hold I should really look at what else I consume.
These days I still eat meat on special occasions, but I really don't like chicken and sausage-like things any more.
It's more like I love my Portuguese dishes. Pretty much 3/4 of those dishes contain some form of meat. And if it doesn't have it, the taste is lacking.
@Francisco That's the big disadvantage we (quite a few vegetarian eaters among us) had in Portugal. In that case it's good to be flexible or also eat fish, but I don't think that's a diet I could live on for long.
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Nope.
This has been suggested many, many times, going all the way back to the earliest days of the site. Prior to the creation of Meta SO, feature requests were posted on UserVoice:
Messaging between users
Declined without comment.
User messaging or wall
it's possible we might have so...
If a person of X race were raised in Y (different) race's culture, would they "pick up" the stat bonuses, penalties and racial abilities of Y race?
If so, how would one determine which bonuses, penalties, or racial abilities they get?
If it's all genetics, how would they know how racial magi...
Currently, one of the off-topic close reasons reads:
Questions about playing video games and developing video game are off-topic here, but may be on-topic on Arqade and the Game Development Stack Exchange, respectively.
Shouldn't that be changed to developing video games?
