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@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.

@Shkshkshk @grasshopper_mouse As far as my own media childhood goes:

1. Play some of Square/Squaresoft's various JRPGs from before the Square Enix merger.

2. Watch some awesome cartoons that got tragically cancelled before they could finish. (ABC's "SatAM" Sonic the Hedgehog, Pirates of Dark Water... technically Thundercats 2011 is too late for my childhood, but it's the same idea).

That'll give you a good summary.

@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.

@weirdwriter @techtakes @fuck_ai

What a way to lose a friend.

@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?

@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.