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DO PEOPLE INSIST ON ADDING DETAILS TO ROLEPLAYING SETTINGS THAT UNDERMINE THE ESSENTIAL REALISM OF PEOPLE FIGHTING DRAGONS BY THINKING HARSH THOUGHTS SO ENERGETICALLY LITERAL FIRE SHOOTS OUT OF THE CHARACTERS' FINGERTIPS?

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From:

catbear

Reckon there's some kind of delight to be had in tormenting those fragile little minds unaccustomed to venturing outside the safe confines of the patriarchal white supremacist society they were raised in. Maybe?

Edited Date: 2020-08-21 03:58 pm (UTC)

From: (Anonymous)

Did you play a game with contact between Europe and Latin America in the 19th century?

From:

theresawright

Everyone knows SJWs didn't invent non-cis non-straight non-white non-male people until the 1980s.

From:

dragoness_e

So this is either about non-white characters in fantasy pseudo-medieval pseudo-Europe, or a certain hugely popular fantasy MMORPG that appears to have the sun both rise and set in the north. I admit to being the person who bitched about the latter.

From: (Anonymous)

Is it possible the game is set on an Alderson disc?

From:

dragoness_e

Only if it somehow manages to look exactly like a round planet when viewed from orbit. (Yes, there is a point in the game where you are standing on the deck of a spaceship in orbit looking down at the planet). And all if all the globes found in various Neglectful Precursor dungeons are lying. (Which is possible, the NPs somehow missed a few continents when mapping... not to mention mapping the globe in a time when it was a pangaea but showing the current map. Self-updating globes, I presume.)

From: (Anonymous)

There's precedent. The planet in Final Fantasy 8 looks round when you see it from space, but the surface clearly has toroidal topology when you're moving around on it.

From:

kgbooklog

I've seen more than one fantasy novel where the provided map had E and W swapped on the compass rose. None of them ever mentioned this detail in the text.

From:

keith_morrison

It comes from the probably geographically-clueless belief some people have that they're going to show an otherwise Earthlike planet but the sun rises in the west! See, dramatically different worldbuilding!

They usually assume that "north" is the prime cardinal direction and the others are defined off it, when in truth "north" is simply the direction of the pole to your left when looking toward the rising sun (over most of the planet's surface area, anyway).

From:

scott_sanford

Doesn't this come up in an Oz book? Granted that this is not in the top hundred bizarre things in the land of Oz, so it could easily be forgotten.

From: (Anonymous)

The further north you go in summer, the further north the Sun rises and sets. Of course, at some point it just skims the due north horizon. North of that, no rising or setting.

From:

rydra_wong

Is this about the combat wheelchair, or has there been a new kerfuffle since?

If it's about the combat wheelchair, I'm going to leave the link here for anyone who wishes to admire or add it to their own games:

https://twitter.com/mustangsart/status/1291836011438366723

From: (Anonymous)

FOOLS! THE ESSENTIAL REALISM OF ROLEPLAYING WAS ALREADY FOREVER COMPROMISED WHEN THEY INSISTED ON ABANDONING THE PERFECT AND FLAWLESS MECHANIC OF PERCENTILE STRENGTH!

Riderius

From:

thatdawnperson

I too lose immersion in settings that take seriously armours that focus blows into the sternum or leave huge swaths of flesh utterly without protection.