You're arguing with pedantic rules lawyers, Odieman. They have no capacity for nuance or to comprehend that you might think of things differently than them, based on the same primary source information. If you continue, they'll just resort to finding ways to insult you personally.
In my case, they even piled on me in another thread because I said I liked clicking reroll in BG1/2 during character creation. These people are children, and shouldn't be expected to hold adult conversations.
I even explicitly said that I was talking about the removal of alignment from race, lore, and character creation, not just errata. Doesn't matter to them, I'm still "incorrect".
These are the people I wouldn't play D&D with in person either, because they're the worst kinds of people to sit at a table with.
Pachanj, I just read that attribute thread because I was worried I was misremembering it...
Red Queen (with whom Odie is arguing) was on YOUR SIDE in that argument. Red Queen was defending you against Blackheifer. Niara wasn't even part of that conversation (concerning enjoying rerolling, which I enjoy too).
In response to Blackheifer calling you a sucker, Red Queen said:
"Really?! Spending ages rethrowing virtual dice seems a pretty harmless way to get your jollies to me, and not at all deserving of repeated condescension and scorn.
I get that you see nostalgia for elements of the old BG games as symptomatic of a wider negative tendency that over-exaggerates their virtues for the purposes of criticising BG3, and that resists innovation in the name of fidelity to the original franchise. And I also agree that tendency exists, and can be a bit of a downer sometimes on these forums.
But not every instance of fondness for some aspect of the old games is tied to that broader attitude, and implying folk who have some innocent affection for the BG1/2 stat dice-rolling mechanic are losers doesn’t help make the atmosphere any more positive."
EDIT:
I am now just realizing you might be talking about Blackheifer specifically. If so, my bad. Blackheifer can't post anything without a bit of sass in it; that's just who they are. (In case you're reading this, Blackheifer, I'm just making an observation, not trying to pick a fight.)
