Okay, folks, I am going to be travelling for most of today so won't be around and need your help to self-moderate.
I'm a bit worried about some of the heated language in this thread already, and by a comment that implied the original video shared might be coming from a political angle that wouldn't be appropriate here. I don't have time to watch it myself right now, but can I ask people not to share videos here if all their content wouldn't be something we should be saying ourselves on these forums?
Similarly, I don't want to log in later and find out that this debate has been unnecessarily politicised. If you don't accept that WotC are simply (even if in some cases misguidedly) trying to increase flexibility and choice for players, and must attribute the changes to them (possibly misguidedly again) looking to decrease stereotyping and increase diversity and representation in the game, please bear in mind there will be plenty of people here who are in favour of diversity and representation and against stereotyping (even if they don't think that what WotC are doing is related to that or helps with it) and refrain from being dismissive. Personally, I'd recommend just sticking to the pros and cons of the changes and leave theories about WotC's reasons for them to one side, but if the latter are discussed respectfully, civilly and calmly then that would be fine.
And the standard reminder to recognise when you've made your position clear and not to keep repeating it, and when it is time to agree to disagree.
And my apologies for the perhaps premature moderation here, as we don't seem to have fallen off the rails yet, and I hope you can understand that it's only because I don't want things to kick off while I'm unavailable!
Personally I don't think there's really a lot of value in arguing too much about whether this is good or bad and talking about potential intent here and so on. This is the game we are getting...and it's coming in 11 days or so. And there is especially no reason to be mean to Larian about it because whether by choice or WotC demand this is still an official D&D mechanic that will be in the next year's PHB. No amount complaining will change this now and I really don't think it's that big of an issue to most people. I wish humans were better in this new system but I'm also happy that each race isn't as rigidly cast into a couple of classes as before. You know, I want to make a Githyanki warlock and I'm glad I can have the +2 in charisma rather than strength. It would be so much more productive to talk about where the new system shines and how to shift playstyles for BG3.
