It’s such a reactionary dog whistle. I used to be one of those “lore accurate” nerds for Tolkein. But for stuff like, “It’s Dwarves, not Dwarfs, that was intentional by Tolkein so we should use Dwarves as the plural.”

When I saw the same nerds I used to argue unimportant shit like that with turn around and say “The elves can’t be black and I’m not racist it’s just the lore” I ran out of there so fast.

it used to mean "this doesn't have thomas the tank engine or anime characters in it"

now it usually means "no gay stuff"

its wild

for one the official lore of faerun is so jumbled and often contradictory over the years that you could almost say anything about it and it would be true according to one official source of another

on the other hand because the lore is a cooperative element of each table who is actively playing the game and thereby writing it as they go along anything you like is lore accurate because you are one of the writers of the lore yourself as a player and a gm

it's a fictional work, the only thing it has to be accurate to is itself!

Earlier versions of that fiction are likely to have more

I'm more interested in 'based mods' in this context

Mods to make female characters more scantily clad and have shittier stats (also no black people) would be my bet as to what this mouth breather considers 'based'

One of the coolest things about reptiles is gender ambiguity. No boobs, they have a genital slit and many of them have a retractable penis, sometimes two. Some female reptiles and choose whether or not to get pregnant and/or store cum for later. Imagine how interesting a society like that would be, and what kinds of gender roles, relationship norms, and such would shake out.

That’s the kind of stuff fantasy could really explore. Turning them into people with scales, keeping the obvious secondary sexual characteristics, is fucking boring and played out.

Those who are against lizard boobs are against me

It's funny because they're trying to come up with a term that's equal to woke but isn't woke.

"noticer" or "vigilant" or some other synonym for woke that isn't "asleep"

they're a gygaxhead for sure

you need a high wq

wokeness quotient

There was literally a mod to make Wyll white because they can't handle the existence of dark-skinned people in a cosmopolitan metropolis with Renaissance-level tech

Motherfuckers don't even know about Reasonable Blackman

More like noncer

Probably cognitive dissonance, they're super attracted to colored hair women, but they tend to be too progressive for them.