“You have my sword.”

noble monsters?  well id like to react to that, but i cannot.

But the opening paragraph is extremely dishonest. “I am going to say not opinions but truths that whoever disagrees with me is just because they are triggered lol”, having it the both ways pure bully style “hahaha it was sarcastic don't get mad". Though that narcissistic way of opening articles is sadly common.

> I’ve watched group after group of people who want to play TTRPGs bounce off of D&D because its rules as written do not encourage them to do the exciting, creative storytelling they actually want to do! Instead it just hands them several dozen ways to kill a goblin, most of which end up feeling the same anyway.

...Weren't you going off about 4e? 

I would say some of the critiques are not well informed, and the framing of this article is steeped in TTRPG snobbery rather than the love of these kinds of games.

One can write about Lancer, without spending most of the article complaining about how her DM didn’t properly setup a combat encounter and her players were…

I think this quote gets at the heart of why I agree and disagree with Renata Price, “And I do not think the answer is blaming the DM for introducing Animated Armors too early, or the players for not coming up with creative solutions to the problem.”

“An attack roll is made up of your ability modifier, and your proficiency bonus (which at low levels is gonna be +2). If we’re assuming your character isn’t min-maxed, chances are your best attack modifier at Level 2 is gonna be a +3.”

I’m sorry, I know this isn’t the point of the article, but huh?

That’s not a matter…

You’re not going to get a bunch of dnd people to branch out by constantly insulting the game they already enjoy. 

I think any game that has to be so handholdy that your players can overcome not wanting to think tactically or outside their character sheet would just end up feeling like watching hours of Final Fantasy cutscenes as the dice railroad you through the adventure. If the argument against DnD is ‘we weren’t creative…

Way to yuck a LOT of other people’s yum.

This reads like a response to some of the commented criticism of your review of Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - and in fact in the comments of that article you got into it with some other poster on this topic.

You made comments yesterday regarding that a GM should just…

I don’t understand why these articles always attack D&D, it’s such a hostile tone for what should be a cool article. You could use this space to talk up cool other games but each other system gets like one sentence and you spend the majority of the article complaining about D&D.
Why can’t you just talk about what you…

And very wrong as well; so many misunderstandings of the basic D20 system 

I mean, they misunderstand basic rules about DnD that have been in RPG’s since 3rd ed, and in video games since we had accuracy.

This take is old and boring by now. 

I think this advice is great for people who are immersed in the TTRPG space, or who have players that already are interested and know what appeals to them in terms of rules and tone.

Seriously, she is the best character in Borderlands 2 which is saying something considering how good that game was.

Tiny Tina may be one of the absolute worst things about Borderlands

“Tiny Tina may be one of the absolute worst things about Borderlands”

Man, a lot of hate on this article. Should they never show something funny happening in Walmart, or post about any product made in China, or hell do any reporting at all since basically anything and everything is surrounded in corruption?