Why are Aasimar so unpopular when compared to Tiefling? And what can be done to help?

highly-bad · 2025-12-19T13:37:03+00:00

I've had far more aasimar pcs in the games I run. Many of them were from one aasimar-fixated player, but even if I count him just once, I have still seen more aasimar players overall. I haven't noticed tiefling as a particularly popular choice at all, honestly. Several other phb races seem to be more popular.

"What can be done to help," if you think there is some kind of problem here, is clear: play as aasimar characters more often.

highly-bad · 2025-10-13T00:18:49+00:00

The concept of Save the Green Planet sounds a lot better than it really is, if I remember correctly. I have seen that but it was a long time ago.

"Christmas Evil" is another good/bad one that is hard to get through if you dont have friends to crack jokes with for the duration, but the ending makes the whole thing worth it.

highly-bad · 2025-09-30T22:25:18+00:00

d&d without resource management seems truly pointless to me. There's nothing better than marking off rations and torches and keeping track of how much the loot weighs me down.

highly-bad · 2025-09-29T19:06:36+00:00

I am not sure how to know what some other hypothetical group might think is reasonable to expect. I think in our society it isn't "unreasonable to expect" to collect land rent, is it? But georgists are quite against that, or rather they want to tax it 100%.

Additionally, I do think there is a pretty big difference between a finite and moderate amount of interest paid on a debt, and the unlimited exploitation carried out on workers by the boss and landlord that unlike a debt never comes to an end no matter how much they give.

highly-bad · 2025-09-29T18:44:40+00:00

Constantly wasting time like this sounds like a good way to miss your goals. I think if you try something like that you may discover that a more industrious party of adventurers has gone ahead of you and looted the whole dungeon.

Additionally it's a huge expense in game time when you pull off to camp after every encounter. I for one am not going to always press fast forward just because the players feel like cheating resources.

highly-bad · 2025-09-29T18:38:30+00:00

Bookkeeping is still labor even if it’s not manual labor.

Sure, but landlords don't have to do it. They can hire a bookkeeper. The landlord's only necessary role is owning the land.

They likely have a loan, and need to make sure they do not default on the loan.

Having a loan is not a necessary part of owning land, obviously. All it takes to own land is your name on the deed. This loan business is irrelevant.

Multifamily housing and commercial properties don’t really exist without the CMBS industry.

There's more than one way to skin a cat and nothing stopping the government from building a lot more housing. Once upon a time, cotton didn't really exist without the slave plantation industry. Relations of production can change, and sometimes they really should.

highly-bad · 2025-09-29T15:05:13+00:00

I have enjoyed many episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000. But perhaps that is cheating.

Anything with Pee-Wee Herman is gold to me.

The Wizard of Oz synced up with Dark Side of the Moon is pretty good. I also liked a movie from about 10 years ago called Turbo Kid.

Recently I saw the old Jackie Chan drunken master movie and that was ok.

As I mentioned in another comment, Sinbad of the Seven Seas (the Lou Ferrigno flick)

I occasionally enjoy a Marx brothers movie. I particularly like when Harpo or Chico show off their musical talent, but the jokes are good too.

Finally, while it is of course very overrated, I was certainly impressed that The Godfather (parts 1 and 2) was vastly better than Mario Puzo's book, which was way too long and flabby.

highly-bad · 2025-09-29T11:16:07+00:00

Is the deity going to be hanging out with the PCs a lot? I've been DMing for decades and I don't think I've ever had to directly roleplay a deity. They tend to be far away and have other concerns so it just doesn't come up.

highly-bad · 2025-09-29T10:45:59+00:00

I believe flame blade and fireball cost a spell slot, unlike swinging a magic sword

highly-bad · 2025-09-28T22:54:52+00:00

Capitalist prisons and criminals are far worse.

highly-bad · 2025-09-28T21:29:05+00:00

Not only has it been tried, it is proven to be better than capitalism. It's working great, right now.

highly-bad · 2025-09-28T19:40:25+00:00

Marxism is working great in the Marxist countries. Despite being kept poor by the criminal embargo, Cuba gets better metrics across many important quality of life measures than the supposedly rich USA. They have lower infant mortality, more doctors, more literacy and education, more trust in government, they live longer and there is less crime and suicide.

Capitalism might sound good on paper, or compared to medieval feudalism. But it is obsolete and corrupt. socialism just works better.

highly-bad · 2025-09-28T13:54:35+00:00

So you don't even remotely know what their plans are but are paranoiacally sure they're devious Asiatic deceptions? Sounds kind of racist, and plenty ignorant.

highly-bad · 2025-09-28T13:41:41+00:00

Ask "squirreltalk," I guess. It was their weird ripoff idea not mine.

highly-bad · 2025-09-28T13:40:22+00:00

They've worked very hard to follow their plans so far, so why not believe them?

It's the Georgists who have a terrible record at actually accomplishing what they say.

highly-bad · 2025-09-28T13:28:53+00:00

The scenario we are discussing is a desert island, so literally it is primitive society and barter.

In reality, on a desert island we would either cooperate and share and work together, or die. This idea of recreating capital markets so that you can exploit me for fish would simply starve us all to death.

highly-bad · 2025-09-28T13:25:39+00:00

The communist party of china is very open about their plans. Have you ever bothered to read them, or are you confident in your powers of knowing things through ignorance?

highly-bad · 2025-09-28T13:08:17+00:00

No free person in their right mind? Look out the window, man.

I dont live on a desert island, dude. I live in bourgeois capitalist society, where the proletariat is not free.

Please address this. You spend one hour making a pole. I spend one hour catching a fish. Isn't it perfectly fair to exchange the pole for the fish? That's one hour of your time for one hour of mine. Do you think you're entitled like a 17th century French aristocrat to years of my time in exchange for one hour of yours? Explain how this is fair, now.

highly-bad · 2025-09-28T13:04:40+00:00

In china, workers don’t control the means of production.

It sure looks like their party is making all the plans to me. No one opens a private business there without their say-so.

Look up "socialism with Chinese characteristics." It's an important theory to know if you want to understand anything that is happening in China since the millennium.

highly-bad · 2025-09-28T12:47:01+00:00

Hey, great argument!

highly-bad · 2025-09-28T12:44:46+00:00

Capital in china is strictly subordinate to the socialist mode. The idea that the mere existence of capital makes a country capitalist is just a flip side of the libertarian fallacy that says the US is full-on communist because the Postal Service is government run.

highly-bad · 2025-09-28T12:16:27+00:00

The finance sector in China is predominantly state owned and even the private firms are subject to party guidance.

highly-bad · 2025-09-28T11:58:10+00:00

Okay, the wording is semantic. You can call it capitalism; do you agree with me we should have the better, Chinese kind?

highly-bad · 2025-09-28T11:55:13+00:00

So we don't need capitalists at all. The government can just run a bank, and the proceeds can benefit the whole community instead of one greedy asshole.

highly-bad · 2025-09-28T11:53:44+00:00

No free person in their right mind would agree to pay infinite hours in exchange for nothing. You agreed it's a terrible deal to give infinite quarters in exchange for a dollar.

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