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I said my argument was not based on any "long standing custom or general consensus"; i.e. it was not a prescriptive one like you claimed. But truth based. But if you want to go there: Do a search on this or any other D&D related forum. Find me the discussion thread outside of this topic where...

Except that my premise is not prescriptive; It is not based on some long standing custom or general consensus. It is that of the objective truth. Factually verified by the artist himself: "I recently was asked a question about the Ancient Red painting I did for the cover of the Red Box...

I completely reject this revisionist premise. Because it is simply not true. This is basically like trying to tell everyone that saw the painting over the past 40 years that their own two eyes lied to them. But they didn't. As Elmore stated; there was never any question that the Warrior was...

It's exclusionary precisely because it was not done for "greater diversity of representation" at all. Wizkids/Wotc had at least two other female characters straight out of the red box to pick from, but they intentionally chose not to: The ham-fisted gender swapping of the iconic front cover...

That's all I've been saying. People that claim that these style of actual plays are "scripted" do not understand what they are looking at. Like I said; The popular actual plays are a modern improv version of the old-style radio plays, for RPG fans. They need to be actually playing the game...

Video games are still apples to oranges. Because unless you are specifically running a mod; You are playing the exact same game, in the exact same way. Once you look past the obvious similarities; The differences between what the popular 'table top' actual play shows are doing, and what home...

I stand by my statement of it being an apples to oranges comparison. And that better analogy in my opinion is that TTRPG Actual Plays are to Home games in the same way that P*rn is to S*x. Acquisitions Incorporated may not have "professional voice actors", but the payers are filling the same...

There is truth to the perfect being the enemy of the good. And 5e has certainly hit a "Good Enough" threshold for lots of people.

Agreed. "Good" is only a consideration insomuch that the game meets a threshold of "Good Enough". So long as the game mechanics are Good Enough to not lose its current popularity, improvement in terms of 'good' game design is irrelevant to the playtest goals. Mostly due to the playerbase...

Because athletic ability aside, what you see on the amatuer high school field/courts is the same game as the one the professionals play. Just with bleachers and parents Iphones taking the place of a stadium and broadcast cameras... I really think that comparing TTRPG actual plays to stick and...

I think that these kind of actual plays get a lot of flack because the shows are not reflective of home games. But that's not their purpose. They are a modern improv version of the old-style radio plays, for RPG fans. And they certainly have enough of a following to keep filling some fairly...

Unless I sorely miss my guess; That is the official answer. Non-committal corporate speak that hits that totally not a real answer vague sweet-spot. Seems about right to me...

Exactly, and Lasik is not a cure all… And a magic fix from a fantasy world that can literally raise the dead vs. fallible IRL options is an apples to oranges comparison.