Everyone is Wrong on the Internet

If you're unfamiliar with the dragoonboob controversy I suggest reading the following threads (if you want your head to explode).

• Dragonborn Anatomy
• The boobie vote
• [Race] Dragonboronbs.
• Really, the dragonboobs aren't that bad.
• Dragonboobs don't make sense
• Drawing female Dragonborn: Mamaries or no?
• Female Dragonborn - No longer have breasts?
• We Want Dragonborn To Look Like This
• Please excuse the breasts
• Dragonborn: Boobs or No Boobs? (consolidated ENworld Megathread)

And ofcourse you can't have a giant internet flamewar without metacontroversy threads.

• Petition: For Ban on Discussion of Dragonboobs
• Ban Dragonboobs Posts

Let me see if I can summarize for you:

1. WTF? Lizards don't have boobs. It's not realistic. I'm right because I'm smarter than you.
2. OMG! It's a game it doesn't have to be realistic, and I'm right because I'm smarter than you.
3. STFU retard! Dragonborn aren't lizards they're mammals with scales.
   
4. QFT. I don't have anything meaningful to add but I like to look smart by block quoting someone else's entire post, the bigger the better.
5. LOL! If they are mammals then why do the lay eggs. I'm so much smarter than you.
6. OMG! They aren't lizards! They are people created by the dragon gods, therefore boobs are more realistic. Why is my head starting to hurt?
7. Counter LOL! Everheard of the platapus dumbass? You are so not smarter than me.
8. OMG STFU! No one cares, if you don't like dragonboobs don't play with them, but I'm right becuase I know a girl who agrees with me. You idiots are giving me a headache.
9. WTF? Do you even know what you're babbeing about? All the girls I know are totally ofended by dragontits and are refusing to even play 4.0 because of it. It's you thats making my head hurt.
10. LOL! You guys are so stupid, obviously dragonborn have boobs becuas... oh my god the pain, the pain!
11. BOOM!!
12. Splat!
13. Drip.
14. OMG! That is so gross my brains are everywhere!
15. WTF? This must be a punishment from god for you being so stupid.
16. STFU! It was your stupid arguments that blew our heads up! I'm right becuase 30% of my frontal lobe is still connected to my brain stem.
17. LOL! I know a brain surgeon and he says our heads blew up because of too much direct sunlight.
18. Counter LOL! Well I'm a neurologist and I can tell you there is no way any of you guys are right. Dragonborn have boobs for artistic reasons.

This gem is actually a response to a longer post titled The Demise of Dungeons & Dragons

http://www.gamegrene.com/node/20?fro...ts_per_page=70

Eric Hansen — Tue, 2000-08-15 14:51

Rabbitman [original poster], you are right on! WOTC has degraded one of the boundary breaking FRPG's into nothing more than a kiddie game and math class! WOTC is the Disney of RPG companies with its retooling of the world to make it acceptable and politically correct for everyone! Everyone can be a Paladin now. Everyone can be a 99999999999999999th level elf now. Noone need hear the word 'thief' in D&D discussion. Don't worry fighters, you'll advance just as fast as wizards and rogues now. What? Game balance has been destroyed? D&D 3e is nothing more than an RPG video game played on paper? Other than the absence of ability pre-requisites and fun, our game mechanic resembles Palladium's FRPG almost exactly? Our core base of fans that have been with us for twenty years+ feel alienated? Thanks Rabbitman for not being afraid of the Wizards of the Coast who are devouring what is left of the gaming world.

Adventurers unable to make ends meet.

So I recently saw the following on the Gleenmax forums:

The economic rules as written (note the key words) are flawed

I'm proud to say that I managed to not read the thread (the temptation was very strong but I knew how it was going to end). But I did skip to the end and add a concern of my own about the new rules.

The farming rules are also completely unworkable. I mean how are my characters supposed to eat when it is impossible to grow food?

I'm going to leave aside my various problems with invoking “rules as written” and just focus on trying to make D&D into a system for all possibilities. I mean even gurps (which has detailed rules for how much money people earn from their day jobs) does not attempt to address the economy beyond: How much does stuff cost? And how much money do I have? Which I feel is exactly the point to end your simulation.

I was going to bitch about people making other stupid demands of a game system, but I've suddenly decided that it would be more fun to list all the economic questions I (or my friends) have had to consider in a game. At least the funny ones anyway.

Q: What is the cost of enough food to acquire the perfect loyalty of an impoverished street orphan?
A: Pretty damn cheap.

Q: What is worth more $4 million in small bills or limitless hookers and booze?
A:If you do it right the hookers and booze.

Q: What is an appropriate bribe for an ancient dragon accustomed to the worship of a long dead pre-Columbian civilization?
A: All the Nazis it can eat.

Q: How long before secretly buying the inn and charging the other characters for rooms turns a profit?
A: In money? Never.
A: In joy? Immediately.

I would like to point out that “Can I get a 10% discount on a +3 longsword of quick draw?” is not and never will be on that list.