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Must be nice. Full price movie tickets in Japan have been over twenty bucks for twenty years.

That’s my point. A lot of what you are saying is truly different. Yes. Absolutely. But it is really hard to show that difference. I mean, sure your cell phone is different but it’s still a cell phone. Sure cars are different but on the outside not hugely different. Houses haven’t changed all...

Monsters do not use pc rules. Quoting the monster manual in a discussion about pc classes and races doesn’t matter. Pc psionics are magic and use spell components.

Other than sharing a name, the Texas Rangers have virtually nothing to do with the class. And frankly have very few connotations outside of the US. And very few negative ones as well. So I’m obviously missing your point then. It is impossible to claim that there is one and only one source of...

But rangers are the aragorn class. Full stop. They don't have any historical connotations. Paladins most certainly DO.

That would certainly be the other way to go. And, there are positives and negatives of both approaches. But, I was more responding to the idea that races need mechanical heft in order to be important in the game. That by going the simpler route that WotC is taking with simply choosing one or...

Well, 22 years isn’t that long. Sigh. I mean I look at pictures of the town I live in from 22 years ago when I first moved here and now, and it’s not like it’s totally I recognizable. I read once that 20 year future fiction is one of the hardest things to write in SF. It’s just different...

Oh no. I totally agree. I think that the current iteration of the paladin has largely left most of the problems behind and give it a few more iterations and they’ll be gone completely.

Of course. There is nothing “mere” about aesthetics. Look at the number of posts about a wizard wearing glasses. :) But when the aesthetic is strongly grounded in a particular era and evoking a particular theme, of course they can be questioned and criticized. Remember the troubadour hadozee?

I think you’re right. There’s a couple of magic items. But the point does stand. Despite alignment having nearly zero mechanical impact, it still remains important for how a player portrays a character.

All literary things are chains. They are all influenced by what came before and they in turn influence what comes after. Nothing in literature exists in a vacuum. That's the point of discussing and critiquing these things - to illuminate where the ideas come from and how they are changing...

And rangers were straight up Aragorn. It's not 1977 anymore.

But on the point about mechanics matter. To me, species should largely go the same route as alignment. After all, while alignment has zero mechanical impact in 5e, it does have a significant impact on play. Someone playing a LG fighter is going to play that character differently than a CE...

And not every spell requires a component. But, psionic spells, in the rules, do. @Yaarel is mistaken that 5e is somehow removing spell components from the game.

@roger semerad - that is very healthy advice. Really, no one is going to convince others of their POV. This is all connotative anyway, so, it's very fluid. What connotations one person sees, another completely doesn't. Is the dress blue and black or white and gold, to use a somewhat old...

So now those that interpret differently than you are just too stupid to understand how alignment works? That’s certainly a take. As I said, one of the best things 5e did was make alignment entirely a flavor thing with no mechanical impact. But as far as the op goes, I do believe that this...

Not a biologist here. Aren't most vertebrate hybrids sterile?

Again, though, you're ignoring a LOT of representations of the Paladin. It's more than just Three Hearts and Three Lions. After all, 3H&3L isn't written in a vacuum. The ideas in the novel were also influenced by culture of the time. You can't just claim a single source and then expect...

One of the most eye opening experiences I had about alignment was during 3e, years ago. I got a new player at my table and he plonked down his new character (I forget what class now, doesn't really matter). The character was Chaotic Neutral. I raised an eyebrow or two, mostly because this was...

That has not been my experience. Most players will lean pretty hard into their backgrounds - be it a criminal background which gets referenced often at the table when the old lady monk talks about her mis-spent youth, or the con-artist barbarian trying to con an organization into giving her...