I would assume if he is you’ll see plenty of talk on the other forums that pride themselves on discussing politics
He is, and rob has said 2e wouldnt be without him. He's writing some parts with rob and then he's back to not being involved anymore.
Surely if he had actually been cancelled, he wouldn't be involved at all, rather than... being involved. He's just being worked with less.
*shrug* I assume Pelgrane wanted to make part duex, rob said I need Johnathon, they said no, he said well no part deux, they looked at pocket books, they said ok, well maybe once. I just know what they put out when they announced when they were doing it and the very tiny amount of outrage because most of the 13th age fans could not give less of a shit I think.
I haven't kept up with news since I have all the 1st edition books and don't need another edition, but the main ones I remember being announced were more talents/abilities/spells for everyone, better rules for the icons, backwards compatibility, removal of the term "race," and an improved fighter class. That was from the announcement a year or so ago, so there is probably more info out there if you search for it.
I get that people hate the use of “race” to describe non-human sentients these days, but I’ve never seen anything that feels natural as a replacement.
For me “kin” means family, more or less. So not really the same thing.
I agree this will become far more common, as it helps avoid modern conflicts. Despite being mouthfuls, ancestry and heritage are my favorites here. They are most accurate. Ancestry might be the most accurate.
I totally agree.
Yeah I think once the dust settles, we'll probably see 'Ancestry' as the most likely replacement of 'Race' as a combined Species & Culture analogy
I also think that the cancel Jonathon Tweet thing was basically due to a misunderstanding so will probably get quietly forgotten anyway.
We were never at war with Eurasia.Well at a cursory glance the only people really talking about are you folks here. There’s no mention of it on the En World thread.
I think it's already starting to be that thing that happened in the early 2020s.
As the person who raised it - I'm glad to hear that! I'm a big fan of Tweet as a designer, and he's always struck me as just a bit of a harmless old hippie. He has some weird views, but frankly, who cares.Well at a cursory glance the only people really talking about are you folks here
This whole obsession with cancel culture has to be one of the worst things about our modern media.
Merry Christmas, there are 23 pages here including responses from Tweet himself
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Not that I mind race, but ancestry is the one that seems to fit better in my head.
Merry Christmas, there are 23 pages here including responses from Tweet himself
Pelgrane Press disassociates Jonathan Tweet from 13th Age/Pelgrane | Dungeons & Dragons / Fantasy D20 Spotlight
(he had made some... rather bad comments on twitter recently)
Or you can watch him in an interview about it
it gets interesting when we talk about things that are clearly the same species and are affected by their environment differently. Think Belters vs Martians vs Earthers in The Expanse. The notion of ancestry or species doesn't quite fit there, and yet their environment they've adapted for is an important distinction. Race is wildly inaccurate. Kith, for all of them, might be the best, as they are related but different.
"Kin" would be my pick, because I feel it scales better both locally ("This is Angela, she is my kin") and globally ("Lizardmen and kobolds are both examples of dragonkin") and the word has a good fantasy mouthfeel to it. I'd be inclined to spell it kyn but there's a reason I'm not paid to write this shit.
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