It is a fantastic dress indeed.
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Fantasy related peeve.
So I was looking at some Skyrim modding videos since itâs been a while since Todd had me in his clutches and while most of what I saw was good, something really struck the peeve bone.
A video had a segment on how they used a mod to turn Skyrim dragons into âreal dragons 
â and they used that stupid D&D classification that made the rounds on Reddit a few years ago as evidence. The D&D classifications that have no basis on mythology. The D&D classifications that reddity losers use to go âheh⌠well, AKSHULLY thatâs a wyvern⌠heh⌠gotcha⌠I am very intelligent.â
If thatâs the classification you want to use in your own works, go right ahead. But itâs weird when people try to use this as a âgotchaâ on people, as if D&D is the arbiter of what fantasy can and canât be.
Itâs one of those things thatâs dying out and more people are saying âno thatâs just from a D&D handbookâ, but I swear a few years back youâd be hit by like twenty videos saying âX FRANCHISE DRAGONS NOT REAL DRAGONS!â if you looked up anything fantasy related.
Itâs pretty much like saying âX franchiseâs spiders arenât real spiders. No relation to Ungoliant? Yet she was the first giant spider. Thatâs a different franchise? No, no. Middle Earth lore applies to everything else, silly. Next youâll tell me the first Orcs in this world werenât Elves corrupted by Morgoth!â
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you can just say telaryn you know
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I hate that so much.
They are fantasy creatures.
If in my fantasy story, the only difference between a dragon and a cat is one breathed fire than thatâs a dragon regardless of what some nerd on Reddit said.
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D&D dragons are distinctly feline with scales. What does this tell us?
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I am literally against this
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Because I want mogs that are higher level, though I should just take what I can get now and get more transmog in the future.
He was 110 so 45 now.
this is true, except you are very intelligent
:3
clearly you donât know me very well
He isnât. Heâs just pretty, so we believe what he says.
take the compliment, you butt >:(
Which ones? Shadowlands leather stuff?
i donât appreciate baseless accusations of being intelligent
you have no idea how dumb i am
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Today on Cro in an area theyâre not supposed to be in looking for mad drip;
The Nameless White Masks bleed very quickly with double +4 Reduvia and 25 arcane.
Kali gets to be the surgeon she always dreamed of being.
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Various odds and ends from MoP all the way through BofA. Iâve been eyeing the tier set from HFC for a while but that should be soloable at 50, if not even 45
D&D and Tolkien have had devastating consequences on the fantasy genre.
Thankfully it is healing a little with everyone making up new names for their own spins on the generic elf trope (though often ending up with, yâknow, the standard D&D or Tolkien elves, just renamed).
Elves in Estonian are just protective spirits of buildings, or spirits of some nature object/phenomenon. Once a soul separated from the object, the elves became spirits whoâd care and protect said object. Typically in our mythology, many knew of sea/house/forest/yard (etc.) elves, some of whom would become deities youâd make sacrifices for good luck/harvest and so on.
Then Christianity came and turned those elves into evil beings, while the protective/positive parts of the elves were carried over onto Christian Saints. 
Honestly, Witcher 3 was great because it broke away from the traditional western fantasy tropes and had slavic mythology instead, which youâd rarely see before. Now I just gotta make a game out of my own culture instead. 
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tells us that me writing a book about the only difference between dragons and cats being one can breathe fire is very close to DnD anyway.
Well, youâd be able to wear em. So if worst comes to worse, get someone to go with you.
While I canât speak for D&D, given that I havent played those actual tabletop games, but, why would you say Tolkien has had a devestating consequence on the fantasy genre? If anything, the man made sure that more people came to know of it and inspired other authors to make works of their own. Lord of the Rings is definetly how I got interested in the whole fantasy-genre, warcraft included.
I will admit, this one is true, though, not all of the mythology in that game was slavic, was it? The Wild Hunt for instance seems to feature in other mythology as well? Also I loved turning the botchling into a lubberkin, a small spirit protecting the house.
Mind you though I am not very knowledgable on mythology so I canât argue the finer details 
In 3.5 DnD there was a race of small humanoids similar to halflings called Tibbits who had the ability to change into housecats at will. Now obviously this limited some of their fighting capabilities, but there were a few classes which werenât affected by it. One of them was the Dragonfire Adept, a class based entirely around breath weapons.
âFire-breathing catâ was therefore not merely a possible character build in that edition, but an easily viable one.