This does seem to start falling pretty heavily into something very close to the MST3K mantra with the note that this was a highschool game.
If someone wants to say ‘this is a great insight which demonstrates the value of diverse viewpoints!’, it’d better be a great insight, and not one that fails multiple ways.
Well, how much would killing the dark elves have helped either? In the context we have two proposed solutions, neither of which really actually does much. One of the solutions is arguably obvious to the traditional male gamer, and the other (which makes about as much or as little sense) does seem to show some degree of diverse viewpoint arguably (although as I commented above, I don’t think this one is really gendered related as much as it is to bad DMing).
Well, how much would killing the dark elves have helped either?
It is specified the dark elves are the entire problem. The crops are now not being planted or tended because the dark elves are raiding and there weren’t raids before. I uh can’t see how killing them would not help.
If the farmers already are emaciated they aren’t going to be able to survive that long even if they do plow and plant (it takes a long time). Moreover, plowing takes a lot of effort. The most likely result if they do kill the dark elves in a marginally realistic situation is that the farmers will still starve. The whole situation is poorly thought out (and becomes even more poorly thought out as the DM claims that the farmers don’t even have functioning farm equipment and thus that the dark elves aren’t the only problem).
It seems obvious to me that even if many had died in the famine, not all would have. Once the famine was over there still wouldn’t be any dark elves causing them problems. Also a good way to help them is to share some of the stuff you looted from the dark elves.
If someone wants to say ‘this is a great insight which demonstrates the value of diverse viewpoints!’, it’d better be a great insight, and not one that fails multiple ways.
Well, how much would killing the dark elves have helped either? In the context we have two proposed solutions, neither of which really actually does much. One of the solutions is arguably obvious to the traditional male gamer, and the other (which makes about as much or as little sense) does seem to show some degree of diverse viewpoint arguably (although as I commented above, I don’t think this one is really gendered related as much as it is to bad DMing).
It is specified the dark elves are the entire problem. The crops are now not being planted or tended because the dark elves are raiding and there weren’t raids before. I uh can’t see how killing them would not help.
If the farmers already are emaciated they aren’t going to be able to survive that long even if they do plow and plant (it takes a long time). Moreover, plowing takes a lot of effort. The most likely result if they do kill the dark elves in a marginally realistic situation is that the farmers will still starve. The whole situation is poorly thought out (and becomes even more poorly thought out as the DM claims that the farmers don’t even have functioning farm equipment and thus that the dark elves aren’t the only problem).
It seems obvious to me that even if many had died in the famine, not all would have. Once the famine was over there still wouldn’t be any dark elves causing them problems. Also a good way to help them is to share some of the stuff you looted from the dark elves.
And delicious dark elves.
I had a character who was famous for his kobold stew. I bet elf tastes like pork.
If humans are ‘long pork’, and elves stereotypically taller than humans, does that make elf ‘longer pork’?