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Even now, there's differences in intelligence between races.

They got rid of that in 5.5e. They also made the orcs Mexican for some reason

My current character is a somewhat generic human fighter. It's going well.

Disney has had to deal with waves of competitors in animation and eras where they were the only game in town. If anything, now is one of the more competitive eras.

I would also note that a large part of building Anime as an industry was a combination of crunch time and using methods to reduce the cost of animation.

A rogue makes a very poor tank compared to other classes.

I'd argue you could map Bilbo into a multiclass rogue and bard to get spells like Vicious Mockery. Bilbo's main actions in "combat" include stealth checks, sneak attacks with Sting, stealing items, and using bardic spells to manipulate the situation for his benefit.

Bilbo was a commoner who was hired as a burglar.

Except that no one starts out a campaign as commoner, but as a class. If you are going to put Bilbo into any D&D class, it is rogue.

In regards to the Rogue being a skill monkey, it really depends on what skills are needed. I'm in a campaign now where the druid's skills are far more important than the rogue's skills. There are a variety of campaigns you can make where rogue isn't the one with the important set of skills. Hell, detect magic is incredibly useful and something a rogue can't naturally learn.

In regards to being the face, there are several classes that have various face skills. The only real thing that Rogues have over other classes is Thieves' Cant, which other classes can now learn as a language.

I also wouldn't put the rogue as a front line fighter. They pump out damage, but so do a lot of other classes.

It depends. I'm playing at a table where it isn't any of the players' first game and several players have wargaming experience. I can easily see the DM doing something like this and I wouldn't fault them for doing so.

A lot of people get success through dumb luck.

She also wrote something that felt resonant and in a manner where the flawed logic of her universe doesn't make itself readily apparent, which takes some skill.

Part of the problem in creating a canonical universe over a piece of fiction is that it takes a lot more thought to create the world and few people who can create that world can write compelling stores in said world. She wrote a compelling story. That said, a lot of writers can compelling stores that don't get the kind of press that Harry Potter did.

TERF Queen wrote the series in Edinburgh and is thought to be inspired by the local architecture in creating Hogwarts.

I had a character like that. He was a never nude and reasons for him being so were built into his character.

Better than ice cream.