{"id":171,"date":"2018-04-10T10:24:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T15:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/?p=171"},"modified":"2018-04-10T10:24:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T15:24:09","slug":"retconning-elves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/2018\/04\/10\/retconning-elves\/","title":{"rendered":"Retconning Elves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many fans of fantasy roleplaying I&#8217;ve been hearing about Wizards of the Coast&#8217;s latest controversy (will they ever run out of them?). In the ramp up for the release of Mordenkainen&#8217;s Tome of Foes for D&amp;D 5th edition they&#8217;ve announced sex changing elves to stand in solidarity with the non binary crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than sharing my thoughts on this I&#8217;m going to link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.menofthewest.net\/dd-retcons-elves-virtue-signal-harder\/\">a post on Men of the West<\/a> where Boethius discusses the details and what they mean.\u00a0 He explains things more elegantly that I could.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many fans of fantasy roleplaying I&#8217;ve been hearing about Wizards of the Coast&#8217;s latest controversy (will they ever run out of them?). In the ramp up for the release of Mordenkainen&#8217;s Tome of Foes for D&amp;D 5th edition they&#8217;ve announced sex changing elves to stand in solidarity with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8,6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}