I read once that the earliest edition(s?) didn’t have Rogue as a separate class, that everyone would be searching for traps and such. And when Rogue was added with the explicit ability to detect traps, it caused a crises because suddenly that implied that no one else had that ability.

It’s the cats you gotta worry about.

You absolutely do not have to RP this. You can say “No.” You can say “Ok, you go off and do that, what’s everyone else doing?”

I once doodled my Paladin’s full plate as including a chastity belt with a big ol’ padlock

They’re willing to ignore the criticism of facism in exchange for a chance to roleplay being a space nazi.

“I liked rage against the machine before they got all political”