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It is not divisive to tell WotC they shouldn't trash the names of D&D's creators. Link to the video in the reply below.
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Dumb? He could speak many languages and bested ancient sorcerers. Read actual Howard stories.
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You are a grifter and an extortionist and provide no net benefit to the hobby.
I must say, the responses to my thread showed that D&D truly really is for everyone. I appreciate everyone's positivity! It's so important for us to speak up, call for change, and support each other.
The toxic members of the community are VERY loud, but small in number.
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I'm OK with changing Dungeon Master to something else. Like say, Dungeon Manager. But players that choose to use this term must no longer be called players. They must instead be called "Karens" & every request of the DM must start with, "I'd like to speak to the Dungeon Manager."
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"Random encounters are dumb. You are just telling me a monster appears?"
Meanwhile, this.
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My favorite thing so far in dealing with these weasels in the TTRPG hobby regarding WotC and Gygax is that they insult you right away, and when you give the heat back, they pearl clutch. "Well I never! I just wanted to have a conversation with you."
No, you didn't. If you wanted that, you would talk to me like a human, not as some comic villain right at the start.
The sad part is that I think these idiots are so conditioned they don't even realize how insufferable they are in social situations. They have been allowed for too long to behave this way. The kindest thing to do for them is not to let them get away with it anymore.
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Ah so the Fighter on the Red Box cover is now female and I'm told it has "always been this way" by supporters of this (what I think it is) change. Personally, I'm not so sure.
Especially since the original image was intended to be a full party fighting a dragon. This party already included a female magic-user blasting the dragon. This version was rejected by Gary who wanted to zoom in on the fighter and the dragon only.
I don't know, I think you are stretching to claim this is how it always was given that fact. I don't like much of this culture war stuff these days. It's annoying. But I love D&D and I love respecting this older stuff. Plus, women shouldn't be thrilled with pandering, patronizing, and repurposed scraps which... I'll be honest, that is what is happening here. But that's just my two cents. But I guess it's a good thing I don't like WizKid miniatures and just do theater of the mind these days Haha.
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Honestly, Sly Flourish should be embarrassed, in my opinion. The TTRPG bubble is going to burst soon, and if you are writing like this, you should be worried.
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Why are these people in this hobby if it's so bad? They make it sound like we are having clan meetings every week when we game.
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I don't generally like speaking on political stuff anymore, but I can't help but feel that shooting and killing the one guy who was willing to hear out the other side and talk, signals that parlaying is now over...
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"I really despise the model train hobby and its roots and origins. Guess I'll make model trains my personality and profession and write historical books about the model train hobby because I hate it."
This is most of the "D&D historians" out there. My dudes, this isn't healthy.
I don't get why people who hate D&D bother writing books about it or being in this space to begin with. Just leave already if it's so evil.
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The full context of the quote is below.
What I sense from Gygax is extreme sarcasm directed at people who, much like today, make such demands (and are never satisfied) that are not worth taking seriously. Given that Gary hired many women at TSR (one did the layout for the 3LBBs), this is clearly Gary looking at these casuals and tourists in the hobby and mocking them to their faces (as is appropriate).
The proper response to clowns who make absurd demands of you is to treat them like the clowns they are. Plain and simple.
D&D Co-Creator Gary Gygax was Sexist. Talking About it is Key to Preserving his Legacy.
“Damn right I am a sexist. It doesn’t matter to me if women get paid as much as men… They can jolly well stay away from wargaming in droves for all I care.”
-Gary Gygax, EUROPA 10/11, 1975
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One of the first D&D players in Arneson's Blackmoor campaign was a woman. These people that just started playing D&D 2 years ago because of Critical Role and the pandemic who claim they are making it diverse are like Jennifer Lawrence claiming she's the first female action start.
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Nah, you guys showed your true colors. No one will trust you ever again. Actions have consequences.
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I blocked every single one of these activists. Close the gates. Lock them tight. Keep the hobby about games and games only.
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My advice is don't listen to this guy and do what you think is fun for your game. Go play AD&D oriental adventures. You will have fun.
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Most of the "D&D historians" saying silly things about how older modules or editions are racist and bigoted, are not historians but journos role-playing as historians. If you look at it all as such, it all makes sense.
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Being wheelchair bound hasn't stopped her from skipping leg day. What's everyone else's excuse?
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This is an obstacle I knew would come about from my kickstarter. Yes I have the "correct" ancestry however I don't think it matters. The content of the thing matters. I spent two years researching this. That's what has given me the right to make this, not the blood in my veins.
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People like this need to just go do activism. Vacate the hobby and take your politicization with you. No one wants your bullshit here. We want good games.
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Bwahaha. They turned off replies. This thread did not go the way they planned. Huge white pill for the hobby. This kind of behavior will not be tolerated by hobbyists.
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For the record, you level up in Macuahuitl by capturing foes for sacrifices or slavery. You get more XP. Hearts for XP. Because that was the culture of the Aztecs. I hate seeing Gary and other creators thrown under the bus for themes that are honestly tame compared to the historical game I wrote and released. This attempt to make artistic endeavors palpable to the weakest, softest, least virtuous, and least creative members of society is bad for real creativity and the arts. Stop crying and let creative people tackle complex subjects without imputing bad motives.
If these screeching morons who pretend they are virtuous had read any of Appendix N, they would see Gary and crew were attempting to simulate a specific setting in the pulps, much like how I tried to do with a historical setting in Macuahuitl. Never cave to soft, weak, pathetic cowards who want to pretend they are virtuous. I will not celebrate sterility in a creative sphere under the false cover of "inclusivity." Such people can go pound sand.
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Me watching @Wizards_DnD get eaten alive by the people they have been trying to pander to.
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They do this because they reject abstract universals. I think I am right about it here in this video. Materialistic presuppositions are why they can't see the dungeon as the mythical underworld and why they see gnolls, not as monsters representing abstract ideas, but as mapped on to real people.
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I made a little comic about the general interaction with Rule Zero enjoyers in pen-and-paper RPGs. Everytime. It's like this everytime.
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It might come as a shocker but not everything needs to use 5e under the hood. Play other games.
No you should not use #DnD 5E for cyberpunk. The cyberpunk anime is based on the world and system created by R Talsorian.
Get Cyberpunk Red instead. It’s tailor made for the very world it created! (Funny how that works)
It’s just better. (^_−)−☆
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"The dungeon generator doesn't make dungeons that makes sense."
Meanwhile tunnels in real life:
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Just another reminder: if you need art, I'm your guy. I'm busy, but can squeeze in commissions for sure.
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I don't get why people who hate D&D bother writing books about it or being in this space to begin with. Just leave already if it's so evil.
Ever notice how Lolth, the chaotic evil queen of the spiders, goddess to the all-evil “black” elves, looks African-American on the cover of 1986’s Queen of the Spiders?
Again, D&D links dark skin/African features to evil.
So the changes in 2024 D&D were very much needed.
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I don't want to just complain about AI slop, I want to do something about it and give a solution. This is it. Link below.
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Me: RoP is an abomination and pollution of Tolkien's work. It's complete trash and no, I won't watch it or give it a shot.
RoP Apologists:
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I never have a problem with an empty table. My current campaign is well over a year into it and my AD&D1e game is past the 6 sessions where this dude's probably end.
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How to save the hobby and gatekeep the bad actors out:
✅ Use 3d6 down the line
✅ Gold for XP
✅ Use race as class or class restrictions for demihumans
✅ Death at 0 HP.
✅ Level caps for Demi-humans
✅ Play any edition of D&D pre WotC
✅ Use descending AC
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🧵I was very involved in libertarian activist circles from about 2012 - 2022. In all that time, I never made as many enemies or met as many weak and soft yet insufferable people as I have in the online TTRPG sphere. That says a hell of a lot about the hobby.
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Paizo is just as bad as WotC? This isn't news. Yes, if Paizo had the power and pull of WotC, they would do the same things as them. This isn't news. We have known this for years and years. Meanwhile, my video today is all about getting all the benefits of tokens and maps in Foundry VTT while still being able to zero prep. That's news!
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I think this 100% has to do with the modern view and expectation of what a "good game" is. The expectation is that the DM is there to serve and entertain the players. That the DM must provide some kind of epic story for the main characters (the players to take part in.
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A player consented to have all that "hard work thrown away" when hit points were written down on a character sheet. This is why only some groups get past session 6.
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"Guys (white guys) like me can't leave the hobby soon enough." - Kyle Brink, @Wizards_DnD executive producer.
Hey, my stuff is out there if you want games without political posturing. WotC doesn't want your business, I'll take it and I have no desire to shame you.
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So, I am in fact working on a 5e clone. Why? Well I see WotC and Kobold Press doubling down on everything that breaks 5e and not accentuating what is good while properly being informed by what came before. I have 59 pages down and a ton of art and have been posting updates on my Patreon, Guilded supporters sections, and Youtube members section. The clone is called Wyrd Wyrms 5e. Below is the cover art which supporters have already seen.
My vision is to go a totally different way than these other big design by committee games go. Mine is informed by the old way while still being 5e as well. So if that interests you, you can support the work on Patreon, Guilded, or Youtube.
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WTF is this? I used to work as a barista, why the hell would I want to play this? Who is this for? WotC has lost the plot. #DnD #strixhaven
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Today's stream was fun. I'm glad one guy decided to show up and lie in the chat, claiming that Gary made rules where women have a lower intelligence than men. No such rule exists and we showed that on stream. His soy response was, "well the strongest woman in the world is stronger than you!"
Pathetic.
Then another guy was trying to tell me that because women in Aztec society sometimes defended their homes against the Spanish, I have to have a female warrior class in Macuahuitl. This is why Gygax made that very sarcastic remark in that Europa issue in 1975 about being sexist. Because spindly-arm, slack-jawed manlets like this exist and make demands of creatives.
Go. Pound. Sand.
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Macuahuitl: Whitebox Roleplaying in the Aztec Empire
Sign up on the prelaunch page to be notified when the campaign goes live! #TTRPG #DnD #Aztec #OSR
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Spent the evening reading castles and Crusades. The more and more I read it. The more I like it. Going to run a game of it soon finally.
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Most of the people angry about Gygax's comments are the same people saying it was bad the Hadozee lore was racist and offensive and yet celebrate Orcs being Mexican now. The rules of social acceptability these people want us to follow are so arbitrary and dumb that their opinions mean nothing to me.
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A lot problems in the hobby could be solved if a majority of the guys in the TTRPG sphere were not seemingly allergic to barbells.
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"The dungeon needs an ecology" is the secularization of the underworld. Instead of a realm of spiritual powers in Tartarus /Hades/Sheol/Hell being invaded by the heroes, it is a place we can explain via science. The Enlightenment and its consequences strike again.
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An example of how the shill media works. If D&D or SW engaged in making long time fans happy, there would be no controversy in either of of these fandoms. They have catered to people that don't care about these IPs and alienated the people that do and then claim "fanservice."
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I oppose the OGL. I'm not white. I'm not a bigot. I just dont want people like you approving what I can create in this hobby. It's funny how you shit you pants about "gatekeeping" yet gatekeeping is exactly your goal. It's why you yourself should have been gatekept out.
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This expectation is also 100% because people think that the kind of game Critical Role and other "actual plays" are able to have is something attainable for their tables too, both as DMs and players. It isn't. You are not a professional voice actor with a production crew.
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I showed this to my wife and said people were upset about it. She said, "Thats... Just our family eating McDonald's."
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This is a sad reason to like something and is why this kind of stuff won't stand the test of time. It's a blip because it's shallow and done for petty reasons unlike the reasons Professor Tolkien made his legendarium in the first place for.
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We did it. Thank you everyone! I wasn't sure if this very niche thing had legs. I'm pleasantly wrong. Macuahuitl 100% Funded!
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There is D&D as a player-driven wargame and D&D as a fantasy novel experience. These are two separate hobbies sharing a vocabulary of words that mean different things between the two.
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Looks like people on reddit found my Kickstarter and don't like me. I've been a good boy lately and really dialed back any vitriol this last year. Guess that isn't good enough. Oh well. Macuahuitl is apolitical. Thats a fact.
Check out the campaign.
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If you think rolling on a table for a result removes player agency then under that logic, you shouldn't roll in combat for the same reason.
If you can't understand how the dice are there to simulate the unknown and the unpredictable... I don't know what to tell you.
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FUNDED! You guys are amazing. Truly. It's been a rough last few 24 hours. Needles to say, after spending 24 hours without sleep and 17 miles hiking looking for lost hikers in our group (found them), waking up to this is truly amazing. Thank you. Now we just continue to push through in this campaign and work towards fulfillment when it's done.
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I prefer a D&D game where players are interacting with the setting and the world rather than their character sheets, feats, bonuses, and other game mechanics. Mechanics need to be almost working in the background.
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These d100s are stupid. I'm trying to imagine being that guy at the table who uses it.
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This is disgusting and on the verge of libel towards LotFP. They never can name what Raggi has done that is so terrible. I'm a freelancer and being one is hard. Hope your company goes under for treating one this way. You assholes deserve it. 🖕
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Confirmed. They hate being fair and player choice mattering. Failed novelists and writers confirmed.
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Anyone else getting random likes from bot eThots? Over here discussing elf game and some random fake profile "looking for love" likes a post about hex maps.
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My 5e will look better than WotC's art wise. At least that much is certain. It will have better DM tools for sure as well. A few minor tweaks are being made to make it deadlier, but it still has a "5e" feel.
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My anaconda don't want none unless it's creative commons, hun. A knight fighting a giant snake monster. Free for even commercial use under the CC. Enjoy. Click the link for more stuff.
#TTRPG #art #illustration #DnD #OSR
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