Quote from: goblinslayer;1121870Just my luck.  I bought the Judges Guild Deluxe #1 from Goodman Games this morning.  I guess we'll never see #2 now that the internet mobs will demand that JG be forever removed from history.  

You have to be a total idiot in this day and age to be on social media without being anonymous.  I'm just surprised he hasn't claimed he was hacked.  That seems to be the go to defense for aging boomers.

You forget that true racists aren't ashamed of their racism, they are proud of it. Hence he won't be making any apology or excuses.

I have never bought a single JG product and when I found out abt this I was confusing them with the other one, the one for 5e. Sucks for the people that were publishing through them and serves as a reminder of why you need to vet your business associates or better yet self publish.

As for DT pulling everything down, I would have done the same.

Quote from: estar;1121873As for it being a fabrication, it was stated by him to me that his post was accurate in the phone conversation we had. It was more than disconcerting as conversation was cordial and remained cordial afterward. Mistwell's account is consistent with mine.

Nah, was not referring to the incident itself but to the fact that the nuts out there can and probably will use it to go after others or try to get people removed just for being vaugly associated with this. If even that.

Quote from: Omega;1121881Nah, was not referring to the incident itself but to the fact that the nuts out there can and probably will use it to go after others or try to get people removed just for being vaugly associated with this. If even that.

And to paint us all as the same. Just wait till tomorrow at best for the headlines: "Evil Hat's approach is correct but all the other publishers need to do the same"

Quote from: Ratman_tf;1121874Incorrect. I previously noted that Caverns of Thracia was written by Janelle (Then Paul) Jaquay for Judge's Guild, and was taken down.
I do not know if Jaquay was paid any residuals for the sales, but at the very least, as a well regarded adventure module, it's now been scrubbed from one of the most popular PDF stores. I don't even know if it was available in any other medium.

For work prior to 2000 if the JG contract specified it, the author got their IP back. What was left after was 100% owned by Judges Guild including the Jaquays modules from what I was told. The two Quicklink products reverted to Judges Guild. It is with Necromancer Games material that it gets murky. The way it was left that Judges Guild sold all NG works on their storefront but did not have the right make additional work in that line.

Everybody else since Necromancer Games is a current publisher except for AGP. My license specifies that Judges Guild gets to use all my work after I cease publication. However I also had a provision added that I get the right to keep on using my own original IP. For example most of the material in Scourge of the Demon Wolf.

I know some of this because in the early 2000s, Bob Bledsaw Senior had to through through his spreadsheet and paperwork to come up with a list of things that we, the informal JG Design Team, were allow to work on and use.

Bledsaw 2: Jackass Boogaloo!

I've lived in LA and NYC. Yes, there are a lot of Jewish people in the media. Yes, many of them have positions of power. To deny that would be nonsense, but the "Jewsmedia" hating Trump for invoking Jesus is also total nonsense. It represents a fundamental ignorance of what's happening in 2020's MSM.

These days it's hip to be anti-Christian and many Christians feel excluded from the culture. However, in my experience, there are FAR more atheists (many vocal anti-Christians) involved in the media than there are Jews. Also for decades, I've worked with many Jewish people and many Israelis and I've rarely encountered anti-Christian attitudes. On the flip side, I've heard LOTS of nasty ass anti-Christian bullshit from SJWs....and the MSM is drowning in those fucks.

As for slavery leading to rock & roll? Yes, that is true.

The Law of Unintended Consequences continues to reign supreme.

But "looking on the bright side of slavery" is cringey as fuck. Yes, Muhammad Ali said he thanked God that his grandaddy got on that boat. Yes, American blacks in the modern day descended from slaves have advantages and opportunities that don't exist anywhere in Africa.

Yes, it is true the American South has an amazing music tradition BECAUSE of the blending of different cultures who heard each other's music and created whole new genres of music never before imagined.

"Cultural appropriation" continues to be absolutely awesome.

Still, Bledsaw Jr's post was cringey as fuck, and he should be absolutely ashamed for disgracing his father's WONDERFUL legacy of creating Judges Guild.

Oh, if any worthless retards want to screech "the OSR is waaaaycist", tell'em to go play in traffic and make the world a better place.

Quote from: Brendan;1121713(I'm personally fond of what my Lebanese-descended father in law writes on survey forms when they inquire as to his race:  "American" - but I digress).

HELL YEAH!!! That's awesome!!!

I'm going to adopt that too. Wish I thought of that. Please extend my kudos and thanks!!

Race = American! Fuck yeah!! Love that on SO many levels!

Quote from: Brad;1121715You know I'm Jewish, right..?

No I didn't, but that explains everything!!!!

Thanks Brad, now I've gotta imagine Keira Knightly eating latkes and pastrami on rye!

Yeah baby, hot mounds of pastrami on dark, dark oh so so soft Russian rye!

Quote from: S'mon;1121772I had a look at BBII's Facebook page last night. It looks like he's basically a shut-in, he says he leaves the house less than once a month now. I suspect Social Media Derangement Syndrome, in this case of the Alt-Right/anti-Semitic kind rather than the SJW/cultural-Marxist kind.

Exactly. Excellent point.

Social Media Derangement Syndrome isn't for SJWs only. Plenty of absolute idiocy on the far right of the spectrum.

Quote from: DocJones;1121844Cancel culture does not exist.

LOL.

Quote from: Haffrung;1121857Someone needs to walk me through the chain of reasoning from "Bob Bledsaw II is an anti-Semitic loon" to "all Judges Guild material must be pulled from commercial distribution." Why does the one make the other a moral imperative?

Pick one:

A) DriveThru panders to the Outrage Mob.

B) DriveThru revels in virtue signalling and this is a Cancel Culture bullseye.

C) DriveThru is proactively defending itself to protect its profits.

D) DriveThru doesn't want an anti-Semitic Loon publisher using their platform to earn money out of legitimate disgust.

E) Any combo of the Above

Quote from: Mistwell;1121879.See for example this one (which I think was never posted to this thread). Note the "holohoax" comment, by which he appears to mean the holocaust was a hoax.  Or this one. This is a guy who thinks 9/11 was an inside job done by the evil Jewish Conspiracy out of Israel, and that vaccines kill people and are party of a similar conspiracy. This isn't just "conservative opinions".

I'm happy to have RATIONAL discussions regarding Israel and the US support of Israel (and my own pro-Israel with limits stance), but holy fuck, the Bledsaw 2 & 3 spoogenuggets are shitty idiots. Fuck that noise.

But it's a free country and I support the free speech of those whose words I disagree with. However, there are consequences for being an A-grade asshat.

Quote from: GeekyBugle;1121880I have never bought a single JG product

Back in the 70s, Judges Guild under the original Bob Bledsaw produced many good, some great products. If you have an interest in 70s RPGing and you have a chance to get any of their books via eBay, they are worth a look.

Quote from: Shasarak;1121839I dont know if it is because of the Jews but Bob is not wrong that the Media hates Trump.

Seems like a storm in a tea cup to me.

So you've dug deeper right? You see the awful stuff everyone is referring to here, right? It would be great if you could adjust your comment in light of this information.

Quote from: Spinachcat;1121887Back in the 70s, Judges Guild under the original Bob Bledsaw produced many good, some great products. If you have an interest in 70s RPGing and you have a chance to get any of their books via eBay, they are worth a look.

Thanks for the recommendation, I might do that, but putting money in the wallet of a racist? NOPE.

Quote from: Jager Fury;1121888So you've dug deeper right? You see the awful stuff everyone is referring to here, right? It would be great if you could adjust your comment in light of this information.

I didn't know we had a new mod.

Quote from: estar;1121878Appreciate the compliment. I am not sour on the setting but for now it is impossible for me to make new content for it. I do have plenty of original material to work on. A lot of my Majestic Wilderlands content can have the serial numbers filed off and reused. I was going to do that before getting an unexpected opportunity to obtain a IP license.

Also my license agreement states that I retain the rights to the original material I create. I can't republish it with JG IP mixed up in it but I can reuse what original to me. The other half of that deal is that Judges Guild also gets to use the material as well.

Just wait a couple of years and buy the whole IP from him for pocket change.

https://youtu.be/vsa1ZvzFgvU

Clearly that guy has issues.

Quote from: estar;1121867The one person who is effected is James Mishler of Adventure Game Publishing. He has already posted about the issue. Goodman, Frog God Games, and myself all still have our listings up. I am not sure what deal Goodman Games has. Frog God Games contract stipulates that all royalties must go to fulfilling the CSIO Kickstarter.  The remaining person is Chris Bernhardt who wrote City State of the Sea King and he doesn't sell on DriveThruRPG.

My royalties have been waived since November of 2017 in lieu of payment for the final nine maps of the CSIO Kickstarter. If Mr. Bledsaw decide to remove the waiver then I will no longer be selling either my Revised Editions, or Majestic Wilderlands material. Prior to my post I expected the waiver to be removed sometime in late 2020 or early 2021 as the revenues were approaching what I paid for the first nine maps.

Rob, I was glad to see you condemn him. Given how much I know you love the Wilderlands I realize that must have been painful.

What a complete piece of garbage that guy is.  I guess the SJW crowd have finally found a real racist in the hobby; now watch them conveniently ignore the fact that basically EVERYONE of note in the OSR is condemning him.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1121913What a complete piece of garbage that guy is.  I guess the SJW crowd have finally found a real racist in the hobby; now watch them conveniently ignore the fact that basically EVERYONE of note in the OSR is condemning him.

I don't get it. When Lovecraft is attacked, the OSR is all "separate the art from the artist" now you guys can't even separate the art from the guy that happens to own the art's IP.

How is this any different than what the Fate of Cthulhu guy did?

Quote from: hedgehobbit;1121929I don't get it. When Lovecraft is attacked, the OSR is all "separate the art from the artist" now you guys can't even separate the art from the guy that happens to own the art's IP.

How is this any different than what the Fate of Cthulhu guy did?

This is an incorrect presumption, of course. I have spent the last couple of days very carefully separating the art from the current art IP owner, and have posted for the first time in probably a decade both over on Enworld and RPG.net to defend Bob Bledsaw Sr's and the rest of the original staff at Judges Guild, and their reputation. So I'm not sure what you are referring to or implying here...

Quote from: hedgehobbit;1121929I don't get it. When Lovecraft is attacked, the OSR is all "separate the art from the artist" now you guys can't even separate the art from the guy that happens to own the art's IP.

How is this any different than what the Fate of Cthulhu guy did?

Lovecraft has been dead for 100 years, Bledsaw II is apparently just some jackass who never did anything but fuck up his father's IP. Miles and miles apart.