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Consumers Guide to TTRPGs
Ocule:
Consumer's Guide to TTRPGs
This is permanent link to the Consumer's Guide, you can find the discussion thread here.
Foreward
I have been playing tabletop games for about ten years now, mostly as a game master. I have played most of the games on my shelf and at least read through them all, and all of them are in this guide and some that I have only discovered through my research on making this. I was also thinking of all the games I feel like I have been deceived or companies I have purchased from who have made their opinions abundantly clear on how they feel about gamers. A common phrase i’ve seen is “if you don’t like our politics don’t buy our games” which is fair enough and has a simple solution. I’ve watched major companies, such as wizards of the coast employees engage in harassment and doxxing campaigns, and others interfering with the ability of other creators to get their games on shelves and finally had enough. I put together a list, asking for suggestions from other gamers on which companies they felt were ethical, and decidedly apolitical and why they felt that way. Then I compiled the information here in three categories, green, yellow and red. I tried to keep the criteria simple and a full A through F scale would involve a bunch more work and maybe in the future the guide can afford to be more granular but it is not a project I would wish to go at alone. The Green category was for game companies that maintained a stance of neutrality, were pro free speech and are generally friendly regardless of anyone’s political persuasion. The yellow category was intended to be more questionable, where a publisher or creator may have engaged in questionable practices but doesn’t appear to make a habit of it, whether unintentional or simply well intentioned but may have either sent the wrong message or was exercising restraint. The red list, which this document has become infamous for, is reserved for bad actors. Entities who have caused harm to people or businesses, have a hostile stance to those of differing ideological views or in general have engaged in anti-consumer practices. Whenever possible I will try to provide links to the sources of why a company was categorized the way it was.
It is my hope that this guide serves as a sort of consumer guide, and not a blacklist. I really do want more entities to be categorized as green. This is for my own love of gaming and the hobby. I would ask anyone who reads this to not reach out to the creators you don’t agree with. Let them do their thing, and if this list helps you make a decision or discover a new game you didn’t know existed then it has done its job. I know on creating this list I have discovered several new games that were absolute gems and picked them up immediately. If anyone has any suggestions, comments or concerns please share them on the original thread Here
Thank you for all the support I've received for this effort, I hope you find it useful.
Now for the infamous "List"
Link to Guide
Cathode Ray:
I think this should be pinned. I also think a pdf edition should be available so it can circulate around the web.
Zelen:
Non-Google hosting would be appreciated, since unfortunately Google belongs on the "red" category.
Ocule:
I'll see if i can find another host, maybe a free cloud or something
Cathode Ray:
--- Quote from: Zelen on November 19, 2022, 03:07:18 PM ---Non-Google hosting would be appreciated, since unfortunately Google belongs on the "red" category.
--- End quote ---
My sentiments exactly. I have Google blockedon my computer, and only have an older pdf of it.
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