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D&D Commissars, coming to store near you.

Started by Arkansan, April 15, 2021, 12:24:12 PM

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jeff37923

#30
April 18, 2021, 09:24:20 PM
Quote from: David Johansen on April 18, 2021, 04:22:26 PM
meh...I own the store I DM in.

Well, that's one way to solve the problem.
"Meh."

dungeon crawler

#31
April 28, 2021, 05:48:28 PM
I have two local game stores and they have avoided this for the moment. Rest assured if the woke ever get their way they will go this route or worse.

Philotomy Jurament

#32
April 29, 2021, 02:59:07 AM
Weird. I wouldn't run a game there. I suppose that's kinda what they're after: only attracting the kind of DM that would agree to such things. Whatever.
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David Johansen

#33
April 29, 2021, 09:25:09 AM
Quote from: jeff37923 on April 18, 2021, 09:24:20 PM
Quote from: David Johansen on April 18, 2021, 04:22:26 PM
meh...I own the store I DM in.

Well, that's one way to solve the problem.

It causes other problems, of course.
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Zelen

#34
May 01, 2021, 01:04:22 AM
None of these rules seem, in themselves, bad. The problem is the people who are in WotC & its community organization. Unfortunately no amount of rules can actually fix problems that arise from broken, petty people.

Snowman0147

#35
May 01, 2021, 01:12:56 AM
Shit like this is why I use Discord to game.

matt swain

#36
May 01, 2021, 06:39:32 PM Last Edit: May 01, 2021, 06:41:46 PM by matt swain
Fuck this noise.

it's bad enough that fucking GW has commissars at every official 40k event to make sure you only use their overpriced, limited availability limited options miniatures and terrain, and that your army isn't offensive to anyone (No slannesh daemons with big dicks or naked tit modelend on them for example)

I hope this dies a quick death.
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Bradford C. Walker

#37
May 03, 2021, 05:36:07 PM
I already play MMOs. Why would I want this?

In itself, it's laughable because the real appeal is to do this at home with your friends. Playing in stores at and cons? Why? Hell--as mentioned upthread--I don't even need to be in the same room anymore thanks to VOIP clients like Discord and VTTs like Tabletop Simulator.

Until I see something else that would serve to drive the masses into WOTC's Organized Gulag, I'm not going to freak out over this. I'm going to see it as incompetent overreach.

Snark Knight

#38
May 11, 2021, 08:14:15 AM
Doesn't pick-up DnD/RPGing (as in, not just you and your m8s) already have a problem with the GM to Player ratio? Wouldn't stuff like that just exacerbate this, or is there some long-term plan to push Solo Play/Choose-Your-Own-Adventure coming up?

Anon Adderlan

#39
May 13, 2021, 03:49:23 AM
Quote from: Jaeger on April 15, 2021, 01:21:36 PM
Quote from: Matt Sanders @iammattsanders on April 15, 2021, 01:16:30 PM

Remember my local store that was organizing a very bureaucratic sounding D&D council to oversee store games?

Well, their DM application process is up.

That'll be a hard nope from me.



Their #Twitter Bio:

Quotehttp://sealedlibrary.itch.io Mostly indie RPGs. Everything is politics. Also respecting people. he/him.

So make no mistake, these people would implement equivalent policies if they were in charge.

It also doesn't matter if the group is not directly run by the store, they can still come in and gatekeep, which is exactly what happened at my LGS. Since the #Meetup was run by 'the club' you couldn't reserve a table or find a game without going through them, as the owner did not care enough to interfere.

Brad

#40
May 13, 2021, 09:33:00 AM
Quote from: David Johansen on April 18, 2021, 04:22:26 PM
meh...I own the store I DM in.
Quote from: Anon Adderlan on May 13, 2021, 03:49:23 AM
So make no mistake, these people would implement equivalent policies if they were in charge.

It also doesn't matter if the group is not directly run by the store, they can still come in and gatekeep, which is exactly what happened at my LGS. Since the #Meetup was run by 'the club' you couldn't reserve a table or find a game without going through them, as the owner did not care enough to interfere.

Hmmm...so how would it work if the owner said GTFO? Would they start some sort of Twitter campaign to get his store shutdown? The issue here is these fucks have infiltrated pretty much every aspect of modern culture under the guise of being "oppressed," but do everything they can to oust anyone they remotely disagree with as soon as they have the means available. If they opened their own gaming store and wouldn't let me in, I wouldn't give a fuck; I wouldn't want to play with them, anyway. But if *I* had a gaming store and didn't want them to play there, well, now the whining and frivolous lawsuits begin.

Fuck those retards.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Ghostmaker

#41
May 13, 2021, 09:39:14 AM
Quote from: Brad on May 13, 2021, 09:33:00 AM
Quote from: David Johansen on April 18, 2021, 04:22:26 PM
meh...I own the store I DM in.
Quote from: Anon Adderlan on May 13, 2021, 03:49:23 AM
So make no mistake, these people would implement equivalent policies if they were in charge.

It also doesn't matter if the group is not directly run by the store, they can still come in and gatekeep, which is exactly what happened at my LGS. Since the #Meetup was run by 'the club' you couldn't reserve a table or find a game without going through them, as the owner did not care enough to interfere.

Hmmm...so how would it work if the owner said GTFO? Would they start some sort of Twitter campaign to get his store shutdown? The issue here is these fucks have infiltrated pretty much every aspect of modern culture under the guise of being "oppressed," but do everything they can to oust anyone they remotely disagree with as soon as they have the means available. If they opened their own gaming store and wouldn't let me in, I wouldn't give a fuck; I wouldn't want to play with them, anyway. But if *I* had a gaming store and didn't want them to play there, well, now the whining and frivolous lawsuits begin.

Fuck those retards.
Trying to gatekeep against the wishes of a store owner strikes me as a great way to be told 'leave the premises or be charged with trespassing'.

Most gaming stores can't afford to run off customers for 'wrongthink'.
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