Quote from: trechriron;1138760It's sad. This whole thing is being handled like a bad episode of the Three Stooges. Or a Bennie Hill montage.

Am I losing my Liberalness? My blood boils and my stomach turns just listening to people point at OA and scream heresy. These statements read like someone in a North Korean prison camp reading from a typed text script nodding profusely their agreement to avoid the next beating. It's not sincere.

I support equality and fair treatment of everyone. I get why people are mad about police brutality targeting blacks. But do we have to swear allegiance to our Marxist "superiors" and take an oath of submission in the process of giving a shit? I want to encourage kindness and equality but I don't feel compelled to pretend like TSR/WOTC fucked the world when OA was released. If you want a product that eschews Asian stereotypes, write one! Teach the world! Lead the way! I don't have to bend the knee to appreciate you. Hell, if you show me the way I will appreciate you even more!

I think I'm losing my mind.

You're not losing your Liberalness...Liberals have lost their Liberalness in embracing Marxist ideology.
You're not losing your mind...Liberalism is being swept away by a Fundamentalist Secular Religion rooted in Critical Theory.
Gamers, game designers, and game companies are increasingly being swept up in this Fundmentalist fervor.

The funny thing is, WotC put the Naughty Text on the DTRPG page, but they're still profiting off it.  Corps gonna corp.

D&D is for EVERYONE!*

*Who bows down to the Twitter mob and accepts their labels. Everyone else can go fuck themselves!

Quote from: Razor 007;1138778I think we have already seen the last releases for D&D which weren't fluffed up with Seattle values.  And obviously, the same can be said for Pathfinder. The grognards had better head for the lifeboats now.  

The #1 and #2 fantasy genre RPGs have become dwelling places for far left political activists.  Both WOTC and Paizo have fully embraced their captors now.

Fuck that, the grognards had better start writing shit down so that I can buy it. Can't pass on the legacy you don't build.

It would be a good idea for independent content creators to consider setting up an alternative to DTRPG for when (not if) they decide to unilaterally deplatform everyone to the right of Leon Trotsky.

Quote from: FelixGamingX1;1138776Is anyone here able to pinpoint the year this clown fest began? D&D sure doesn't feel like the D&D I grew up playing...

2010 was the start of the current cycle of this mind disease. But it didnt really start hitting WOTC till like 5 years ago and even then it was mostly sporadic and not official.

Then last year the SJW cultists kicked into high gear and WOTC has been increasingly more ugly in its wokeness with each passing month. Expect things to get worse.

I told you that WOTC would some how, some way, steal defeat from the jaws of victory. Moreso now that the cult apparently has them under their insane thumb.

Quote from: trechriron;1138760...  My blood boils and my stomach turns just listening to people point at OA and scream heresy. These statements read like someone in a North Korean prison camp reading from a typed text script nodding profusely their agreement to avoid the next beating. It's not sincere. ...

I was a teenager when OA came out.  I remember that my friend who happens to be ethnic Chinese was the one who said "Hey, this stuff is awesome!  Can we put some of this in the game?"  So yeah, I agree that those guys are idiots.

And I find it interesting that conservatives and liberals who are not idiots can agree on all kinds of things, gaming and otherwise.  If folks actually lived according to the principals they state rather than using them as an excuse to be jerks to other people, the world would be a much better place.

Apologies if I've been posting this same message lately, but I feel it bears repeating.

We live in the Golden Age of RPGs. We have 40+ years of previous games and constant new creations to enjoy. It's high time for everyone sick of the woke bullshit to find something wonderful to play.

There is NO reason anyone must support any woke publisher. We can get our rules and setting crack from small press publishers who do not hate us.

If you're a fantasy RPG fan, you're spoiled rotten with choices out there. If you haven't checked out Palladium Fantasy 1e, you really owe yourself a great read that's tremendous fun to play.

Quote from: Spinachcat;1138810Apologies if I've been posting this same message lately, but I feel it bears repeating.

We live in the Golden Age of RPGs. We have 40+ years of previous games and constant new creations to enjoy. It's high time for everyone sick of the woke bullshit to find something wonderful to play.

There is NO reason anyone must support any woke publisher. We can get our rules and setting crack from small press publishers who do not hate us.

If you're a fantasy RPG fan, you're spoiled rotten with choices out there. If you haven't checked out Palladium Fantasy 1e, you really owe yourself a great read that's tremendous fun to play.

Yes, I know.  We have lots of options to choose from.

And homebrew is awesome fun, itself.  Just crank out your own fun, on your own table.  Do it exactly how you want it to be done.  The genie is already out of the bottle, at this point.

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Oriental Adventures!

Quote from: Tom Kalbfus;1138816Oriental Adventures!

Killer DM, though.

I remember going to a freshman Orientation in 1996 at East Carolina University, and there was a lot of talk that took be a back a bit.  I was older (almost 25, having been in the military) and the number of times  I sat through lectures about date rape, rape, sexual assault, and racial and cultural sensitivity was jarring.  I had just left the "dont ask dont tell" and tail hook military, so I was used to a certain amount of training on some subjects.  But these people made it sound as if a University was more rape-ey than a level 4 prison.  I was in line to get my ID and I remember a couple of young ladies (white as snow) talking about some sort of minority meeting.....I was wondering if the word minority meant what I thought it did, as their basis for the status was being female.   So I think the seeds for this have been planted for some time.  The racial sensitivity training for example, made me laugh aloud.  I guess none of these kids had never, ever had a Black or Brown person as a supervisor.   My division officer in my division of the Reactor department was a Black man.   I had several supervisors who were Hispanic.  

     It seemed to me the people on campus live in a very, very insulated bubble and develop some very strange views of how most of the real world works, and the college kids need to just take a summer job on a constructions site, in a warehouse, or even at a restaurant, and they will get to see the other social classes they seem to wring their hands and grind their teeth over.    But I could see a pattern starting, and it was starting in the mid 90's.   IME though the professors who were obviously very left, were willing to discuss any topic, and even listen to people from positions they disagreed with (I even converted a female professor to a supporter of the 2A).  I am not so certain those open minded people are becoming professors anymore.

"Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free.
YOU ARE A PIRATE."

Quote from: Omega;11387962010 was the start of the current cycle of this mind disease. But it didnt really start hitting WOTC till like 5 years ago and even then it was mostly sporadic and not official.

Then last year the SJW cultists kicked into high gear and WOTC has been increasingly more ugly in its wokeness with each passing month. Expect things to get worse.

  I haven't followed WotC's new stuff much, but I think you start seeing traces of it in 5E at launch--the push for more 'inclusion' and 'representation'--and it really ramps up with Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, from what I've heard.

Quote from: Ghostmaker;1138819"Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free.
YOU ARE A PIRATE."

LOL, I wonder if the mascot is problematic yet.

Quote from: oggsmash;1138818I remember going to a freshman Orientation in 1996 at East Carolina University, and there was a lot of talk that took be a back a bit.  I was older (almost 25, having been in the military) and the number of times  I sat through lectures about date rape, rape, sexual assault, and racial and cultural sensitivity was jarring.  I had just left the "dont ask dont tell" and tail hook military, so I was used to a certain amount of training on some subjects.  But these people made it sound as if a University was more rape-ey than a level 4 prison.  I was in line to get my ID and I remember a couple of young ladies (white as snow) talking about some sort of minority meeting.....I was wondering if the word minority meant what I thought it did, as their basis for the status was being female.   So I think the seeds for this have been planted for some time.  The racial sensitivity training for example, made me laugh aloud.  I guess none of these kids had never, ever had a Black or Brown person as a supervisor.   My division officer in my division of the Reactor department was a Black man.   I had several supervisors who were Hispanic.  

     It seemed to me the people on campus live in a very, very insulated bubble and develop some very strange views of how most of the real world works, and the college kids need to just take a summer job on a constructions site, in a warehouse, or even at a restaurant, and they will get to see the other social classes they seem to wring their hands and grind their teeth over.    But I could see a pattern starting, and it was starting in the mid 90's.   IME though the professors who were obviously very left, were willing to discuss any topic, and even listen to people from positions they disagreed with (I even converted a female professor to a supporter of the 2A).  I am not so certain those open minded people are becoming professors anymore.

It is funny. Every one of the people I know outside the internet who advocate socialism have never been to a socialist/communist or formerly socialist/communist country. I think that it would be a very rude awakening for them.