WotC (and Wizkids) are full of people for whom the word "truth" means something totally different from what that word means to normal people.
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WotC and the truth have not met in 24+ years.

I'll believe that WotC is going to release older editions under creative commons when I see them actually do it.  Until then, I am skeptical.  They have said that the new version will be released under a creative commons license but they haven't actually done it. 

The SJW crowd can't seem to decide if sex work is empowering and sex workers must be respected or whether it's exploitation and bad.  Their outrage or lack of it seems highly instrumental. 

Quote from: yosemitemike on May 11, 2024, 05:43:49 AMI'll believe that WotC is going to release older editions under creative commons when I see them actually do it.  Until then, I am skeptical.  They have said that the new version will be released under a creative commons license but they haven't actually done it. 
 

That's exactly what I said in the video. Releasing the older editions to creative commons is a minefield for them.

Whatever they do. It will be stupid. With wotc failure is the only option.

Quote from: Omega on May 12, 2024, 05:22:46 AMWhatever they do. It will be stupid. With wotc failure is the only option.

Sure seems like it, yes.

Quote from: RPGPundit on May 09, 2024, 07:01:56 PMWotC (and Wizkids) are full of people for whom the word "truth" means something totally different from what that word means to normal people.
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I think the red box fighter thing was just trolling for attention. Tenkar's video on it led me to notice (after decades!) that it is the same fighter on the cover of all of the BECMI editions. There is also an action figure.

So clever sculpting but if they wanted to highlight cool female characters, the Red Box has Aleena, who is both memorable and taught players important lessons about the way that the game was meant to be played. Sure, the character has a typical female presentation, but that isn't necessarily a bug in a game about heroic fantasies. Archetypes are good, right? Right? Or am I too old fashioned?

Quote from: Votan on May 13, 2024, 08:36:17 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit on May 09, 2024, 07:01:56 PMWotC (and Wizkids) are full of people for whom the word "truth" means something totally different from what that word means to normal people.
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I think the red box fighter thing was just trolling for attention. Tenkar's video on it led me to notice (after decades!) that it is the same fighter on the cover of all of the BECMI editions. There is also an action figure.

So clever sculpting but if they wanted to highlight cool female characters, the Red Box has Aleena, who is both memorable and taught players important lessons about the way that the game was meant to be played. Sure, the character has a typical female presentation, but that isn't necessarily a bug in a game about heroic fantasies. Archetypes are good, right? Right? Or am I too old fashioned?

WotC is following the Marvel Comics and Disney marketing strategy where you insult the fans, pander to communists who hate their products and have no money to buy their goods and then relish in the fact that they are a hated brand and go bankrupt.  A brand can only shit on the fans till they no longer hate the brand, they no longer think about it and then they lose their jobs while a new CEO gets on his hands and knees and debases himself to try to save his retirement.

Quote from: yosemitemike on May 11, 2024, 05:43:49 AMThe SJW crowd can't seem to decide if sex work is empowering and sex workers must be respected or whether it's exploitation and bad.  Their outrage or lack of it seems highly instrumental.

I'd settle for the GenZ and GenAlpha 'tards simply not being schizos that can't differentiate fiction from reality. They seem to alternate between porn brain and shrieking like banshees if they see anime tiddies or something. Or them clutching their pearls over the cover of Eldritch Wizardry. It's frustrating that we have to put up with absolute slop like Aphrodite Pandemos being a tranny in the Hades 1 videogame, which was celebrated as being 'representation', only for them to scream bloody murder when someone altered the art to make her stop looking masculine. And yes, I get that 'art fixers' are hypocrites, but it's friggin hilarious when their BS is flipped back on them causing them to go apoplectic. These ESG/DEI/BRIDGE nimrods are going to run out of money one day and all the house of cards they've built will come crashing back down on them.

Quote from: yosemitemike on May 11, 2024, 05:43:49 AMThe SJW crowd can't seem to decide if sex work is empowering and sex workers must be respected or whether it's exploitation and bad.  Their outrage or lack of it seems highly instrumental. 

They are nothing if not incoherent.

Quote from: RPGPundit on May 11, 2024, 09:22:32 AMReleasing the older editions to creative commons is a minefield for them.

Not really, because the only people who will be playing them are the folks who already were. Meanwhile most players and services will continue to focus exclusively on supporting the 'current' edition.

Quote from: Votan on May 13, 2024, 08:36:17 PMSo clever sculpting but if they wanted to highlight cool female characters, the Red Box has Aleena, who is both memorable and taught players important lessons about the way that the game was meant to be played. Sure, the character has a typical female presentation, but that isn't necessarily a bug in a game about heroic fantasies. Archetypes are good, right? Right? Or am I too old fashioned?

Some years back there was much bitching by the woke about how she was "Sexualized" and "pornographic" even. Because these idiots have no clue what those words even mean.

Quote from: Omega on May 14, 2024, 06:36:04 AM

Quote from: Votan on May 13, 2024, 08:36:17 PMSo clever sculpting but if they wanted to highlight cool female characters, the Red Box has Aleena, who is both memorable and taught players important lessons about the way that the game was meant to be played. Sure, the character has a typical female presentation, but that isn't necessarily a bug in a game about heroic fantasies. Archetypes are good, right? Right? Or am I too old fashioned?

Some years back there was much bitching by the woke about how she was "Sexualized" and "pornographic" even. Because these idiots have no clue what those words even mean.

Aleena? Elmore has done quite a bit of cheesecake art but Aleena wasn't one of them. She was depicted wearing full chainmail. I guess where leftists are concerned, a female drawn with actual female body proportions is pornographic. Remember these are the people who can't even define what a woman is.

Quote from: Insane Nerd Ramblings on May 14, 2024, 01:56:48 AM

Quote from: yosemitemike on May 11, 2024, 05:43:49 AMThe SJW crowd can't seem to decide if sex work is empowering and sex workers must be respected or whether it's exploitation and bad.  Their outrage or lack of it seems highly instrumental.

I'd settle for the GenZ and GenAlpha 'tards simply not being schizos that can't differentiate fiction from reality. They seem to alternate between porn brain and shrieking like banshees if they see anime tiddies or something. Or them clutching their pearls over the cover of Eldritch Wizardry. It's frustrating that we have to put up with absolute slop like Aphrodite Pandemos being a tranny in the Hades 1 videogame, which was celebrated as being 'representation', only for them to scream bloody murder when someone altered the art to make her stop looking masculine. And yes, I get that 'art fixers' are hypocrites, but it's friggin hilarious when their BS is flipped back on them causing them to go apoplectic. These ESG/DEI/BRIDGE nimrods are going to run out of money one day and all the house of cards they've built will come crashing back down on them.

Gen Z males are very conservative compared to prior generations and Gen Z females are schizo.  Those Gen Z females that are sane will be breeding up, and those Gen Z females that are degenerate will mate with a large market of degenerates. 

We are literally watching a plot from an Xanth series books by Piers Anthony.  In that world the goblins were cursed so that the females would only find the weakest and most degenerate goblin as attractive and mate with them, which led the goblins to become a small twisted and degenerate race, that is the lefts future.  They are going to be small, twisted, crippled and degenerate.

Millennials are the problem, they have faggotized a large enough group of males that if conflict kicks off, they will have to be dealt with.

Quote from: Exploderwizard on May 14, 2024, 08:19:14 AMAleena? Elmore has done quite a bit of cheesecake art but Aleena wasn't one of them. She was depicted wearing full chainmail. I guess where leftists are concerned, a female drawn with actual female body proportions is pornographic. Remember these are the people who can't even define what a woman is.

UNREALISTIC BODY STANDARDS AND CONVENTIONALLY ATTRACTIVE!?!? BLASPHEMY!

"unrealistic body standards" is just code for "not a giant fatass" and "conventionally attractive" means you look like an actual woman. It's funny how normal women have zero fucking issue with Elmore art (except I have heard on more than one occasion "I wish I looked like that"), it's the fat, ugly feminists that complain the most. All while shoving cheesesteaks down their throat and complaining about thyroid issues. Yes, mad.

Quote from: honeydipperdavid on May 14, 2024, 11:17:14 AMMillennials are the problem, they have faggotized a large enough group of males that if conflict kicks off, they will have to be dealt with.

That's true. There are a lot of actual predators hiding in their ranks. Like, a lot. And anime fans have been keeping a running record of assholes that attack us, calling us 'pedophiles' for liking anime, so we have an archive of all the various scum that have eventually been outed as actual predators/sex pests that routinely attack anime. It's like the slime at the UN attacking us and then going apeshit cause many of us reminded them their organization has 'peacekeepers' that run organized kidnap/rape rings in conflict zones.

But I will say that its been hilarious to watch how most of their BS blows up in their face cause they're tourists that didn't get filtered/gatekept out of anime (sadly). They're the worst aspects of the same slime that have invaded RPGs, but at least anime for the moment has hentai (or stuff that's extremely close like ecchi) that will filter them. Its partly why I think nude art should make a comeback for RPGs. If nothing else, it will chase off the undesirables. At least some of the OSR crowd embrace that, and its always worth a chuckle at watching the same old suspects sputter and shriek about Frazetta-inspired art.

Funniest goddamn thing I ever saw was dumbass 'art fixer' on Twitter who took the cover of an issue for the collected manga for fantasy-isekai Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World (which is cutting it so close to hentai as to be razor thin in the difference). The character Sherry (a dwarf sex slave who looks more like a small Elf) was wearing an obvious bodystocking colored dark, so the midwit decided she had obviously been whitewashed by the American studio that did the translation. So she 'fixed' her to be black. All the while not knowing the first damn thing about the series, until it promptly detonated in her face.