Quote from: Necrozius;915847He wrote the MYFAROG rpg, which I think was just really into Viking mythology and Asatru or whatever.

Yeah, the author is nutty but his game doesn't seem to be overtly pushing any agendas... based on the reviews I've read/watched. I'd kinda like to give it a look but it doesn't come in cheap/easy PDF form, just hardcopy (AFAIK) direct from the author.

Quote from: Simlasa;915864Yeah, the author is nutty but his game doesn't seem to be overtly pushing any agendas... based on the reviews I've read/watched. I'd kinda like to give it a look but it doesn't come in cheap/easy PDF form, just hardcopy (AFAIK) direct from the author.

Actually, some checking reveals that there's a softcover version available via Amazon.

Quote from: Kellri;915817If those were the ONLY books mentioned in the bibliography referencing Islam then that could imply either that the authors are either intentionally trying to make a very out-of-context ideological statement by omitting any useful sources or are imbeciles incapable of using a public library.

In any case, it's not necessarily a conservative trait to pick and choose the worst possible sources to make an ideological point.*.

I think you missed my point.  The actual text of the game met with full ideological approval as historically accurate. Only the bibliography made it, in a sort of reverse osmosis fashion, unacceptable.

While hardly an unusual perspective, sadly, it is still warped as hell.   Regardless of the ideology.. conservative or progressive... to find a text completely inoffensive, even praiseworthy, until you read the sources is... tragic.  The easiest read possible is that you, or whomever, is so caught up in the 'party line', and the subsequent signalling that you haven't strayed from purity, that you will reject that which you know is true (ie: a historically accurate text) based entirely on perceived 'party line' signalling that is outside your standard for purity (ie sources that are badthink).

Epistimalogical Closure is a shame regardless of the ideology it is in support of.

No, actually what I'm saying is that finding a bibliography full of suspiciously ridiculous texts could possibly impugn the preceding text. Maybe not enough that I would want to throw it away in disgust, but enough that I would want to go back and do a closer reading of it and make sure that it is, in fact, historically accurate. That's not hewing to a party line, that's just good sense. Similarly, if I went to a restaurant, enjoyed the meal, and later found out that the chef was a vocal proponent of eating dog-flesh, I might want to look a little more closely at their meatloaf next time.

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the over-analysed life is fucking tiresome.
That anyone devoted more than five minutes to whether someone was wearing shorts on a book cover is at least four minutes too many :-/

Quote from: Spike;915811I don't recall any racist rpgs on OBS, but I do recall that years before the Big Purple had a hilarious review of of the RAHOWA RPG... in which all the evil races (Blacks, Jews, Mexicans... etc), had cool super powers based on racial stereotypes, and white heroic people got bupkis... and since the combat system was broken to the point of uselessness, there was no way to beat all those inferior races with their superpowers...

In short, a game so racist and so bad that it was easy to believe it was satirical, but probably wasn't.

Quote from: TristramEvans;915822Well, the Racial Holy War RPG has been around for a while, it was contemporary of the original uproar over FATAL. Wasn't there a recent fantasy RPG written by a famous White supremacist in Denmark or Norway or something?

well apparently the people who run the rpg.netwiki think its one of the worst rpgs ever along with The World of Synnibarr and cyborg commando meaning its actually probably one of the best games ever written.
https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Worst_RPGs_ever

Hmm... I wonder if they'd still be as scathing of Wraeththu today, given its themes etc...

Quote from: GRIM;916033Hmm... I wonder if they'd still be as scathing of Wraeththu today, given its themes etc...

It's not the flower-penis that RPGnet needs, its the flower-penis RPGnet deserves...