Okay, look.  I like Dungeon World.  I do.  I really think it's a fun game with some great approaches.  I love that its very hackable and you can do a ton with it pretty easily.  I enjoy running it, I like playing it...  To me, it's a great little system.  

BUT OH MY FUCKING GOD, the community surrounding DW (particularly on G+) is full of absolutely insufferable Gen-Y'ers who are convinced they and they alone can define what good right fun and bad wrong fun are.  I watched it happen again tonight.  But, of course, were I to call it Hipster World, the RPG, I'd be tarred and feathered over there.

So, instead, I just came to the "safe" game place on the internet where it's okay to say less than completely PC comments to get it off my fucking chest.  

Thanks.

This ain't safe space, chum. Now give me your e-wallet, and no one gets hurt.

Jokes aside - I hear ya. Nothing turned me off AW more (and it's derivations, and indie RPGs in general) than the fanboy's praises for it as if it was the best thing since sliced bread. That, and the silly XP for sex thing.

I havent encountered that, but one can find extremist groups representing every crazy side of any type of geek fandom online, if you look hard enough. Id just ignore it and run away as fast as possible, so it doesnt ruin your enjoyment of the game?

I bought dungeon world to check it out and wasn't interested in it.  Though the way you are describing the fan base is making me happy I never gave the game a second glance.

Can it be worse than Exalted's fanbase? Ive specifically kept awat from that one just from the group on TBP back in the days of 1st edition.

And I remember liking the first Nobilis, but got driven away from just the sheer pretentiousness that oozed from the fanbase. I read the original as earnest to the point of purple prose, in a tongue in cheek manner. If that ever was the original intention, that was as gone from the 2nd edition onwards as the black comedy from Warhammer Fantasy.

That reminds me of exalted horror story that involved with a solar, fae, and a bed chamber.  To do this day I cannot for the love god figure out what the hell happen and frankly I don't ever want to know.  I stick with scion cause at least I know what in the hell I am doing.

Quote from: TristramEvans;725971Can it be worse than Exalted's fanbase?

That's a Venn diagram.

Quote from: CRKrueger;725974That's a Venn diagram.

I lol'd.

Quote from: Veilheim;725963Okay, look.  I like Dungeon World.  I do.  I really think it's a fun game with some great approaches.  I love that its very hackable and you can do a ton with it pretty easily.  I enjoy running it, I like playing it...  To me, it's a great little system.  

BUT OH MY FUCKING GOD, the community surrounding DW (particularly on G+) is full of absolutely insufferable Gen-Y'ers who are convinced they and they alone can define what good right fun and bad wrong fun are.  I watched it happen again tonight.  But, of course, were I to call it Hipster World, the RPG, I'd be tarred and feathered over there.

So, instead, I just came to the "safe" game place on the internet where it's okay to say less than completely PC comments to get it off my fucking chest.  

Thanks.

You're welcome.

I have no idea what you are talking about - honestly, I have no connection with the DW fanbase at all - but I can say DW isn't for me, and has an approach that I find different, to say the least, than the actual old school games it tries to emulate.

That said. People's fun are their own, and if you have fun with this game, then good. Game on! Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Welcome to the RPG Site.

I was feeling kinda similar about the Dungeon Crawl Classics fans lately. Not that they're hipsters but that there is little tolerance for criticism/naysaying... a bit too much hero worship of Goodman, Bishop and Stroh. It's kinda culty.
Still, I love the game (what little I've gotten to play of it) so I'm just gonna stay off of G+.

I'd buy DCC, if I needn't pay more for the dice than for the main book (I'd need to ship the dice in from EU).

This is the first time I have heard of fanboys acting like fanboys on G+. Not surprised thought.

I'm having fun with DW, but I suspect it's because of the group.

If anybody gives you any shit about any game, kick him in the nuts so hard blood squirts out his ears.

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This is the first time I have heard of fanboys acting like fanboys on G+. Not surprised thought.

That kid needs to learn some discipline.

Yeah the thing that mostly drive me away from a game is usually the community.  If you got a stuck up elitist community I don't really want to deal with that kind of crap.  Hell I left chats because how people treated other people.  

Seriously I had a friend of mine said that his group was acting like fucktards and not getting the hint in how to kill the monster in a hunter game.  OMG was he jumped on by one of the admins.  She was on his throat and I was the only voice of reason.  Being polite as I can I tried to diffused the whole thing.  Then she started to get on my case and accused me of bullshit.

I know my friend meant no ill will towards anyone one and it was just a harmless sentence.  This woman, however, went psycho on him.  Pretty much killed the happy environment.  My friend got the hint and left the chat.  When the owner came in I gave him my complaint and he sided with the admin.  So I left that chat.  No chat is worth watching a friend get jump on by some admin with agenda, or chip on his/her shoulder.

Quote from: Veilheim;725963BUT OH MY FUCKING GOD, the community surrounding DW (particularly on G+) is full of absolutely insufferable Gen-Y'ers who are convinced they and they alone can define what good right fun and bad wrong fun are.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.