Tommorow, 7:30pm Central, it's Inappropriate Characters! Guest starring Greg Gillespie, creator of Barrowmaze!
We'll be talking about him, his new book Dwarrowdeep and all the news and controversy in the #ttrpg #dnd and #osr hobbies!
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First time watcher of Inappropriate Characters here -- can someone tell me who FloridaManRPG is? I didn't see any links accompanying the video besides those for the other three panelists.
Quote from: Zalman on July 04, 2022, 09:18:11 AM
First time watcher of Inappropriate Characters here -- can someone tell me who FloridaManRPG is? I didn't see any links accompanying the video besides those for the other three panelists.
His name is Joel, he's gone by HentaiDaddy<some numbers> before, and he's the tech-guy that makes the podcast work. He also publishes some stuff, but I honestly can't recall any of it.
Quote from: HappyDaze on July 04, 2022, 10:54:17 AM
Quote from: Zalman on July 04, 2022, 09:18:11 AM
First time watcher of Inappropriate Characters here -- can someone tell me who FloridaManRPG is? I didn't see any links accompanying the video besides those for the other three panelists.
His name is Joel, he's gone by HentaiDaddy<some numbers> before, and he's the tech-guy that makes the podcast work. He also publishes some stuff, but I honestly can't recall any of it.
Cheers.
He's Jobe Bittman. He most recently wrote The Book of Antitheses for Lamentations of the Flame Princess, and previously wrote a number of adventures and supplements for Dungeon Crawl Classics.
Quote from: RPGPundit on July 04, 2022, 07:00:48 PM
He's Jobe Bittman. He most recently wrote The Book of Antitheses for Lamentations of the Flame Princess, and previously wrote a number of adventures and supplements for Dungeon Crawl Classics.
Thanks!
I missed being on the livestream so watched it later. Having Greg as guest was awesome. Thanks
Thanks to Greg!
Caught this late as well.
In terms of pure gaming discussion this is one of the best episodes yet.
I really liked at how at 25:00 in Greg hit the nail on the head of how being Self-Referential just makes everything Fucking Suck.
In WotC D&D's case that this was done intentionally:
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Johnathan Tweet: 3e-and-the-feel-of-D&D
https://www.enworld.org/threads/3e-and-the-feel-of-d-d.667269/
Tweet openly talks about excising any references of or to real-world mythology when worldbuilding for official 3e D&D.
Making the game entirely self-referential.
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"...one part of the process I enjoyed was describing the world of D&D in its own terms, rather than referring to real-world history and mythology. When writing roleplaying games, I enjoy helping the player get immersed in the setting, and I always found these references to the real world to be distractions."
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"...by the time we were working on 3rd Ed, D&D had had such a big impact on fantasy that we basically used D&D as its own source."
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"We were fortunate that by 2000 D&D had such a strong legacy that it could stand on its own without reference to Earth history or mythology."
https://bradfordcwalker.blogspot.com/2022/07/narrative-warfare-benefits-of-treating.html"A healthy hobby scene maintains its connection to its roots, and shuns becoming so insular and self-referential that it disappears up its own ass."D&D being made self-referential by people who actively hate historical Western Myth and Legend, and continuing that status with current WotC employee's is a bigger factor than most give credit for when wondering why official D&D is heading in its current direction.
Absolutely. One of the reasons for the success of my products is that I realize that history, mythology, legend and real world influences are more sophisticated and interesting and carry more symbolic weight than things that I just make up for myself.