Thank you so much for this topic.  I actually started a company and was getting close to putting out my first product but all I encountered was hostility for not being "woke."  I had given up for more than two years before happening across this thread.  I will reach out to some of these companies rather than the ones I had previously.  I can confirm Evil Hat is as radical as they get.  If a video surfaced with them eating aborted babies and using the blood in feminist goddess rituals I would be as surprised as if it rained tomorrow.  I was blackballed for having the nerve to state a sovereign nation had the right to decide its own laws regarding gay marriage!

Quote from: soundchaser on May 18, 2022, 11:35:03 AM
If folks want some interesting ammo for argument, this blog post dropped today. It goes over the 'mass of cells' moral idiocy pretty well.

https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2022/05/18/aquinas-on-when-human-life-begins/

This is an off-topic post. Maybe you didn't see my warning to everyone else who was making off-topic posts? Do not continue to post off-topic or you will be banned.

Quote from: Ironvein on May 18, 2022, 04:54:44 PM
Thank you so much for this topic.  I actually started a company and was getting close to putting out my first product but all I encountered was hostility for not being "woke."  I had given up for more than two years before happening across this thread.  I will reach out to some of these companies rather than the ones I had previously.  I can confirm Evil Hat is as radical as they get.  If a video surfaced with them eating aborted babies and using the blood in feminist goddess rituals I would be as surprised as if it rained tomorrow.  I was blackballed for having the nerve to state a sovereign nation had the right to decide its own laws regarding gay marriage!

Welcome! And be sure to tell us about your game.

Quote from: Ironvein on May 18, 2022, 04:54:44 PM
Thank you so much for this topic.  I actually started a company and was getting close to putting out my first product but all I encountered was hostility for not being "woke."  I had given up for more than two years before happening across this thread.  I will reach out to some of these companies rather than the ones I had previously.  I can confirm Evil Hat is as radical as they get.  If a video surfaced with them eating aborted babies and using the blood in feminist goddess rituals I would be as surprised as if it rained tomorrow.  I was blackballed for having the nerve to state a sovereign nation had the right to decide its own laws regarding gay marriage!

what company?
what game?
who are you, again?
I seem to have missed that part.
the part where your say your company name, your name as an author, and the name of your book...
the part where you give solid factual statements with evidence.

because, this place is filling up with bots and wannabe "viral" outrage pushers.
its practically a C.I.A. MKUltra mindjob in here.

1 post.
really?

let me demonstrate.

My name is Chad Hale
I wrote the "Tome of Psionics" for Pathfinder 2e.
I took it down, because of all the hate I was getting:
Amazon, Drive thru, Paizo, Reddit, Discord.

why? because I am sick of the "WOKETARDS"
demanding safe spaces in comic books, Card games, RPGs...
Then the same WOKETARDS banning everyone who isn't into their sexual fetish.
the gist of what they say boils down to;
"Oh, woe is me, I am a helpless marginalized victim. give me Moderator status"... (and then)
"if you aren't for anus licking or Chicks-with-dicks you are a transphobe and MUST BE BANNED!"

I ask. does any of that Bullshit belong in any game played by underage children?
My answer is and will always be NO.

I assumed by having a single post I would be recognized as new here.  I know this may be hard for you to believe, but ttrpg communities exist outside of this one!

You come off as overly hostile for no apparent reason but I don't mind answering your questions.

James McCann
My company was/is Wampus Inc.
My first game to be put out is titled "Legends of Amariah"
You won't find much about me or my company.  I didn't require financial backing to put out the product as a decent sized first print run was under 20k.  As I stated I grew discouraged by the wokeness.  I kept a lot of the setting ideas and am working on a fantasy novel/series with them and have kept the artwork in case I decide to do something with it in the future.

Not sure what you want evidence of?  I have included some cover art for the game (my artist's name is Jason).

If everyone is as friendly as you I think my post total will remain at 2

Cover art : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tl6dCgY4NWoBIH6YJkSlWWtcD00M6-6v/view?usp=sharing

Quote from: Ironvein on May 19, 2022, 10:55:35 AM
I assumed by having a single post I would be recognized as new here.  I know this may be hard for you to believe, but ttrpg communities exist outside of this one!

You come off as overly hostile for no apparent reason but I don't mind answering your questions.

James McCann
My company was/is Wampus Inc.
My first game to be put out is titled "Legends of Amariah"
You won't find much about me or my company.  I didn't require financial backing to put out the product as a decent sized first print run was under 20k.  As I stated I grew discouraged by the wokeness.  I kept a lot of the setting ideas and am working on a fantasy novel/series with them and have kept the artwork in case I decide to do something with it in the future.

Not sure what you want evidence of?  I have included some cover art for the game (my artist's name is Jason).

If everyone is as friendly as you I think my post total will remain at 2

Cover art : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tl6dCgY4NWoBIH6YJkSlWWtcD00M6-6v/view?usp=sharing

Welcome to the forums, James. Please do not mind him. He is the socially stunted reverse side of the coin he hates. Given his propensity for off topic political rants plus going around calling people faggots all the time, it will only be a matter of time before the mask fully slips and you see Banned under his name. They all get there eventually.

When and where you do find conversation around RPGs, I think you'll enjoy it here. Again, welcome!

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Ah, a good list here.

Sometimes, a license will suck me in, which is the purpose of acquiring the license. Modiphius' "Dune" is the recent example. (I went fully evil and chose the Amazon-Harkonnen variant. F-ck the Atreides.) Yes, the "Diversity" boilerplate did make me roll my eyes.

I wonder if "Consider (i.e. THOU SHALT INCLUDE) Diversity" word-vomit text blocks will be as common as the useless "What is Roleplaying" filler sections... but what a useless waste of space that is in a fictional universe like "Dune" where eugenics programs are part of the hero's landscape.

In my mind, if a player needs to read a section on "Diversity" to play a game, then that player is probably a waste of space, anyway. (Putting in a block of text that someone ought to know before reading the text? That's performance by Modiphius, at best.) Ditto to anyone who requires the "What is Roleplaying" filler, I think. Quite frankly, we need better gatekeeping if the idiots who require "Diversity" boiler plate materials in their murder hobo rulebooks are bullying TTRPG companies into diversity theatre/performative activism, so the entire "What is Roleplaying" section has been actively harmful if the current state of gaming is a result of those efforts. F-ck that noise.

"Dune" strikes me as the yin and yang, duality of man, Jungian thing of a TT RPG book. (And coming from a company that also produces the "KULT" RPG, which doesn't have a "THOU SHALT Diversity for Diversity's Sake" text box since it's more than yesterday years old.) If a player needs "safe space", then playing in a universe like "Dune" is like going full retard... just like "ALIEN" and facehuggers, which didn't need such warnings. GTFO if you need a safe Bene Gesserit sisterhood, IMO.

Of course, we exist in a universe where being a murder hobo has to be diverse and safe for marginalized peoples.

(Re: "Dune"... FRIA LIGAN's "Coriolis" does Agent-level play so much better (along with the "exotic" and "Arab"-themed universe, no less). What's yet to be realized in "Dune" is the potential for "Crusader Kings"-style Architect-level play, which is barely fleshed out. There's just so much wasted potential with 2d20 "Dune", in many many ways. There's the makings of something good there, handcuffed by a lot of safe choices and safe spaces.)

Welcome bromides!

Space witches in the year 10,000 would eat today's wokists alive!

Sucks to hear the Dune is getting cluttered with woke meta-rules.

Welcome Bromides

Woke is the mind-killer

Woke men make hard times.
Hard times make hard men.
Hard men make good times.
Good times make soft men woke.

Is Osprey Games on the list? They've made a few RPGs that are surprisingly interesting. They added the wargames to the military history library, then added the role playing games. I don't recall seeing a DEI statement on their website.

I own "Paleomythic" and "Those Dark Spaces", which don't come with the "Diversity is Strength" boiler plate, Big Brother propaganda.

They do some quality work, and those two titles are single book/self-contained RPGs (like most of their rpg line). The authors provide some additional scenarios and supplemental ideas either on their personal websites or under their own brand on dtrpg (and separate from Osprey, whose PDFs are very high in cost relative to the dead tree format.).

Osprey is moderate. It was mentioned earlier in the thread (or maybe another thread, I don't remember) that they just let designers do what they want.

(edit: I meant 'centrist', not 'moderate'. Haha)

Quote from: Ironvein on May 19, 2022, 10:55:35 AM
James McCann
My company was/is Wampus Inc.
My first game to be put out is titled "Legends of Amariah"

Cover art : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tl6dCgY4NWoBIH6YJkSlWWtcD00M6-6v/view?usp=sharing

Yeah, I called my company "Dirtirogue publishing" all I have is the name.
Nice cover art.

I am just exceedingly weary and warry of manipulation efforts, and the tactics of the Left.
If that makes me vitriolic, it is just like the meme; "Who radicalized you? you did."
I have been attacked online relentlessly since August 2019 after publishing my book on DTRPG.
as a result, I get pissy when I see someone "Doing it again" to someone else.

its like, for reals? you are going to attack someone for making a game? for writing a book?
oh, all the rally calls and demands for "Action" are somethiing else...
something evil.

a virtual lynch mob, and sockpuppet doesn't like that the shit can't whip us all into doing what the shit wants.