If you run or play D&D V, you're supporting Jeremy Crawford, who hates the OSR
Well that's per se not a sin. I mean his wokism is, but OSR is just like whatever...
Problem is. Its not going to happen because it didnt happen the last two times and will not happen either when the next iteration rolls around.
With each iteration theres been some lasting damage done to the gaming community. Some of the early stuff like the Satanic Panic witch hunts now only rare spots here and there or weird laws still enforced overseas. But the damage still persists. The 90s iteration was more invasive and closer to what we are seeing now. Just on a much milder tone overall. But the damage from that persists too in various mostly small ways.
That may not be the case with the current 2010 iteration as the damage is near systemic and shows little sign of abating any time soon. If anything they seem to be stepping up the madness. We are also facing long term infiltration and co-opting plans.
The only cold reassurance I get from all this is the fact that the 2030 iteration will near certainly turn on the current and declare THEM the vile nasty ist-ists. Because thats exactly what the 2010 iteration did to the 1990s iteration and what 90s did to 70s.
I'd say for RPGs to be de-wokised generational change has to occur among Western world youth.
Hard to say if it's possible, I'd say not in a short time.
The point is, it is NOT about making money and it is NOT about misguided leadership- we are dealing with a deliberate plan to bring down EVERYTHING. And that elite is NOT going to stop, ever.
Quite contrary - it's precisely about making money but really big players, cult of Mammon. Destabilisation of Western countries, serve to rise power, influence and income of great players.
Sure there are genuine revolutionists wishing to abolish West, but they would be just some autistic basement screechers without Uncle Dollar.
The SJWs are a mindless mass, merely obeying the orders of an elite that hates western society
Such claim can be made only by someone who never been on leftist forum or facebook group. SJWs shares some common morale but in terms of practical application and details they are divided in many aspects, and they spend a lot of time quarreling over minutia of their SJWism. Their groups are like regular shitstorms, often ending in schisms and splits (and I'm talking about basic leftbook not even dissidents in lieu of RadFems). Sure they are used by Big Guys in their actions, but they are not footsoldiers - they are too unruly for that. Footsoldiers are your mediocre big city corporate rats.
I was just using that as an example. They hate Tolkein because they were TOLD to hate Tolkein, because of whatever they were told. If they were told to like Tolkein because OF Galadriel and Eowyn, then they would love Tolkein.
But the point is - SJWs are dividen in subject of Tolkien, and often quarreling about it. Like I said - overall moral divisions are somehow defined, but application... no not really.
But Myths survive even the destruction of civilizations. I am definitely not sure if western civilization will survive; but I feel pretty confident that RPGs will, and they won't be the SJW versions of RPGs.
But RPG is not Myth (and even in terms of Myths I'm quite sure we lost vast amounts of them in our history. It's a hobby. Quite niche. Weird combination of hazard games, tactical maps from XIX century armies and traditional paleolithic campfire storytelling. It's short lived, lack massive popularity, and in most countries it's even more niche than in USA. And it generally needs nerds to fluorish. Civilisational collapse can very well take it away. Storytelling will survive of course. Other things... not so sure. Depends of scope.
Let's say you're a gamer, and you've been thrown back in time somehow to prehistoric times. Assuming you run into other people, and you learn the language well enough, you would be all it takes to teach that tribe how to play RPGs. You'd need some kind of randomizer (say, Cowrie shells or something) and that's it.
I'm too busy to survive. And if we're down to paleolithic even with some dices (not good enough probably) - you won't have time, materials and so on to craft proper RPGs so it probably devolves to separate hazard dicing and separate storytelling. And people busy with everyday survival may very well - just don't need RPGs.
People tend to think of Tolkein as having written an epic high fantasy, but believe it or not he wasn't, not really. Unlike Greek mythology ancient English mythology was wiped out, forgotten- King Arthur, Merlin, Excalibur, Robin Hood, are all relatively recent. So Tolkein actually tried to fill in that gap. So the loss of mythology has happened before; cultures have been wiped out before and their legends with them.
Only not. Ancient English mythology is... West Germanic mythology. Angles were kin to Frisians and Saxons, old English simmilar to modern Frisian and Low Saxon languages.
Their mythology was West Germanic mythology and that's not forgotten. And before them there were Brittons - from whom Welsh and Cornish remains as cultures - and we still have quite good grasp of their mythology. Whole problem for Tolkien was that England lacks ancient mythology - because it's not ancient. It's hybrid nation that came from various Germanic folk and Celts, and remanant of Roman culture, and Normandian French - all merged together. And neither of original mythologies really suited what England become with time. That's why in Middle-Earth we have hobbits, almost contemporary to Tolkien English rustic folk, we have old Anglosaxons in Rohirrim, we have ancient Roman Empire in Gondor, fae/aelfs/sidhe in Elves, and so on.
And English was formed as Christian country - Anglosaxons conquered Christian Celts and were quickly Christians themselves, so there is no real Pagan England.
King Arthur and Merlin are probably remnants of some pre-English Celtic stories, later modified by ages.
Jean-Luc Picard is now a wimpy old loser. Luke Skywalker is a pathetic hermit.
It's called getting old and crochety.
If more and more things become a hate crime, then who will dare even play the old stuff since spy technology is vastly superior to anything the former Soviet Union ever had?
I.
And it most likely won't happen in our lifetime, if anywhere. The alliance between Cult of Mammon and SJWs is... quite fragile, and it can turn in various interesting ways.
Under normal capitalist rules Marvel comics should have collapsed completely by now, with or without Covid-19, but they are still here. Haven't you wondered how?
Marvel Comics survive precisely because of normal capitalist rules - because it's owner is willing to print them, and has enough money to do it. That's as normal capitalism as it's goes, unless they took some grand government dotations.