Just got my copy of Kids on Bikes and am sitting here stunned and a little disgusted. WTF with all the mamby pamby, snowflake, warnings and suggested mechanisms to avoid wounding itsy bitsy tender sensibilities? Have you read this crap? Tapping a card when the GM takes the game in a direction that gives you cooties? Turning a failed roll into a success with consequences if the player gets upset? Changing historical attitudes and elements if someone finds them uncomfortable? Geeze this is a very short little book and a third of it is committed to wet nursing brats. I was half expecting a diaper changing and burping chapter. Is this where gaming is going? God help us.

Quote from: rgrove0172;1059831Just got my copy of Kids on Bikes and am sitting here stunned and a little disgusted. WTF with all the mamby pamby, snowflake, warnings and suggested mechanisms to avoid wounding itsy bitsy tender sensibilities? Have you read this crap? Tapping a card when the GM takes the game in a direction that gives you cooties? Turning a failed roll into a success with consequences if the player gets upset? Changing historical attitudes and elements if someone finds them uncomfortable? Geeze this is a very short little book and a third of it is committed to wet nursing brats. I was half expecting a diaper changing and burping chapter. Is this where gaming is going? God help us.

Greetings!

Hello there! What kind of game is this "Kids on Bikes?" Who publishes it?

I know. It is absolutely disgusting. The SJW people literally corrupt and pollute everything they touch, everything they seek to get involved with, somehow, becomes a pathetic, whining bowl of insane jello before long. Everything has to be "sensitive." Everything has to be baby-jelly bland, because you dare not speak or write about *ANYTHING* that is not mind-numbingly banal and mundane, because to hope to speak about or write about a topic more meaningful than such means that, yes: you amp up your chances that someone, somewhere, somehow, will cry and whine that you offended them. No matter how trivial, petty, twisted or grotesque and baseless such an accusation is, the crowd is soon gathered, to begin chanting that--
You are a Nazi!
You are a Mysogynist!
You are a Bigot!
You are a Racist!
You are a Homophobe!

This is what they have become. They turn everything they touch into gibbering, worthless jello. I'm sad to see a game you had high hopes for be essentially destroyed and corrupted by crazy Marxist-koolaid drinking nutjobs.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

https://www.renegadegamestudios.com/kids-on-bikes/

I haven't read Kids on Bikes, but if all that is true I'm glad I passed on it. Sadly, I can't say that I'm surprised as I've seen that sort of stuff before in other games. If you're looking for alternatives, there's always Dark Places & Demogorgons (if you prefer OSR games) as well as Tales from the Loop. Personally, I'm waiting on The Monster Hunters' Club to release for Savage Worlds.

But can I pretend to be Winona Ryder's chain smoking, frantic, single mom? Or do I need bowling gutter bumpers for a safe time.

Quote from: rgrove0172;1059831Just got my copy of Kids on Bikes and am sitting here stunned and a little disgusted. WTF with all the mamby pamby, snowflake, warnings and suggested mechanisms to avoid wounding itsy bitsy tender sensibilities? Have you read this crap? Tapping a card when the GM takes the game in a direction that gives you cooties? Turning a failed roll into a success with consequences if the player gets upset? Changing historical attitudes and elements if someone finds them uncomfortable? Geeze this is a very short little book and a third of it is committed to wet nursing brats. I was half expecting a diaper changing and burping chapter. Is this where gaming is going? God help us.

I expected nothing different from this game after a very brief look at the DriveThruRPG preview (it has page 3 in there). What were you expecting?

Maybe try Little Fears instead? :confused:

Other offerings from RENEGADE GAME STUDIOS include:

Arboretum
Circus Puppy
Doggy Go!
Kitty Paw
Pie Town
Shiba Inu House
Sundae Split
The Tea Dragon Society Card Game (Discover the ancient art form of Tea Dragon care taking within this enchanting world of friendship and fantasy. Create a bond between yourself and your Tea Dragon that grows as you progress through the seasons creating memories to share forever.)

Quote from: Skarg;1059844Other offerings from RENEGADE GAME STUDIOS include:

Arboretum
Circus Puppy
Doggy Go!
Kitty Paw
Pie Town
Shiba Inu House
Sundae Split
The Tea Dragon Society Card Game (Discover the ancient art form of Tea Dragon care taking within this enchanting world of friendship and fantasy. Create a bond between yourself and your Tea Dragon that grows as you progress through the seasons creating memories to share forever.)

Holy crap, your shitting me. Looks like I'll be sticking to WOD Innocents

Quote from: rgrove0172;1059831Just got my copy of Kids on Bikes and am sitting here stunned and a little disgusted. WTF with all the mamby pamby, snowflake, warnings and suggested mechanisms to avoid wounding itsy bitsy tender sensibilities? Have you read this crap? Tapping a card when the GM takes the game in a direction that gives you cooties? Turning a failed roll into a success with consequences if the player gets upset? Changing historical attitudes and elements if someone finds them uncomfortable? Geeze this is a very short little book and a third of it is committed to wet nursing brats. I was half expecting a diaper changing and burping chapter. Is this where gaming is going? God help us.

Well, for one, it is written for 8-11 year olds and not the tender sensibilities of wingnuts who want to politicize RPGs.

If you want to pretend to be a kid again with a more mature game, pick up Tales from the Loop.

Quote from: rgrove0172;1059831Just got my copy of Kids on Bikes and am sitting here stunned and a little disgusted. WTF with all the mamby pamby, snowflake, warnings and suggested mechanisms to avoid wounding itsy bitsy tender sensibilities? Have you read this crap? Tapping a card when the GM takes the game in a direction that gives you cooties? Turning a failed roll into a success with consequences if the player gets upset? Changing historical attitudes and elements if someone finds them uncomfortable? Geeze this is a very short little book and a third of it is committed to wet nursing brats. I was half expecting a diaper changing and burping chapter. Is this where gaming is going? God help us.

Welcome to the world of indie narrative gaming, circa 2018.

Quote from: FeloniousMonk;1059884Well, for one, it is written for 8-11 year olds and not the tender sensibilities of wingnuts who want to politicize RPGs.

There's nothing on the DriveThruRPG page or the publisher's website that suggests it's for kids any more than "Tales from the Loop" is. Where do you see it's meant for 8-11 year olds?

Quote from: Kane;1059991Where do you see it's meant for 8-11 year olds?

That's the emotional age limit of the storygame crowd.

The penalties to 8-year-old's AC and THAC0 from riding a bike make this concept unworkable. Someone needs to convert this to GURPS for it to really work.

Maybe I'm a wimp, but I don't recall being offended by PC stuff when I read the rulebook. I guess there is a "be careful when you play in public because someone might not get it" sort of disclaimer in the book, but otherwise I guess I blipped right over the rest. I'm more focused on the big picture than the specifics, however, so I probably just didn't notice all of the statements that are annoying others in this thread.

As to the question of the intended age range of the players, characters can be kids or teens or adults so I'm not sure that it's aimed at a particular demographic of gamers. As to whether the story game crowd has a particular age range, I assume that is dependent upon the group and was just posted here in this thread to be snarky -- I haven't noticed that story game players are particularly more or less mature than other gamers, but they are clearly in general more interested in plotlines than combats.