Man I found the reddit thread, some of those guys are so high on haterade it is unbelievable.

"Ancestry" makes little to no sense when it's referring to a species.  Being human isn't our ancestry, it's our species.  If you take a human and raise them with elves they don't suddenly get nightvision and pointy ears.  I've never had any particular objection to changing "race" to "species", as that just seems more accurate to me.  I get that it sounds more sci-fi than race does so may be jarring in a fantasy game, but it doesn't really bother me.  Ancestry, on the other hand, is wildly inaccurate.

Published a new YouTube video about the SAKE combat system:

I checked Drive Thru RPG, and it's still featured on the front page.

I know that there is a lot of trash that won't sell more than 10 copies on that site but it's still an accomplishment either way.

Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on November 06, 2023, 08:37:36 AMIf it does, then it will exacerbate the climate crisis. Why care about the deteriorating Earth when you can live in VR?

I'm currently working on a tabletop setting where people use VR to distract themselves from the worsening climate crisis. And by worsening, I mean people have to wear protective gear to go outside.

You know you might be onto the next big science fiction novel.

Quote from: RPGPundit on May 04, 2024, 06:24:41 PMA question: has anyone here seen any actual Ads on drivethru for Baptism of Fire?
Mad Scribe spent money to have some, but even though I'm currently frequently going to DTRPG to check the status of the book, I haven't seen a single ad. I want to know if anyone else has.

I've been paying attention, and have taken the opportunity to refresh the main page a few dozen times each of the last couple days and have not seen an ad for BoF. 

The most charitable interpretation is that something like "ancestry" allows for a human raised by elves or something.

Which is one of those "nice on paper" ideas, but then you realize even that is stupid because that's something that didn't happen until Last Tuesday.

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Quote from: HappyDaze on May 04, 2024, 03:06:41 AMI saw Fall Guy and thought it was great with a good mix of action and humor.

Another movie remake of an old TV show? Why? Hollywood truly is bankrupt of new ideas.

  I think they were bankrupt a long time ago we are just getting old enough to see the rehash/recycle.

You've almost gotten to the realization that the problem might not be entirely with them, but also with you.

  Oh certainly getting old enough to have frame of reference for history in one's own lifetime is certainly a bit of a problem.  Patterns form. 

Problematic is one of my favorite words.  One need not even explain the problem, just use that word and the person listening then must scour their minds to determine the problem themselves.  Best word ever.

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Quote from: Monero on May 02, 2024, 10:03:18 AMThe TTRPG community has ALWAYS been about kindness and human dignity. It's just older creators/players didn't have to do performative nonsense in order to gain social media dopamine hits.

It does suck that you have to do that. But for whatever reason, there are a lot of people on this site who seem to feel they have to keep congratulating each other for saying the same tired and basically baseless things.

I was definitely queer before social media existed at all, so honestly I have no idea what you are going on about.

I hadn't even gone through puberty yet, when I started playing characters that explored the frontiers of gender. I didn't even have a clear understanding in my mind of what it meant. I just knew that I didn't fit the rules of gender presentation as they were taught to me, and eventually, it became a vehicle of self-exploration.

I had dated men and women before the Player's Options books ever saw print.

I played in an all-Hispanic adult game of D&D under the 3.0 rules-set, before 3.5 was ever printed.

I never jumped on any bandwagon. I was very much a part of the generation that brought RPGs into the mainstream, and I brought all these personal characteristics with me.

You say "performative nonsense," I say, I'm sorry it hurts your feelings that I exist. Go hug a teddy bear.

Bolding mine.

Why does gender have a frontier?

Gender: The Final Frontier!

To boldly go where no neopronouns have gone before!