Quote from: JeremyR on May 19, 2024, 11:26:42 PMWhich would work for an original game, but not a retro clone of AD&D which used 100s of the monsters from ToH in its 2nd edition.

There's about 5 OGLed totally not Illithids. It's more work to create your own versions of the monsters but not impossible.

IF you were to release the bestiary as CC By I bet lots of people would help you to do the work.

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Quote from: Insane Nerd Ramblings on Today at 11:32:04 AMThen claiming 'its always been that way' when it was really them cribbing a piss poor, badly researched, low effort and moronic fanfic from the CanonFire! boards.

Please expound on this...I am curious.

Also, bear in mind that the people we're complaining about start from the conclusion that they don't like D&D and then go in looking for reasons to dislike it.  Much like my friend on his return from church school.  (after which he decided Billy Joel was God so his parents bought him a piano)

I have been a fan of Greyhawk since I got the gold box back in the 1980s. I have absolutely zero faith that WotC won't fuck it up. They already did so in 3E by taking what was a post-apocalyptic Swords & Sorcery setting, with a dash of High Fantasy, and turn it upside down. It wasn't JUST the ridiculous inflation of population of the Flanaess, but as time went on they kept shitting on the setting's lore, like the merging of Natasha the Dark, Tasha the Laughing Mage and The Witch-Queen of Perrenland Iggwilv instead of having 3 separate and distinctive characters (as they had always been). Then claiming 'its always been that way' when it was really them cribbing a piss poor, badly researched, low effort and moronic fanfic from the CanonFire! boards.

Quote from: yosemitemike on Today at 09:16:07 AMPeople who "fix" art are worthless pieces of shit who should be collectively euthanized for the betterment of humanity.  Fuck these smug, self-important assholes.  I fucking detest these people.

Like I said, I love watching it blow up in their face. Its especially egregious in a certain segment of anime Twitter where a specific demographic of normies/LARPers/interlopers love to 'recolor' existing white characters. These midwits did that to the little girl Anya from Spy x Family BEFORE the series aired and then promptly got their teeth kicked in when the episodes dropped and their shitty art was flipped back on them.

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Quote from: Neonsmri on May 19, 2024, 10:07:26 AMSo question, how long is the redemption period on a company? While companies like Evil Hat continue to be who they are, let's take one of the milder ones. Pelgrane published Cthulhu Confidential 7 years ago, and the line in question was most likely from Chris Spivey who is no longer affiliated with the company. So, the question is, what has Pelgrane done since then? Is a company just a permanent pariah from that point forward with no hope of ever coming back. I can see Paizo, WotC, Evil Hat and ones like that who continue to promote the same drivel, but shouldn't there be a statute of limitations that if they don't continue to spout nonsense in their products, they can be moved up the list just as one could be moved down or added?

(But then the list is pretty static, and even with Catalyst going Full woke, firing Blaine Pardo, embracing and promoting Trans mechs, and hiring a super woke community manager that has attempted to purge anyone right of Stalin out of the community, it is still sitting on yellow)

I suppose the answer is until they prove repeatedly over time that they don't belong there anymore and anyone who contributed to putting them on that list (whether creative or executive) is gone.   They choose by their words/actions to get their and that's how they choose to get off.   A decade ago I'd have said when the crazies complain that they're not "politically correct" enough but their supposed line in the sand is a doodle on a dune in a sandstorm that shifts with every wind gust for the woke; what was supposedly tolerant a decade ago is at best just not good enough nowadays.

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Quote from: Insane Nerd Ramblings on May 16, 2024, 01:30:39 AM

QuoteAnd soon the Tolkienesque template of D&D began to chafe, as did the varied inheritors of Tolkien's literary imaginings. (The other great influence on D&D's world-building, Robert E. Howard, especially his Conan works, held no appeal for me whatsoever, as there was no beauty, no grace, no romance—just blood, brutality, butchery, and overt racism.) As much as I loved Middle-earth, it was still a world where lordship was borne in the blood, where inheriting country gentry were served faithfully by loving and dutiful servants, of the uncertain triumph of "Western civilization" over the dark and fallen peoples who stood against it. And while Tolkien's orcs and their filmic, gaming, and media iterations have been shaped by and expanded on savagist anti-Black and anti-Asian stereotypes, they're also informed by stereotypical ideas about Indigenous primitivism (as are his Drúedain, the reclusive Woses who aid the Rohirrim on their way to the Battle of the Pelennor Fields).

I'm convinced this stupid motherfucker has never read The Lord of the Rings, let alone any other part of Tolkien's legendarium to spout such dishonest pseudo-inllectual bullshit. Never mind the fact he sounds like someone that probably bullied real D&D players in high school and only 'saw the light' when he figured out he could grift.

I'm pretty sure he's never read any Howard either. No beauty? Good luck finding an ugly woman in Howard's works. They're there, but few and far between. No grace? In Conan's first story, he's saved at the will of a god to save the world from evil. No romance? Conan often gave up his dreams to save a woman. And these claims of "overt racism" never seem to have any evidence. I think the thing that they despise there is the chapter in The Hour of the Dragon, where Conan frees a boat-load of black slaves, and leads them to slaughter their white masters. North American leftists will never get over how much that feels like what the Republicans did to the Democrats in the American Civil War.

What the guy is parroting there is the common stereotype of Conan among people who've never read Howard. It's a stereotype that arises from people parodying the many 80s knockoffs of the film and comic book adaptations of Conan, so it's about 5 steps removed from the original.