I'm just afraid of more companies copying WOTC's playbook with worse results...

Quote from: ForgottenF on April 26, 2024, 09:05:34 AM

Quote from: Crazy_Blue_Haired_Chick on April 23, 2024, 08:10:19 AMBruh, my favorite mythologies are Norse, Aztec, and Japanese. Do you think that Xipe Totec could ever be sanitized?

https://mythopedia.com/topics/xipe-totec

What about Tanuki with their ginormous ballsacks?

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.onmarkproductions.com%2Fhtml%2Fslideshows%2Ftanuki-transparent-found-on-web.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=265c2b86e4ccdb3ee12868fc63288812426a1b327fec6231259487e946721234&ipo=images

Of course, all of you already know how problematic Norse mythology is, will all the white people and violence and such!

I don't like Greek Mythology a lot, but that's because it's like a never-ending soap opera/reality tv show where so many mortals and demi-gods get awful treatment for being at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Didn't the Mario games already sanitize the Tanuki?

Nobody wants to see those balls...

Quote from: Insane Nerd Ramblings on April 22, 2024, 08:39:07 PMhe only creatures that probably were inherently evil were Ungoliant and her spawn (Shelob, etc).

Even Ungoliant's a bit ambiguous as it's unclear if she is even apart of Arda and Eru's design or if she is some sort of byproduct of Malkor's corruption of reality.

Quote from: Ratman_tf on April 26, 2024, 06:23:01 PM

Quote from: GhostNinja on April 26, 2024, 12:22:21 PMI used to love Battletech.  Sadly, I think once Catalyst got ahold of it they made it more complicated and more out of reach for many players.

I have been picking at designing my own Battletech style game, without the stupid heat issues and fixing some of the stupidity found in the rules which has kind of pushed me away from Battletech.

I got the Catalyst Battletech box, and it seems to be the same as the FASA heat system. What exactly did they do to make it more complicated?

They didn't do anything to the heat system. However, they have bulked upt the rules to cover a lot of different things. If you play with the BattleMech Manual, you have a slimmed down but fairly robust (more so than Beginner Set) set of rules for 'Mechs. If you play with Total Warfare, you can add in almost every other type of unit for a moderate increase in complexity. Add in Tactical Operations, and you can complicate the hell out of things real quick with all sorts of special and/or optional rules, and there are even a few things beyond that if you buy into all the books.

Collage =/= College

Then O and AD&D were aimed at children too by that logic.

Quote from: Thor's Nads on March 06, 2024, 09:33:39 AM

This is a great map.  I am running an adventure in my Old School Essentials game using this map.   Characters entered on the second floor via the roof (wanted to avoid the gorgons on either side of the front door) and found a room with 6 boxes with perfectly preserved bodies.  Should be interesting.

Quote from: ForgottenF on April 26, 2024, 08:10:55 AMAlso is that where that came from? Calling elves "knife-ears" has become a bit of a meme at this point, to the point where it even made it into that shitty Rings of Power show. I was wondering who came up with it first.

I think its older than Dragon Age. But not sure when. I suspect it originated in Warhammer.

Quote from: Cipher on April 26, 2024, 03:37:17 AMThey already did this, with all the cries of "greenskins" being a racial slur and such. I've even seen some people claim that Dragon Age Origins calling elves "knife ears" was also a racial slur.

Yet they can call anyone else they target some sort of -ist or -phobe.
Its only wrong when someone else does it.

Quote from: Trond on April 26, 2024, 05:26:09 PMBy the way, why are we even having these conversations? Are people forgetting that murder is pretty common in RPGs, but we're supposed to worry about "consent"? IT'S A GAME FFS.

Because the woke always go after the low hanging fruit first. The easy targets and each wave tends to go in the same progression.

Think of the children!
Think of the women!
Think of the gays!
Think of the minorities!
Think of the handicapped!

Then they start going after the higher fruit as they locust their way through as much media as they can. Usually targeting anything to do with children first.

And by the time 5e came out there were already the same murmurings of "RPGs are ONLY about VIOLENCE because there are NO rules for TALKING to people!!!"