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Halloween Jack posted:City-State of the Invincible Overlord was a hugely influential product. The Wilderlands of High Fantasy was one of the first "campaign settings," and the eponymous book was released before World of Greyhawk and a decade before the Forgotten Realms Campaign Set. drat. Possibly the best (as opposed to the oldest) work Judge's Guild ever did and two of the best D&D modules ever, were Dark Tower and Caverns of Thracia by Jennell Jacquays. She is decidedly not a Nazi, so I checked her Facebook. She has a statement - and apparently it's all work for hire Jennell's Facebook posted:I'm aware of the drama shitstorm surrounding Judges Guild right now.
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Halloween Jack posted:TSR was also slow to realize that there was an audience for the RPG hobby beyond people who quibble over uniforms and rank insignia of the Napoleonic wars. Part of the reason D&D is so perennially confused as to what sort of game it is boils down to it having two astonishingly different audiences in the early days - the wargamers, for whom much of the tactical stuff was targeted, and genre fandom, who brought in more emphasis on story and treating your character as a role to explore rather than just your playing piece.
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Feb 11, 2020 23:15
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StratGoatCom posted:It's more that it's a constant nonstop yea at this point Judges' Guild is a pretty nothing company to most everyone but it's more that it's so rare you see one of these guys go 100% full on 'the jew', usually it's just kinda the run of the mill 'look I'm just saying women can't handle being in a game and that's because they're dumb not because I had a 20 minute rape scene in her first session' shithead stuff. Don't see a lot of 'YEA THE JEW MEDIA LIES ABOUT HATE CRIMES AND THE BLACKS ARE SAVAGES, WHAT OF IT?!' Also it does blow that such a historic kinda part of the hobby is headed by such a complete scumbag.
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I went and read that thread, and I'm aghast. No, they're not defending Bledsaw, they're just being obnoxiously pedantic to one another for no apparent reason. It's worse than TheRPGSite, and I don't say that lightly.
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Halloween Jack posted:I went and read that thread, and I'm aghast. No, they're not defending Bledsaw, they're just being obnoxiously pedantic to one another for no apparent reason. It's worse than TheRPGSite, and I don't say that lightly. The "no politics" rule there is pernicious and makes it impossible to discuss nazis in 2020 context.
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dwarf74 posted:lmao, predictably over on ENworld, Celebrim has already made the story all about him and his oppression as a conservative white catholic. Jesus, I want to stuff this dipshit in a locker.
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Halloween Jack posted:I went and read that thread, and I'm aghast. No, they're not defending Bledsaw, they're just being obnoxiously pedantic to one another for no apparent reason. It's worse than TheRPGSite, and I don't say that lightly. Are you sure? Because the RPG Site thread contains takes such as: "It's a shame he is an anti-semite and dislikes all Jews. The Jews on CNN are bad, but some Jews like Ben Shapiro are very good." And: "Some of those racist posts are actually fair and accurate, if you assume he's not being racist".
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Oh, I just meant as regards the general forums culture of being pointlessly antagonistic because, well, TheRPGSite was founded on being a haven for the banned. Politically, it's even worse. Much worse.
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I am hearing through the OSR grapevine that Goodman has cut them loose, too. I have no link to share; take that as the hearsay it is.
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Feb 12, 2020 04:33
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I did not wake up expecting to see the word 'holohoax' today but here we are.
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Feb 12, 2020 04:38
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Dawgstar posted:I did not wake up expecting to see the word 'holohoax' today but here we are.
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So Bob II and Bob III are lovely; I bet the late Bob I was lovely too if he raised a son and grandson to be like that. I'm glad I've never given Judges Guild a single penny in my life.
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Halloween Jack posted:Oh, I just meant as regards the general forums culture of being pointlessly antagonistic because, well, TheRPGSite was founded on being a haven for the banned. Politically, it's even worse. Much worse. Thats true. Posters on the RPG Site are pretty much in furious agreement about their terrible opinions.
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Lumbermouth posted:Jesus, I want to stuff this dipshit in a locker. His position was - and I swear I'm not making this up - "The people making the hobby safer are the real sexists because they are depriving women of the opportunity to confront sexism and abusiveness." Only he used about 13,000 words for it.
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Is he Somebody? It seems despite ENW's lovely modding he gets a talking-to pretty often anyway. Why is he still there?
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That Old Tree posted:Is he Somebody? It seems despite ENW's lovely modding he gets a talking-to pretty often anyway. Why is he still there? It's super hard to get actually banned from enworld. And he's adept at playing the "I'm not touching you" game that place engenders.
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dwarf74 posted:I am hearing through the OSR grapevine that Goodman has cut them loose, too. There should be an announcement soon. There’s something more that Goodman is going to do, but it was need to know and I didn’t. The footing is precarious, because they were about to put out Jennell Jaquays’s compiled collector’s edition.
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It's pretty cool that every time someone starts getting upset about people painting the OSR with too broad a brush somebody inevitably comes along and goes full mask off.
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Kai Tave posted:It's pretty cool that every time someone starts getting upset about people painting the OSR with too broad a brush somebody inevitably comes along and goes full mask off. The Bledsaws themselves aren't OSR people, and the OSR people who are licensing stuff from them seem to be universally unreservedly cutting ties as part of this. I'm not sure what else you want.
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That Old Tree posted:Is he Somebody? It seems despite ENW's lovely modding he gets a talking-to pretty often anyway. Why is he still there?
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The Bledsaws are "in the RPG industry" in the same sense that Harmony Gold is "part of the anime industry". 
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Also: happy one-year anniversary to the last time Mike "The Abuser's Friend" Mearls made a public statement about anything. https://twitter.com/mikemearls/status/1095486649977384960
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BattleMaster posted:So Bob II and Bob III are lovely; I bet the late Bob I was lovely too if he raised a son and grandson to be like that. I'm glad I've never given Judges Guild a single penny in my life. There's a couple of posts on RPG.net from people who knew or met Bob I and they say he wasn't.
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Halloween Jack posted:TSR was also slow to realize that there was an audience for the RPG hobby beyond people who quibble over uniforms and rank insignia of the Napoleonic wars. Has anyone written Arthur Wellesley's exciting adventures in the Penisuala as a RPG or fantasy novel? Swap the black powder for bows and swords and catapults and add some magic and evil clerics to stand in for the French.
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Comstar posted:evil clerics to stand in for the French. What's there to change?
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Xiahou Dun posted:What's there to change? Convert the Highlander battalions to Amazons wearing skirts.
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PST posted:TotalCon 2017 - 100% male guests of honour Also, let me tell you how bad of a warning sign it is. You forgot I told you that they snubbed a women game designer who attended the convention while recovering from severe injuries (Linda Zayas Palmer). Not only did they snub the women there is a non zero chance that they tried to deflect criticism using her co-worker (Tonya Woodbridge). I can't say with certainty because I know she was supposed to attend but not in what capacity. And I think I mentioned this before to you but it's not that they were lacking in local personalities that they had to resort to a company who employs Gail Gygax's harasser and a neo nazi supporter.
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Comstar posted:Has anyone written Arthur Wellesley's exciting adventures in the Penisuala as a RPG or fantasy novel? Swap the black powder for bows and swords and catapults and add some magic and evil clerics to stand in for the French. Pretty close to Brian McClellan's Powder Mage series, complete with evil French! And mages who draw power from snorting/igniting gunpowder.
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https://twitter.com/GoodmanGames/status/1227633412015476741?s=19 From what I understand they have already put a lot of time and money into a Tegel Manor reboot.
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I swear to god, finding out that an industry person is a Nazi is this thread's version of Magechat. Every time I suddenly see fifty new posts it's never a good sign.
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Froghammer posted:I swear to god, finding out that an industry person is a Nazi is this thread's version of Magechat. Every time I suddenly see fifty new posts it's never a good sign. Nah, it's honestly a great sign. More of it needs to be happening and faster. It may suck sort of but kill your idols.
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neongrey posted:I mean it's good they're getting outed but I'd rather they not be there in the first place.
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neongrey posted:I mean it's good they're getting outed but I'd rather they not be there in the first place.
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MadScientistWorking posted:I think the scarier part as pointed out earlier is no one loving knows about the more overt ones. Like Alexander Macris is the most overt neo Nazi in the entire industry and yet I've seen people get completely flummoxed by his existence and relationship with people.
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Even for those who might be interested in keeping up on the topic, tabletop gaming is an incredibly fragmented hobby with no real journalism to speak of to systematically provide coverage of what's going on. Most gamers aren't frequenting forums like this one, or following gaming parts of twitter or Google+ when that was around or whatever. Like, I know Alexander Macris is a piece of poo poo. But I learned that first from tech journalism sites that reported on gamergate. If he hadn't been involved in that bullshit specifically, I probably wouldn't have been aware of any of his fuckery until it was brought up in a thread like this. Hell, I wouldn't have even known about him for gamegate if a more general tech site hadn't covered it, as aside for looking for announcements on what's coming out, I don't really follow gaming news to any great degree.
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Desiden posted:Even for those who might be interested in keeping up on the topic, tabletop gaming is an incredibly fragmented hobby with no real journalism to speak of to systematically provide coverage of what's going on. Most gamers aren't frequenting forums like this one, or following gaming parts of twitter or Google+ when that was around or whatever. The weird thing to me is Macris doesn't even have a wikipedia page. Their page for The Escapist barely even mentions him.
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JohnnyCanuck posted:Isn't the latest version of the story that he barely had anything to do with the Escapist, honest? The current attitude of the people with the rights to The Escapist (or at least the Youtube part) is, so far as I can tell "Thank gently caress that rear end in a top hat ran The Escapist into the ground so we were able to buy the rights to all the content we created before he fired us and replaced us with Gators at a bargain price. And we hope he absolutely hates what we're doing with the brand." Or possibly that's just Bob Chipman's attitude.
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