Coolness Averted posted:Sorry "when how bad the culture was" like all the stories of how poorly minority contractors were treated and stuff came up about how lovely and not actually progressive WotC, especially the D&D side was coming to light around 2018 and 2019 iirc. Not some "We at WotC have decided D&D is a bad game, and our culture reflects it." lol okay I was really confused, the game you make being poo poo isn't a firing offence anywhere, especially if it makes money while being terrible.
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Big Hubris posted:Did Wizards commit someone or was that another company? That was the folks who make Cards Against Humanity.
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# ? Sep 28, 2021 02:50 |
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KingKalamari posted:Mystara's actually a pretty rad setting, and sort of the D&D campaign setting equivalent to the Burgess Shale: It was one of the earliest official settings created for D&D but took a much different trajectory in terms of tone and worldbuilding than its contemporaries. So it has a lot of details that are similar to, but different from the expected cliche of a D&D setting. It's also weird in the raddest loving way possible.. I've actually been tossing around the idea of doing a FATAL and friends write-up of the setting as a whole for a while now. That would be an extremely cool F&F, the setting has always seemed very interesting (accounting for the more poorly aged parts as you note) Edit: shimmy shimmy posted:some part of wizards has to take a stand against white supremacy, and it's not going to be DnD PoontifexMacksimus fucked around with this message at 13:50 on Sep 28, 2021 |
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KingKalamari posted:Fun fact: I've come to suspect that Raven C.S. McCracken's infamous World of Synnibarr evolved out of a Basic D&D campaign set in Mystara. It explains where the idea of adventurers ascending to godhood once they reach a high enough level, the fact Synnibarr is hollow and has civilizations on its interior, the weird relationship Synnibarr has with race/class distinction and a bunch of other weird setting details are things that were also present (And better explained) in BECMI/Mystara.
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# ? Sep 28, 2021 14:16 |
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Halloween Jack posted:That never occurred to me before! I suppose the world-ship idea must have come from Metamorphosis Alpha. I thought everyone knew by now that Raven C.S. McCracken was a fictional character created by forums posters theironjef and Gargamelsmurf for their podcast.
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# ? Sep 28, 2021 21:43 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:I wouldn't rule out Dragonlance. Didn't WOTC have that whole writing deal with the authors that they got into a legal fight over? It's referred to as one of the key settings in the core book, and they don't have to include Weis or Hickman. It might be controversial, but it's not like Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide has Greenwood in the credits.
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# ? Sep 29, 2021 17:15 |
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Weren't the ownership rights on Dragonlance a little bit more complicated? I know that Wizards basically has ownership of the rights to the Forgotten Realms setting provided they abide by the terms set in the initial acquisition agreement they made with Greenwood (Which, funnily enough, is probably the reason FR has become the default setting for 5e since that contract specifies Wizards has to publish a minimum number of Forgotten Realms supplements per year to retain said ownership), but I think Weiss and Hickman retained a greater degree of ownership of the Dragonlance setting through Sovereign Press and would need to be involved in official uses of the setting?
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# ? Sep 29, 2021 17:21 |
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Bony-Eared Assfish posted:I thought everyone knew by now that Raven C.S. McCracken was a fictional character created by forums posters theironjef and Gargamelsmurf for their podcast. Please my mind isn't large enough for that many gladii and mustaches. Also his post RPG career where he's been trying to become like a reality show host or something was outside the scope of our predictions.
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# ? Sep 29, 2021 18:14 |
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I remember that when InQuest included Synnibarr in a Worst Games of All Time list, he send them a rambling letter where he bragged about his TV hosting career and his deadly martial arts skills. So that actually isn't a surprise to me.
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# ? Sep 29, 2021 18:16 |
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theironjef posted:Please my mind isn't large enough for that many gladii and mustaches. Also his post RPG career where he's been trying to become like a reality show host or something was outside the scope of our predictions.
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# ? Sep 29, 2021 18:24 |
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Juyo, right? He seems like a Form VII type of guy.
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# ? Sep 29, 2021 18:28 |
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I like Soresu / Form III
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# ? Sep 29, 2021 18:30 |
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KingKalamari posted:Weren't the ownership rights on Dragonlance a little bit more complicated? There was a big lawsuit between Wotc and Hickman/Weis over Dragonlance novels being cancelled, that wrapped up earlier this year. https://boundingintocomics.com/2020...hout-prejudice/ quote:Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman’s Dragonlance Lawsuit Against Wizards Of The Coast Dismissed Without Prejudice I'd be shocked if this wasn't the result of some contractual stuff to get Dragonlance back into print in a 5e form, especially given that the trilogy the lawsuit was over is back on. https://twitter.com/trhickman/status/1341265375053246464 https://twitter.com/trhickman/status/1353735475194814466 https://twitter.com/trhickman/status/1354826799868383236 https://twitter.com/trhickman/status/1435731598150823937 Toph Bei Fong fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Sep 29, 2021 |
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KingKalamari posted:Weren't the ownership rights on Dragonlance a little bit more complicated? I know that Wizards basically has ownership of the rights to the Forgotten Realms setting provided they abide by the terms set in the initial acquisition agreement they made with Greenwood (Which, funnily enough, is probably the reason FR has become the default setting for 5e since that contract specifies Wizards has to publish a minimum number of Forgotten Realms supplements per year to retain said ownership), but I think Weiss and Hickman retained a greater degree of ownership of the Dragonlance setting through Sovereign Press and would need to be involved in official uses of the setting? They made the setting as part of a large team under contract for TSR. If anything, the ownership should be even less complicated. They licensed the setting for 3E materials under the OGL, but WotC ended the licensing agreement around the time 4E was in the works.
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# ? Sep 29, 2021 19:17 |
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1) just for the record, are those typos from the quoted source or just usual transcription shenanigans? It changes how I view things if they come from a real document (gross incompetence) vs an internet poster (general forgettable user error). 2) I never knew Tracy Hickman looked like a Mormon Jim Broadbent. Huh.
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# ? Sep 29, 2021 19:35 |
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Young teenage me in the 80's wasn't that impressed by the Dragonlance novels. God knows what 2021 books would be like.
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# ? Sep 30, 2021 00:09 |
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Tracy Hickman should change the spelling of his name and drop the r so he can be thiccman That'd get the kids into Dragonlance. Especially if they updated the art.
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# ? Sep 30, 2021 00:28 |
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Mors Rattus posted:That was the folks who make Cards Against Humanity. ... what. I knew they made a lot of racist jokes, but committed somebody? To a mental institution?
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# ? Sep 30, 2021 01:21 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:... what. I knew they made a lot of racist jokes, but committed somebody? To a mental institution?
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# ? Sep 30, 2021 01:37 |
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Nicolas Carter posted:
The BALLS
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# ? Sep 30, 2021 02:33 |
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Even the best possible interpretation of the events is "guy relaxes a little and stops using his white voice and everyone panics, is he having a nervous breakdown, is he about to kill himself, whoah whoah whoah, better send him to an institution."
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# ? Sep 30, 2021 02:49 |
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Apparently Rowan, Rook, and Decard are publishing the DIE game? I missed that it was RRD. I'm delighted that RRD keeps finding success. Grant Howitt's going to end up living his personal nightmare, as an established RPG publisher who makes games with actual, mechanical weight.
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# ? Sep 30, 2021 15:27 |
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KingKalamari posted:I think Weiss and Hickman retained a greater degree of ownership of the Dragonlance setting through Sovereign Press and would need to be involved in official uses of the setting? They licensed it and have a strong association with it in the fandom, but WotC owns it entirely.
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# ? Sep 30, 2021 15:53 |
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CitizenKeen posted:Apparently Rowan, Rook, and Decard are publishing the DIE game? I missed that it was RRD. I'm delighted that RRD keeps finding success. Grant Howitt's going to end up living his personal nightmare, as an established RPG publisher who makes games with actual, mechanical weight. do you know how hard it was to actually find this on KS? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gshowitt/die-the-roleplaying-game
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# ? Sep 30, 2021 16:22 |
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Goa Tse-tung posted:do you know how hard it was to actually find this on KS? It has quite possibly the least-optimal name for a Kickstarter project, a truly impressive feat.
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# ? Sep 30, 2021 18:16 |
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Kestral posted:It has quite possibly the least-optimal name for a Kickstarter project, a truly impressive feat. In general Rowan, Rook, and Decard have had a trend of their bigger RPGs never being at the top of search results without being very specific. A shame, because they consistently make good stuff. But yeah Spire or 'Spire RPG' tends to get you Slay the Spire results, Heart if you add RPG is at least a top hit. I can only imagine DIE is gonna be the hardest.
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# ? Sep 30, 2021 18:24 |
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Coolness Averted posted:In general Rowan, Rook, and Decard have had a trend of their bigger RPGs never being at the top of search results without being very specific. Not much for them to do about that, that's the name of the comic and this RPG before they got involved.
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# ? Sep 30, 2021 18:26 |
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Goa Tse-tung posted:do you know how hard it was to actually find this on KS? Oh no no, you've got it all wrong, this is German for THE The Roleplaying Game.
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# ? Oct 1, 2021 01:17 |
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Der die.
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# ? Oct 1, 2021 02:57 |
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Boy I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder
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# ? Oct 1, 2021 03:16 |
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theironjef posted:Oh no no, you've got it all wrong, this is German for THE The Roleplaying Game. Finally, a roleplaying game about a popular but underrated post-punk band
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# ? Oct 1, 2021 11:06 |
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theironjef posted:Oh no no, you've got it all wrong, this is German for THE The Roleplaying Game. No one who speaks German can be an evil man
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# ? Oct 2, 2021 00:39 |
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"ironcrown.co.uk posted:To all in the ICE family Terry was a pretty cool guy, kind and approachable, pretty much always positively engaging with fans in his little niche-of-a-niche. I didn't interact with him too much myself, but the couple of times I did he was unfailingly kind and insightful. He was responsible for a lot of the bolder, weirder bits and pieces of Middle-earth Roleplaying, including the bizarre early module Court of Ardor. I hadn't been following Shadow World for some time, but it looks like he was still plugging along at the age of 62 right until the end.
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# ? Oct 3, 2021 22:36 |
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https://twitter.com/col_bosch/status/1444728544228265988
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Literally all of the major facebook pages/discords are filled to the brim with Arch Warhammer fans, I still see them seething about that Warhammer is for everyone post. One of the biggest Battletech lore youtubers did a video with Archie not too long ago and then had a big cry on his patreon to his followers about how he knew Arch was not liked but didn't know why and didn't feel the need to do due diligence. Also he reads books to the blind, so criticizing him for spending time with a guy who freely associates with The Quartering, The Golden One, called a faction in Warhammer 40k the n-word, made jokes about raping politicians, freely associated with a pedophile and had him moderating his discord is just below the belt. It's below the belt you guys!
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# ? Oct 4, 2021 02:51 |
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I’ve vaguely heard of Arch but only enough to know that he’s a terrible chud and never really bothered to learn more because well, terrible chud. Is there some kind of boiled down specifics so I’m reasonably informed on why he’s specifically awful without wading through a vast morass of monstrous poo poo?
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# ? Oct 4, 2021 03:58 |
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Xiahou Dun posted:I’ve vaguely heard of Arch but only enough to know that he’s a terrible chud and never really bothered to learn more because well, terrible chud. He doesn't say "I'm a Nazi" but he says a lot of Nazi poo poo and consorts with other like-minded folk. He likes racial slurs. He will go through contortions in his lore ramblings to erase the already pathetic level of diversity that exists in 40k (though it has improved somewhat recently). He is friends with the Golden One, who is like if Varg refrained from murdering anyone or trying to burn down churches, and channeled all that energy into Youtubing his bodybuilding, MRA poo poo, and streaming Skyrim where he "cleanses the lesser races" by specifically targeting the black and Middle Eastern-coded character types. Arch has (had?) a secondary politics-focused channel where he mused what to do about the inherently terrorist ideology of Islam, specifically "more draconian measures are required." He is very clearly big into the fascism of 40k for the sake of the fasc, however he is minimally brand-aware enough to know that's a bad look, but he's also stupid enough to paper this over by just saying 40k isn't fascy.
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Xiahou Dun posted:I’ve vaguely heard of Arch but only enough to know that he’s a terrible chud and never really bothered to learn more because well, terrible chud. https://www.reddit.com/r/Sigmarxism/comments/grhqcg/tired_of_telling_people_arch_warhammer_is_altright/ He deleted all of the videos cited, almost 50 million views worth, so I think ol' Archie boy was more than a little scared of losing his livelihood. Edit: that didnt take long lol https://mwomercs.com/news/2021/10/2555-important-announcement-on-trans-rights TheDiceMustRoll fucked around with this message at 10:09 on Oct 4, 2021 |
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# ? Oct 4, 2021 04:28 |
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The bit about having no control over decals or cosmetics you can put on your big stompy robots came from people asking why other people putting the Confederate flag on their Uberwolf or whatever was cool.
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Dawgstar posted:The bit about having no control over decals or cosmetics you can put on your big stompy robots came from people asking why other people putting the Confederate flag on their Uberwolf or whatever was
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