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moths posted:Is there anything prohibiting you from a disclaimer that THE FOLLOWING IS A LEGALLY OBLIGATED STATEMENT AT THE BEHEST OF PANTS-SHITTER BAD HAIRCUTMAN and then leaving it to the readers to judge? I'd argue that that guy, Cam's(?), statement had this. There was a little thing at the end something like, 'I am admitting this because Zack sued me' - which I honestly read as, 'hey, gently caress this guy, I would still be warning people about him if I could.' ...but that could just be me.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Part of this (mis)perception is that law/cop dramas try to make it look like a settlement is "you got me dead to rights, so let's settle so I can avoid a messy trial and/or a harsher sentence" While I agree that law and cop dramas are terrible and give people badly skewed views of how courts and laws work: a plea bargain in a criminal prosecution where the defendant agrees to plea guilty to lesser charges is, actually, a formal statement of guilt put down on your permanent record along with a court-imposed penalty; whereas a settlement in a civil lawsuit is neither of those things, it's a binding agreement to end this civil suit which the judge looks over and stamps so that one party can't renege on the deal agreed to later. And with that in mind, that's why you can't nudge-nudge-wink-wink too much with a statement required by the settlement: if you violate the agreement, the counterparty can take you back to court over it.
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Leperflesh posted:While I agree that law and cop dramas are terrible and give people badly skewed views of how courts and laws work: a plea bargain in a criminal prosecution where the defendant agrees to plea guilty to lesser charges is, actually, a formal statement of guilt put down on your permanent record along with a court-imposed penalty; whereas a settlement in a civil lawsuit is neither of those things, it's a binding agreement to end this civil suit which the judge looks over and stamps so that one party can't renege on the deal agreed to later. And you know someone like rapist and abuser Zak S is going to be watching like a hawk for anything his lawyer can argue is noncompliance.
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Tsilkani posted:And you know someone like rapist and abuser Zak S is going to be watching like a hawk for anything his lawyer can argue is noncompliance. I mean what else is he going to do - banned from game conventions - banned from rpg stores - reputation is even more in the toilet despite racking up "wins" - banned from the OSR and RPG subreddits for having annoying fans and anti-fans
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Leperflesh posted:While I agree that law and cop dramas are terrible and give people badly skewed views of how courts and laws work: a plea bargain in a criminal prosecution where the defendant agrees to plea guilty to lesser charges is, actually, a formal statement of guilt put down on your permanent record along with a court-imposed penalty; whereas a settlement in a civil lawsuit is neither of those things, it's a binding agreement to end this civil suit which the judge looks over and stamps so that one party can't renege on the deal agreed to later.
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Nessus posted:I imagine that you can make it clear in your statement that it is part of a legal settlement, and if asked about it, you can say "As part of a legal settlement, I cannot comment on this matter" or similar, right? Yes.
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since it came up earlier in the thread: https://twitter.com/boymonster/status/1648894749313748994
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admanb posted:genuinely the funniest poo poo in the world is that even if no allegations had ever come out he still would've been nearly incapable of advertising his products because he's too annoying for the entire internet I can't believe there are people actually trying to hitch their wagon to him still, like even from the most cold calculus mercenary perspective imaginable you have to have better options than him.
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Kai Tave posted:I can't believe there are people actually trying to hitch their wagon to him still, like even from the most cold calculus mercenary perspective imaginable you have to have better options than him. The universe of complete nutcases is much smaller than they'd like you to believe, they've just received a megaphone from social media over the last 20 years or so.
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Kai Tave posted:I can't believe there are people actually trying to hitch their wagon to him still, like even from the most cold calculus mercenary perspective imaginable you have to have better options than him. But he knows pornstars. Even plays D&D with them! Under the pain of perjury.
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TG as an industry: as part of a legal settlement we cannot post in this thread
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“Would your character be willing to sign a sworn affidavit confirming his intention to make an attack of opportunity on the goblin?”
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Name Change posted:The universe of complete nutcases is much smaller than they'd like you to believe, they've just received a megaphone from social media over the last 20 years or so. They also tend to knife each other at every perceived opportunity.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:They also tend to knife each other at every perceived opportunity. There’s a little solace to be had in that these assholes’ existences are likely miserable, angry, and fear-ridden. All they know is being made miserable and making others miserable.
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gradenko_2000 posted:since it came up earlier in the thread: Thanks for passing this along.
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Kai Tave posted:I can't believe there are people actually trying to hitch their wagon to him still, like even from the most cold calculus mercenary perspective imaginable you have to have better options than him. (Plus, this is a guy with a history of sockpuppeting through his friends' accounts, and the stuff she says about him is exactly what he'd say about himself.)
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Prooobably means they are moving away from D&D whenever those systems are ready.
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Hard to understate how much of an own-goal driving Crit Roll off of your system is. Like there’s an enormous amount of folks that will leave with them just because they wanna play what Mercer and their favorite characters/people are playing.
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I don’t think I know anything by Layla Adelman but it rules to see Stras getting more work.
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Dexo posted:Turns out Crit Role are making their own TTRPG's Wonder if this was in the works before the OGL kerfuffle or not. My guess is it was probably somewhere on the backburner, but it was unexpectedly made much more urgent.
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Halloween Jack posted:Even though they've been nothing but horrible, I find myself feeling a little bit of sympathy for the trans people he's recruited. Like, Cusack has been very open about the fact that she connected with Zak when she was coming out and in a really bad place. She calls him her mentor, a "saint," the most brave and courageous person she's ever known. There's nothing funny about how awful it's going to be when she eventually falls short of his impossible standards and winds up on the list of Salieris with the rest of us. Zak's a manipulative narcissist who plenty of people have described as putting up a very charming, caring front when it suits him. He's also gone on long rants about how people he classifies as enemies are people he vows to use total war tactics against to destroy completely. They're two sides of the same coin: that to him there's one real person in the world: himself, and everyone else is a pawn to play with or an obstacle to smash. It's also why it's impossible to say which of his defenders are people he's wooed into defending him (or cajoled because he does that too), people he's posting through by grabbing their social media accounts or giving them verbatim stuff to say, or actual sockpuppets, and why the distinction between them doesn't functionally matter much. The lawsuits are because he wants to hurt people, and because he's hoping to silence enough voices that he can slowly slide his way into relevance again with people who have never heard of him. Like how Satine Phoenix and Jamison Stone retreated to the relative safety of their instagrams and are hoping to slowly rebuild their base from there. And I don't know... it's certainly a gambit that works a lot of the time in other industries. TTRPGs are so online and gossipy and small that it might be harder? But more obviously scummy people like Ken Whitman and that BESM guy have dipped in and out of the space without much issue so...
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admanb posted:I don’t think I know anything by Layla Adelman but it rules to see Stras getting more work. Agreed, Stras is legitimately very good and deserves a broader audience. "Packed in a way that it can be used with any type of setting" doesn't exactly set my heart on fire, but I'll be curious to see his take on it. All I can find about Adelman is that they're on the Ennies judges panel and they have good taste in games, having nominated the transcendently perfect Sleepaway in 2019. Zero public presence aside from that, as far as I can tell.
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moths posted:That's potentially a win for everybody in the industry besides D&D, if the received message is that you can play other games and enjoy them. It's also maybe a heartbreaker -- you can play D&D or what the Critical Roll cast publishes.
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I’m really confused on why 2 different ones? Is it critical role and critical role advanced?’ So when is hasbro going to hire some voice actors and make their own critical role without the blackjack and hookers.
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Critical Role already plays other games from time to time Comstar posted:I’m really confused on why 2 different ones? Is it critical role and critical role advanced?’ One is a shorter game, not meant for long arcs and campaigns, and fits any genre. The other is the real big news.
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3 Action Economist posted:Critical Role already plays other games from time to time It's going to be 5e with the branding filed off
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Bottom Liner posted:It's going to be 5e with the branding filed off What if it was cooler instead
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Ominous Jazz posted:What if it was cooler instead Imagine, instead of rolling for perception all the time, you had kind of a threshold where you always noticed certain things, and the more perceptive your character was, the more of those things they were. Kind of a passive ability to notice. how much cooler would that be
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It's nothing but charts for when you have to ask your players "how do you want to do this?"
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Dawgstar posted:It's nothing but charts for when you have to ask your players "how do you want to do this?" The Wandering
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It's not exactly directly tradgames related but in case anyone hasn't heard, Imgur is purging old images unaffiliated with registered accounts (and also porn), which means that a bunch of posts throughout the forums may be pushing up dead image links soon. https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1648883351233896448
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Nuns with Guns posted:The lawsuits are because he wants to hurt people, and because he's hoping to silence enough voices that he can slowly slide his way into relevance again with people who have never heard of him. Like how Satine Phoenix and Jamison Stone retreated to the relative safety of their instagrams and are hoping to slowly rebuild their base from there. And I don't know... it's certainly a gambit that works a lot of the time in other industries. TTRPGs are so online and gossipy and small that it might be harder? But more obviously scummy people like Ken Whitman and that BESM guy have dipped in and out of the space without much issue so... the thing the Satine Phoenixes and Ken Whitmans of the community successfully do is stay quiet and stay out of sight long enough for most of the heat to die down, and Zak is physiologically incapable of that
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Bottom Liner posted:It's going to be 5e with the branding filed off Better! They've got the exclusive licence to make E Gary Gygax's Dangerous Journey's 2!
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Deptfordx posted:Better! They've got the exclusive licence to make E Gary Gygax's Dangerous Journey's 2! d6 dicepools clearly means they finally made a Shadowrun 6th Ed
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Comrade Koba posted:Eh, I feel there are enough receipts and accounts of heinous poo poo easily available for whenever Muscle Smurf and Porcelain Narcissist try to do their comeback tour. This could be why the pivot to the Improve Your Health grift.
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