Quote from: Gagarth;1057588Oh, look the peanut gallery has chimed in.

Dude, I'm not really fond of Leftists and their wankery either, BUT YOU ARE NOT HELPING.
Tone it the fuck down, use your brain, and post political only crap in the Pundit's forum. What you doing now is just embarrassing yourself.

Quote from: Mike the Mage;1057384It's their loss. By their, I mean those who filter their reviews for anything other than the material itself. They are indulging in censorship and their "community" will either accept that ot look elsewhere. IOW The Big Purple will eat itself.

L&D and ACKS are two of the best OSR products on the market in terms of value for money.

Let me ask you, Pundit: Were you to find out that Mike Mearls and you disagreed on politics, would you stop playing DCC?

I am pretty sure you wouldn't.

Did you mean to write D&D? Because if I disagreed on politics with Mearls, I definitely wouldn't stop playing DCC!

Quote from: Gagarth;1057196Where is it stated that you have to make non-political posts and who made you the gatekeeper of this forum.

You can't post anything political outside of the RPG hobby on this main forum.

Quote from: Cave Bear;1057584In fairness, transgender is natural for clown fish and other sequentially hermaphroditic species, but then again it isn't exactly natural for a human being to transform into a clown fish (let alone a tree, or a dinosaur).
D&D druids aren't about nature though. D&D druids are about NATURE!!1

MOST species on the planet are sexually dimorphic, and to deny that is to deny NATURE!  Druids as a class respect NATURE.  Says so.  In fact, in older editions it prevents players from using most metal objects as part of the class, because forged metal is considered unnatural.

And that's ignoring the fact that this speshul snoflak of a character believes that 'they' are so important that 'they' can mimic a God in not having a gender.  A God that apparently kicked all the Elves out of the happy place for being Elves.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1057723Because if I disagreed on politics with Mearls, I definitely wouldn't stop playing DCC!

That is what I meant and that is what I thought. :cool:


So why would anybody stop playing ACKS because of something unrelated to the game? It's not as if the game contains anything political anyway. The tropes it uses are the same as Dungeon World, so even a political science major can't start pointing to them saying "patriarchy" like Donal Sutherland's doppleganger.

Quote from: Mike the Mage;1057732That is what I meant and that is what I thought. :cool:


So why would anybody stop playing ACKS because of something unrelated to the game? It's not as if the game contains anything political anyway. The tropes it uses are the same as Dungeon World, so even a political science major can't start pointing to them saying "patriarchy" like Donal Sutherland's doppleganger.

I think you're confused.

Dungeon Crawl Classics was written and produced by Goodwin Games with no input from Mike Mearls at all. All Mike Mearls has done is contribute some content to the re-release of some classic D&D modules that Goodwin Games has licensed the use of. You could easily play DCC while contributing NOTHING to Mearls or WotC simply by avoiding those modules.

My bad. Indeed I confused the DDC rules with its contributed modules authors.

My question should have been, should the political opinions of Joeseph Goodman differ from your own would you stop playing DCC?

My answer is "no"

Quote from: Mike the Mage;1057739My answer is "no"

My answer is it depends on the political opinion. Some political issues are less existential than others.

There's a big difference between "what is the most effective means of maintaining a social safety net for those who can't take care of themselves" and "all whites (or blacks or Christians) need to die."

I would say that your example "all whites (or blacks or Christians) need to die." is extreme but I guess were somebody a genocidal maniac, they wouldn't be getting my money.

The problem is SJWs and some other groups is the way that a difference in political opinion is siezed upon as evidence of being .....well..... a genocidal maniac.

The idea that MRA are Nazis or equatable to Nazis is absurd but my own political opinion (socialist libertarian)was enough for somebody here to imagine that I smash up coffee shops.

I mean, that's the kinda crap that had Charlie Chaplin chased out of the country. It's also the crap that is spouted by SJWs that all Trump supporters are racists or the crap in the UK that all Brexiters are racists.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1057725You can't post anything political outside of the RPG hobby on this main forum.

That was a response to TJS repeating gatekeeping attempts he had made in your forum implying that no one could post in your forum unless they posted in this forum first.

Quote from: Mike the Mage;1057753The idea that MRA are Nazis or equatable to Nazis is absurd but my own political opinion (socialist libertarian)was enough for somebody here to imagine that I smash up coffee shops.

No it was your blustering about  The Price of Freedom.

Quote from: Gagarth;1057879That was a response to TJS repeating gatekeeping attempts he had made in your forum implying that no one could post in your forum unless they posted in this forum first.

Bullshit.

Freedom to behave like an ass means others also have the freedom to point it out.

Quote from: Mike the Mage;1057739My bad. Indeed I confused the DDC rules with its contributed modules authors.

My question should have been, should the political opinions of Joeseph Goodman differ from your own would you stop playing DCC?

My answer is "no"

My answer is that if the designer/publisher had different political views than my own (for example, Venger Satanis has some different political views from my own, or James Raggi has different political views from my own) that in and of itself is not enough for me not to purchase their games.

If a designer/publisher has different political views from my own and their games are absolutely infused with those politics, and their public position is one of open hostility toward me or people like me for any number of reasons, then I probably wouldn't buy their games because their games would be shit and it would be giving money to people who despise me and people like me.