Quote from: Rhymer88 on June 01, 2024, 03:26:01 AMMaybe Mearls will create some kind of BRP lite, similar to Dragonbane.

Mearls is a fan of Dragonbane (I chatted with him in the Dragonbane Facebook group about him maybe doing some DB stuff), so that certainly seems possible.

Quote from: Ruprecht on June 01, 2024, 07:35:54 PM

Quote from: Nakana on June 01, 2024, 12:40:27 PMWhat's your reason for hating Chaosium?

My own problem with Chaosium is they gave license to Mongoose to publish RuneQuest. Mongoose used the OGL and a bunch of companies used that to create their own games. Then Chaosium ended the license and said the OGL was invalid except for one publisher they liked. They had years to tell Mongoose their license did not allow them to publish to the OGL but they didn't. I might have a few details wrong but the whole thing left a bad taste in my mouth.

Chaosium also likes to pull a page from SJG and play internet bully. Seen Chaosium staff get on forums and threaten legal action for speaking out against their actions.

Apologies for the thread necro but it seemed like the lesser of two evils compared with starting a full thread for a simple question.   Mike Mearls interviews have been making the rounds as of late on the interwebs and I can't remember what comments he made in the past if any that were controversial to just plain stupid.   I've done a web search and found that he didn't cancel a playtester named Zach hard/fast enough for the woke mob's liking but I wasn't even aware of that at the time so that's not it.  He's not the "white men like me can't leave the hobby fast enough" dipshit because that was Kyle Brink more recently.  Did he make any stupid woke virtue signal statements to try and save his own skin in the aftermath of whatever the Zach incident was?  Or am I misremembering things entirely?

Quote from: RNGm on February 17, 2025, 01:43:07 PMApologies for the thread necro but it seemed like the lesser of two evils compared with starting a full thread for a simple question.   Mike Mearls interviews have been making the rounds as of late on the interwebs and I can't remember what comments he made in the past if any that were controversial to just plain stupid.   I've done a web search and found that he didn't cancel a playtester named Zach hard/fast enough for the woke mob's liking but I wasn't even aware of that at the time so that's not it.  He's not the "white men like me can't leave the hobby fast enough" dipshit because that was Kyle Brink more recently.  Did he make any stupid woke virtue signal statements to try and save his own skin in the aftermath of whatever the Zach incident was?  Or am I misremembering things entirely?

I have no idea about the timing with regard to Zak, but the thing that turned me off Mearls was a Twitter rant he went on some years ago against chainmail bikinis and those who don't have a problem with them. He basically said that guys who like such characters and admire the female form are the real problem with the hobby and should GTFO.

For those curious what this video is about, Pundit gets to the headline 16 minutes into his 23 minute video. So just fast forward 16 minutes.

Quote from: RNGm on February 17, 2025, 01:43:07 PMApologies for the thread necro but it seemed like the lesser of two evils compared with starting a full thread for a simple question.   Mike Mearls interviews have been making the rounds as of late on the interwebs and I can't remember what comments he made in the past if any that were controversial to just plain stupid.   I've done a web search and found that he didn't cancel a playtester named Zach hard/fast enough for the woke mob's liking but I wasn't even aware of that at the time so that's not it.  He's not the "white men like me can't leave the hobby fast enough" dipshit because that was Kyle Brink more recently.  Did he make any stupid woke virtue signal statements to try and save his own skin in the aftermath of whatever the Zach incident was?  Or am I misremembering things entirely?

You're not misremembering. The following tweet from Mearls caused a lot of controversy at the time (Jan 21, 2018):

"Funny how many of the same "fans" who insist on gatekeeping via rules complexity and lore density also have a problem with women in tabletop gaming.

Hey guys! You're all fired from D&D. Find another game."
https://x.com/mikemearls/status/955153201434525696

Mearls disappeared from social media for a while soon after this, causing some people to speculate that his bosses at WotC weren't too happy with him.

Quote from: Horace on February 17, 2025, 04:58:49 PM

Quote from: RNGm on February 17, 2025, 01:43:07 PMApologies for the thread necro but it seemed like the lesser of two evils compared with starting a full thread for a simple question.   Mike Mearls interviews have been making the rounds as of late on the interwebs and I can't remember what comments he made in the past if any that were controversial to just plain stupid.   I've done a web search and found that he didn't cancel a playtester named Zach hard/fast enough for the woke mob's liking but I wasn't even aware of that at the time so that's not it.  He's not the "white men like me can't leave the hobby fast enough" dipshit because that was Kyle Brink more recently.  Did he make any stupid woke virtue signal statements to try and save his own skin in the aftermath of whatever the Zach incident was?  Or am I misremembering things entirely?

You're not misremembering. The following tweet from Mearls caused a lot of controversy at the time (Jan 21, 2018):

"Funny how many of the same "fans" who insist on gatekeeping via rules complexity and lore density also have a problem with women in tabletop gaming.

Hey guys! You're all fired from D&D. Find another game."
https://x.com/mikemearls/status/955153201434525696

Mearls disappeared from social media for a while soon after this, causing some people to speculate that his bosses at WotC weren't too happy with him.

I'm pretty sure his bosses at WotC were the ones demanding that he make statements against ordinary gamers.

Quote from: Horace on February 17, 2025, 04:58:49 PM

Quote from: RNGm on February 17, 2025, 01:43:07 PMApologies for the thread necro but it seemed like the lesser of two evils compared with starting a full thread for a simple question.   Mike Mearls interviews have been making the rounds as of late on the interwebs and I can't remember what comments he made in the past if any that were controversial to just plain stupid.   I've done a web search and found that he didn't cancel a playtester named Zach hard/fast enough for the woke mob's liking but I wasn't even aware of that at the time so that's not it.  He's not the "white men like me can't leave the hobby fast enough" dipshit because that was Kyle Brink more recently.  Did he make any stupid woke virtue signal statements to try and save his own skin in the aftermath of whatever the Zach incident was?  Or am I misremembering things entirely?

You're not misremembering. The following tweet from Mearls caused a lot of controversy at the time (Jan 21, 2018):

"Funny how many of the same "fans" who insist on gatekeeping via rules complexity and lore density also have a problem with women in tabletop gaming.

Hey guys! You're all fired from D&D. Find another game."
https://x.com/mikemearls/status/955153201434525696

Mearls disappeared from social media for a while soon after this, causing some people to speculate that his bosses at WotC weren't too happy with him.

While that's cringey for sure, I wasn't even interested in D&D 5e at all until the pandemic started so I'd guess that any comments if they exist were made after March of 2020 when the lockdowns started (since that's when I first looked into D&D 5e after a dozen years of not giving two shits about WOTC after the release of 4e).  Did he say anything stupid about the fiery but mostly peaceful burning, looting, and murder going on in the summer of love 2020?   Was he particularly afflicted by TDS even compared with his compatriots in the industry given he had something to prove after being (partially?) cancelled?   Again, I fully admit that I may be misattributing some vague issue to him but his name stands out.

Quote from: Mistwell on February 17, 2025, 04:39:21 PMFor those curious what this video is about, Pundit gets to the headline 16 minutes into his 23 minute video. So just fast forward 16 minutes.

I wish Pundit would put markers on all of his videos so I could skip past the product promotion and get to the actual content, but I think that's the complete inverse of what he's going after.

I've heard before that Youtube essentially punishes you for having a video that isn't viewed for at least 10 minutes, thus the reason professional creators always have videos longer than that.  So it's detrimental for Pundit's bottom line if someone could jump right to the relevant sentence and immediately close the window.  Pretty positive that's why he never writes a summary nor timestamps the video.

Yeah people still mad at Mearls because they hate Pundit or Zak or both. And because they lied about a conspiracy between Zak and Mearls and, I dunno, mushroom overlords to harass everyone who doesn't like ascending AC or whatever. Amazing how long this shit keeps coming up, I think people who came up with it actually said "yeah we invented it" some time ago?
Don't know if he said anything about chainmail bikinis. No idea how can anyone not like them, frankly.

Quote from: RPGPundit on February 17, 2025, 06:00:03 PM

Quote from: Horace on February 17, 2025, 04:58:49 PM

Quote from: RNGm on February 17, 2025, 01:43:07 PMApologies for the thread necro but it seemed like the lesser of two evils compared with starting a full thread for a simple question.   Mike Mearls interviews have been making the rounds as of late on the interwebs and I can't remember what comments he made in the past if any that were controversial to just plain stupid.   I've done a web search and found that he didn't cancel a playtester named Zach hard/fast enough for the woke mob's liking but I wasn't even aware of that at the time so that's not it.  He's not the "white men like me can't leave the hobby fast enough" dipshit because that was Kyle Brink more recently.  Did he make any stupid woke virtue signal statements to try and save his own skin in the aftermath of whatever the Zach incident was?  Or am I misremembering things entirely?

You're not misremembering. The following tweet from Mearls caused a lot of controversy at the time (Jan 21, 2018):

"Funny how many of the same "fans" who insist on gatekeeping via rules complexity and lore density also have a problem with women in tabletop gaming.

Hey guys! You're all fired from D&D. Find another game."
https://x.com/mikemearls/status/955153201434525696

Mearls disappeared from social media for a while soon after this, causing some people to speculate that his bosses at WotC weren't too happy with him.

I'm pretty sure his bosses at WotC were the ones demanding that he make statements against ordinary gamers.

Almost certain. I worked with Mearls for 8 years. He's a great guy, and the only reason that 5E was as good as it was.

I'm looking forward to Odyssey. I have no intention of running a fantasy RPG again until it releases.

Mearls' chai mail bikini thing always seemed kind of out of character for him to post. He might actually believe it, but he'd never previously been particularly effusive about this kind of stuff.

I interpret it as someone pressuring him to say that to appease the progressives in WotC since, if I remember correctly, it happened not long after the Zack S stuff.

Quote from: GeekyBugle on May 31, 2024, 01:28:24 PMIMHO Mearls is an idiot, he should have made something and self-publish, Also fucking Chaosium? I'm not buying ANYTHING from them ever.

Well he was a woke wanna-be idiot during 5e and likely has not gotten any better. So Chaosium deserves this joker. He'll fit right in.

How many Mearlses are there?  Xaxus says they are.  Are they brothers?