Quote from: thedungeondelver;1059663You know I wonder how long until Big Throbbing Purple decides that all pre-2e D&D and variants Are Bad, Against Niceness, Morally and Ethically Repugnant And Literally Murder Marginalized People At A Rate Of Fifty Gorillion Every Day and ban all non-negative/critical discussion of OD&D, AD&D, and Basic D&D.

These are only the first few comments from a thread that's now at 625 posts.

Quote from: Melan;1059752



These are only the first few comments from a thread that's now at 625 posts.

#10 sounds like he'd be a lot happier playing a Midnight game - as a Legate of Izrador.

(In Midnight Izrador is Morgoth in a world without Illuvatar. You're supposed to play the rapidly-being-exterminated humans, elves and dwarves - it's classic Misery Tourism - but it sounds like he'd rather be an Orc, with his boot stamping on a Human face forever).

Never try to appeal to a hate group. They will either find something new to hate or ignore you.

Greetings!

I read Sand Orcs and Jungle Orcs. Hmmm...lets see...Sand Orcs. That has to be Orcs that live in sandy deserts, harsh, desert like environments. Ok, next are the Jungle Orcs. That tells me they originate in Jungles. They are accustomed to surviving in a jungle environment. Ok, cool. Neat, efficient naming of a regional race or culture, as opposed to say, the Mountain Orcs, or the Orcs of Tharghah, which tend to live in fortified towns.

Wait...Huh? Sand Orcs and Jungle Orcs are...racist? You see, these SJW morons are really so fucked in the head, they have drank so deep from the Marxist Koolaid, that they no longer have the comprehension skills of a 10 year old. Sand Orcs mean exactly that, Sand Orcs. Same thing with fucking Jungle Orcs. But NO! SJW morons have to twist some kind of fucked up philosophy into how they read or hear the English language. These morons have decided that there's something sinister going on here...yes, something deeper. The more enlightened will clearly recognize the deeper allusions to RACISM!!!! LOL.

My god, none of these people can ever just fucking comprehend something in a basic, Occam's Razor way. There's always some kind of racist signaling going on, some deeper philosophy of mysogyny, or secretly homophobic attitudes, or....geesus, you know? They do this insane shit with EVERYTHING.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Quote from: Melan;1059752These are only the first few comments from a thread that's now at 625 posts.

It's easy to poke fun, but please confirm which of these "accused" elements you are defending. For example, do you think the Vistani were a slur against the Roma, if yes, do you consider those slurs to be acceptable in 2018?

Or if you prefer parallel media, do you consider this scene - a product of its time, in a hugely successful and influential movie - to be problematic in 2018? If yes, what criticism is acceptable in 2018, if anything?

Quote from: Brand55;1059698You're late to the party. I haven't been following it, but they've been talking about how horrible D&D is for weeks now. It started with a thread on how it was time to remove drow and eventually someone started a new thread where people could complain about all sorts of stuff they found inappropriate in older editions.

Saw that thread. How do these loons even function in normal society or reality at all for that matter?

Quote from: Omega;1059823Saw that thread. How do these loons even function in normal society or reality at all for that matter?

Your guess is as good as mine. That's one benefit of living in the rural southern US. I'm quite happy in my bubble far away from the majority of liberal nutjobs. I have to worry more about running into right-wing extremists and religious zealots on a day-to-day basis. They bring their own issues, but I generally find they're easier to deal with.

Nyooo, the diarrhea pool is sloshing its storm surge into here! :eek: We need levees!

Quote from: Motorskills;1059821It's easy to poke fun, but please confirm which of these "accused" elements you are defending. For example, do you think the Vistani were a slur against the Roma, if yes, do you consider those slurs to be acceptable in 2018?

Or if you prefer parallel media, do you consider this scene - a product of its time, in a hugely successful and influential movie - to be problematic in 2018? If yes, what criticism is acceptable in 2018, if anything?

Melan, please don't answer this shit.

Quote from: Motorskills;1059821It's easy to poke fun, but please confirm which of these "accused" elements you are defending. For example, do you think the Vistani were a slur against the Roma, if yes, do you consider those slurs to be acceptable in 2018?

All of them. The accusations are baseless, hysterical, and the products of political lunacy.

Quote from: Melan;1059853All of them. The accusations are baseless, hysterical, and the products of political lunacy.

Greetings!

Hello Melan! Outstanding! You said what I was thinking!

Yeah, ALL OF THEM, brother. Damn straight!

For the reasons you succinctly put forth!

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Quote from: S'mon;1059850Melan, please don't answer this shit.

As a Londoner you know full well that the relationship between the Traveller community and the general British public isn't pretty on either side, not helped by the fair bit of racism getting stirred into mix.

To be fair Gully Dwarves deserve to be called out imo. Such a strange and god awful thing to put in any campaign world followed by Kender. I don't think they realize it or even care how insulting it is to compare Gully Dwarves to those who are intellectually handicapped. While I have not met many individuals who are I have seen a few and none of them at least the ones I associated with act in any way shape or form as a Gully Dwarf. Shocking they assume those who are intellectually handicapped to be like the stereotype that they are unfortunately too often portrayed.

I wonder how those in that D&D thread function in normal society without the safe space, echo chamber of the the Rpg.net forums.

It's super evil wicked and bad to mash a bunch of cultures on a single continent into a cartoonish, historically meaningless trope, which a lone warrior wearing "studded leather", fighting with a halberd, and carrying a longbow on his back totally isn't at all.

Quote from: fearsomepirate;1059894It's super evil wicked and bad to mash a bunch of cultures on a single continent into a cartoonish, historically meaningless trope, which a lone warrior wearing "studded leather", fighting with a halberd, and carrying a longbow on his back totally isn't at all.

Elf games

The only history they have to follow is the one of the game world.