• Added OBS/DTRPG to red
• Added Big Geek Emperoium to green

Should Itch.io be on this list? I understand they host ttrpgs too. A look at their history of "charity bundles" indicates some politics.

Quote from: Baron on February 20, 2023, 03:13:19 PM
Should Itch.io be on this list? I understand they host ttrpgs too. A look at their history of "charity bundles" indicates some politics.

I have been posting on ITCHIO for a little over 3 months. I get the impression the management is very leftist, but I am not sure about how 'woke'. Woke is different than 'left' or 'liberal'. Woke is primarily authoritarian in nature. This is evidenced by how they tend to eat their own. Ideology and principles mean nothing to them. Its all about power and enforcing doctrine.

I have posted things that should get any woke-wanker foaming. No one has promoted my games; no slaps on the back. But I haven't been censored either. In fact the first item I posted was something I would never have posted on DTRPG because of the censorship (it was an allegorical tale about a world's population killed by an imaginary vaccine and some of the survivors trying to live and fight back).

So I like it. I don't have to agree with people if they agree to live-and-let-live.

They seem pretty mild imo, I'll look into them since dtrpg seems to make it necessary to list them though i'm not sure theres a point. Even with BGE trying to become a competitor you just can't find half the stuff that you do on dtrpg anywhere else. Given the option i'll usually buy from a publishers storefront instead of dtrpg.

I see Roll20 is red. I'm not that familiar with other VTTRPGs. Are there any that are in the green or yellow?

With Drivethru in the Red zone, can we rate Lulu? It's an alternative.

Added arcane library to green

In the entry for Chaosium there is a typo:   "growing Sandy Petersen under the bus" should be THROWING Sandy Petersen under the bus.

Quote from: Dracopol on March 21, 2023, 07:50:22 PM
In the entry for Chaosium there is a typo:   "growing Sandy Petersen under the bus" should be THROWING Sandy Petersen under the bus.

Unless Sandy is a Fungi from Yoggoth...

Sorry for nit-picking but in the Yellow column you have "Talsorian Games" but officially it is "R. Talsorian Games" (with a space after the R.), producers of Cyberpunk 2020, Cyberpunk Red, and other games.

Found a copy of the list and some of the links to statements by the companies are no longer available. If possible could you clean those up and use links to archived copies of said statements so the company can't just take it down and pretend it didn't happen?

Cheers! Benzo!

Quote from: squirewaldo on February 20, 2023, 07:29:22 PM

Quote from: Baron on February 20, 2023, 03:13:19 PM
Should Itch.io be on this list? I understand they host ttrpgs too. A look at their history of "charity bundles" indicates some politics.

I have been posting on ITCHIO for a little over 3 months. I get the impression the management is very leftist, but I am not sure about how 'woke'. Woke is different than 'left' or 'liberal'. Woke is primarily authoritarian in nature. This is evidenced by how they tend to eat their own. Ideology and principles mean nothing to them. Its all about power and enforcing doctrine.

I have posted things that should get any woke-wanker foaming. No one has promoted my games; no slaps on the back. But I haven't been censored either. In fact the first item I posted was something I would never have posted on DTRPG because of the censorship (it was an allegorical tale about a world's population killed by an imaginary vaccine and some of the survivors trying to live and fight back).

So I like it. I don't have to agree with people if they agree to live-and-let-live.

I've given up on buying anything from Itch.io these days, after seeing again and again how they prominently (large front-page ad) promote one leftist bundle after another. When you're specifically trying to change the politics of my state with what's supposed to be a gaming site, I don't want to funnel any money to your site.

Disappointed to hear that Tiny Games and the Five Torches Deep people are on the naughty list. Pleased to see Sine Nomine isn't; I've been into Crawford's games lately and they haven't been political in any way. Not surprised that Onyx Path scores poorly since I've laughed at how "Exalted" changed from 2E to 3E. ("Barbarians" are out; sex-swapping magic went from something Lunars can do and it's not a big deal, to having a long discussion about "gender dysphoria" and how extremely supportive the shapeshifting beastmen are about it.)

Added Leyline Press to red for trying to get an author blacklisted for the crime of working on a lamentations product.

Good thing the Redditors can tell us all who tolerate, being the experts in extremism that they are, otherwise I could never tell the difference on my own.

Moved Chaosium to red mainly for their donations to Mermaid "charity" that focuses on getting kids to be trans, pushes chemical and surgical solutions to kids and gives tools to hide it from parents/care takers. This is a step too far.