Greetings!

No. I have zero tolerance for Leftists and any of their BS. NOT HAPPENING. It is bad enough I have to see them and hear them spew absolute nonsense and BS in society, on various online sites, and so on. I sure as fuck do not need to tolerate Leftists at my game table. It is my game table and I am the master. Noone is "entitled" to participate in my game at my game table.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Quote from: SHARK on February 06, 2025, 03:36:01 AMGreetings!

No. I have zero tolerance for Leftists and any of their BS. NOT HAPPENING. It is bad enough I have to see them and hear them spew absolute nonsense and BS in society, on various online sites, and so on. I sure as fuck do not need to tolerate Leftists at my game table. It is my game table and I am the master. Noone is "entitled" to participate in my game at my game table.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Without trying to be sarcastic, brother, you are one eloquent poet, respect. I couldn´t have said
it better myself, you crystallized my sentiment 101%.

I'd say that the vast majority of people I've played with have been broadly socialist. I've always had fun games.

To be fair since moving to The Shire I haven't played with any of the locals and given the amount of fishermen, farmers and oil peeps in the area it's a bit more right wing. OTOH there's bit of distaste of Trump in the area given the golf course debacle.

Not really, I've dealt with plenty of shit from these people in wargaming and a bit in RPGs (Alot of this happened before I was even really political), so not really in the mood, the issue is the leftoid views his politics as the simple nature of reality that you must except and not political after all.

I don't want to play with anyone who's being tedious about any real-world topic while I'm trying to play a game.  A guy I know went into the Obama version of TDS back a decade ago; he could not show up for a game without some rant about the libtards or trying to get the left-leaning DM to debate him about random things, which just wasted everyone's time.  I don't care whether someone's being tedious and wasting my time with liberal talking points or conservative ones, in any event it all works out the same in the end.

Quote from: SHARK on February 06, 2025, 03:36:01 AMGreetings!

No. I have zero tolerance for Leftists and any of their BS. NOT HAPPENING. It is bad enough I have to see them and hear them spew absolute nonsense and BS in society, on various online sites, and so on. I sure as fuck do not need to tolerate Leftists at my game table. It is my game table and I am the master. Noone is "entitled" to participate in my game at my game table.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

This.

I won't even knowingly associate with a lefty, I certainly won't spend any of my free time with them.

No, I have in the past during college. Leftist the specific term, not a liberal but an extremist. Leftists actually don't have the ability to put down the politics or ideology.

I also prefer games with some structure and realism while people on the left seem to like games with limited consequence, or faux realism. Fate, Fabula Ultima or 5e while ignoring many rules.  They use the games and their character as a conduit for their ideology.

I've just had better roleplaying experiences with people not on the left; even moderate lefties. Which i do believe is more of a last 10 years thing. Its also just easier without a lefty because if someone in or out of character makes an offhand comment no one will care.

I have no objection to role playing with someone of any ideology, as long as they can be nice to me and respect my beliefs. I currently role play with mostly people on the right (of various diverse forms of conservatism) but I play with one left leaning person as well. Plus I encounter scores of leftists in LARPs.

As a forever DM I only look for high-level play from the people at my table. I want ringers. Being dead serious about creating an environment for high-level play I get into a zone where response to character action is on point and the players are invested with each other to the point I am window dressing.

This makes questions like this pointless and meaningless. We are creating immersion weaving are lived experiences into our characters, entering unknown territory which richly rewards the creative mind. I see the players losing themselves in immersion. I call it the zone. Accomplished artists probably know what I am referring to. Injecting politics into this space just doesn't happen. Pro-players, get some if you can.

Lol, just got kicked out of a game/discord the day before the first session when one apparent far leftie said that he "hates to do this and bring up politics" but declared that he couldn't play in a campaign with a Trump supporter and asked if there were any.   I simply responded "I am." and the GM booted and blocked me within two minutes.   This was the first time real world politics were brought up in the lead up to the campaign.   The tolerant left strikes again! 

For all that's said by the left about tolerance...

 And for all that I appreciate tolerance of varying perspectives and ideas...

I feel like they oftentimes don't actually care about ideological tolerance save insofar as it benefits them and their pet causes. In fact, if you possess thoughts that they deem harmful to those causes, then you're out. Liberal now oftentimes means leftist, not pro-free-speech.

Which is a bummer, especially when sites like Discord will even themselves police user speech in the real world. It's like the social stigma isn't enough, and now they want to add corporate punishment to the mix. Let's just hope free speech stays intact, more generally.

That said, I do sometimes play D&D with leftists. Sometimes I even DM for them. I don't disqualify based on personal ideology, or wrong thought, only tangible problems at the table.

Quote from: KindaMeh on March 30, 2025, 11:31:31 AMThat said, I do sometimes play D&D with leftists. Sometimes I even DM for them. I don't disqualify based on personal ideology, or wrong thought, only tangible problems at the table.

Yeah. The issue for me (living in the pacific northwest) is that it's pretty one-sided. I can tolerate lefties if they don't bang on about politics or ideology. But during the course of an evening side topics come up. I sit there and imagine how my leftist friends, ranting at the table about how all conservatives are fascists and how Trump and Elon are Nazis who deserve to die painfully would react if it came up that I voted for Trump, twice. I honestly don't know how such a scenario would shake out. I'm not gonna lie to them, but I'm not going to mention it unless asked directly.
So I game in this funky state where most of the time it's a non-issue, but I'm always mentally prepared for the day when I might have to stop going to the gaming pub if things go badly one night over politics.

Quote from: Ratman_tf on March 30, 2025, 03:41:54 PM]I sit there and imagine how my leftist friends, ranting at the table about how all conservatives are fascists and how Trump and Elon are Nazis who deserve to die painfully would react if it came up that I voted for Trump, twice. I honestly don't know how such a scenario would shake out. I'm not gonna lie to them, but I'm not going to mention it unless asked directly.

I suspect that you know deep down how it would shake out and that's why you don't express your own views as freely as they do.  It's a sad state of things unfortunately.

I don't associate with communists, so I don't have to worry about it.

I game with people who would have been considered centrists or maybe even centre left 10-15 years ago which is now "far right".

I myself, am very conservative and am everything communists hate: straight, White, Catholic with multiple children, a stay at home wife with pets and support my family on my income.