If anyone is interested in seeing a highly entertaining game (in my opinion) here is the playlist for "Dusk" by Matt Colville. He is using D&D 4th edition rules, but he admits (in a video about using dreams and portents in your game) that he tried this years ago using 1st edition rules (the first game didn't go well because he failed to properly inform the players of some vital information).
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUk42GiU2gsYEWUOKp1WkMrkXMs6mw-K
Any description of what this is about?
It is an adventure Colville made; a party of non-human PCs are tasked with escorting a group of humans through a wood that is slowly becoming dangerously magical. It is more interesting than it sounds. The game begins in an inn, where there is a party game that turns into a brawl.
If you have listened to the Acquisitions, Inc. podcasts then you know how those games are basically a platform for the players to tell jokes. This game isn't like that; there are jokes, of course, but the players are playing in a more straightforward and serious manner, while still being entertaining.
Hard pass. Colville is an ultra woke human-shaped bag of dogshit.
Quote from: kreegan on November 14, 2021, 02:06:22 PM
Hard pass. Colville is an ultra woke human-shaped bag of dogshit.
I understand why you feel that way, but I feel he's a decent person, and he gives good advice. I enjoy his writing and videos.
Quote from: kreegan on November 14, 2021, 02:06:22 PM
Hard pass. Colville is an ultra woke human-shaped bag of dogshit.
Interesting. It doesn't really bleed through to his videos—although, I doubt I have watched all of them. His "History of D&D, One Fighter at a Time" series is quite good.
Anyway, I am getting some ideas about how to be a better DM just by watching this "Dusk" game.
Quote from: kreegan on November 14, 2021, 02:06:22 PM
Hard pass. Colville is an ultra woke human-shaped bag of dogshit.
Uh, what? Are you mistaking him for the Critical Role people? Did you think he was referencing Matt Mercer and not Matt Colville? Cause that does not describe Matt Colville at all. Matt's a pretty "ordinary dude" who came up through AD&D 1e and has a lot of old school sensibilities. He's not political in general.
Quote from: Mistwell on November 14, 2021, 02:57:43 PMe's not political in general.
That depends on what videos you watch. His game advice stuff doesn't get into political stuff. I'd say it's about 50/50 if you'll hear him say "oh yea, I'm a socialist" on any given Q&A livestream. I know I've heard that more than once from him. It wouldn't surprise me if there's other stuff, but that's the one that I remember hearing more than once.
Quote from: Almost_Useless on November 14, 2021, 04:35:52 PM
Quote from: Mistwell on November 14, 2021, 02:57:43 PMe's not political in general.
That depends on what videos you watch. His game advice stuff doesn't get into political stuff. I'd say it's about 50/50 if you'll hear him say "oh yea, I'm a socialist" on any given Q&A livestream. I know I've heard that more than once from him. It wouldn't surprise me if there's other stuff, but that's the one that I remember hearing more than once.
So his personal beliefs, which he doesn't put into any of his RPG stuff, make him an "ultra woke human-shaped bag of dogshit?"
BTW, socialism is not in any way linked to woke politics. In fact they often clash. Socialism is about class ideas. Wokism is about ideas of personal identify. Woke people often directly oppose socialist people, despite both being on the left side of the spectrum. My brother is a socialist and professor. He DESPISES the wokist and their obsession with identity politics. He views them as the single worst thing to ever happen to the left and as fake leftist who are just authoritarians posing as leftists for convenience.
Notice how I was responding to "He's not political in general." I said how much politics you get depends on what stuff of his you watch. That's it. I didn't say any of that other crap.
Quote from: Almost_Useless on November 14, 2021, 05:16:16 PM
Notice how I was responding to "He's not political in general." I said how much politics you get depends on what stuff of his you watch. That's it. I didn't say any of that other crap.
Fair enough but if you are going to argue someone is political in general, wouldn't they have to mention their politics some time other than when they're prompted by a question in a Q and A?
Quote from: Almost_Useless on November 14, 2021, 04:35:52 PM
Quote from: Mistwell on November 14, 2021, 02:57:43 PMe's not political in general.
That depends on what videos you watch. His game advice stuff doesn't get into political stuff. I'd say it's about 50/50 if you'll hear him say "oh yea, I'm a socialist" on any given Q&A livestream. I know I've heard that more than once from him. It wouldn't surprise me if there's other stuff, but that's the one that I remember hearing more than once.
Greetings!
Matt Coleville has admitted he is a Socialist?
Geesus. I have enjoyed his gaming articles and contributions to different gaming books over the years. I think he has been fairly involved in writing and that kind of thing, if I remember correctly.
*Shrugs* If he has admitted to being a Socialist, well, Geesus. How fucking brain dead and stupid can a person be? I'm not surprised though. This kind of thing has revealed how many people that appeared talented and presumably had their heads on right--in fact turn out to be complete morons.
That makes me think of the actor, Robert De Niro. Once upon a time, I had thought he was surely one of the most solid, grounded people around, especially in Hollywood.
No, the truth turns out, De Niro is an anti-Trump, anti-gun, Globalist/Leftist fucking moron.
So, yeah. I am not surprised really that Matt Coleville is a Socialist moron. It's super popular nowadays, just like the "uber sexy" and fashionable AOC. Fucking AOC got ELECTED as a Socialist. And, while she's the front-runner and most popular, the rest of the "Squad" are all Socialists, too. A congresswoman down in Georgia, I think--Corey Bush?--she is a fucking COMMUNIST for fuck's sake. She was an activist and member of BLM before she got elected.
So, yeah. Half the jackasses under the age of 40 according to research fucking love Socialism. So, fuck 'em. Let them get power-fucked in the ass and they can wallow in the sewer as the country gulps down Socialism. Socialism brings LOTS of starvation, famine, poverty, and bloodshed. Lots of marauders roaming around, raping, torturing, and killing. The day will come where the "authorities" won't be around to protect all the Socialist morons from their own selfishness and stupidity. The whole rotten system will simply explode and die, like we see happens with Socialist shitholes, like Venezuela.
Semper Fidelis,
SHARK
Quote from: kreegan on November 14, 2021, 02:06:22 PM
Hard pass. Colville is an ultra woke human-shaped bag of dogshit.
It is worse then that, he is a 4e lover.
>:(
Quote from: cavalier973 on November 14, 2021, 09:43:20 AM
If anyone is interested in seeing a highly entertaining game (in my opinion) here is the playlist for "Dusk" by Matt Colville. He is using D&D 4th edition rules, but he admits (in a video about using dreams and portents in your game) that he tried this years ago using 1st edition rules (the first game didn't go well because he failed to properly inform the players of some vital information).
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUk42GiU2gsYEWUOKp1WkMrkXMs6mw-K
He DMs Disney rides for players.
Matt Colville has never come across as woke. In fact, I admire his deep love of history. He seems to have a good grasp on history, culture, and how he can influence his own games. Even when he has similar talking points to more Woke personalities, he arrives at decisions based on his own personal opinions. For example:
He hates "evil" Orcs in his games, but the sole reason is because he finds that boring. But he also says that this is for his own games, and if everyone at your table wants Evil Orcs, then that's fine. He isn't here to tell you different.
He also hates the term "Race" but only because of its origins and what the term was used for. He personally uses the term "Ancestry" but has also still intermixes terms. Again, he doesn't look down on those that still use the term.
Matt doesn't FORCE people to use his worldview and in fact constantly stops what he is doing to explain that what works for your table works for your table, and he isn't the judge of your gaming group. That to me makes him okay in my book.
He likes 4e... then again, he likes ALL editions of D&D. Recently, he began feeling like 5e was a boring system and wanted to try out 4e again purely for the tactical style play. He also loves 1e as well, as that is the system he started on. I believe he has mentioned wanting to run a 1e game for his players as well.
I love the people trying to put distance between the woke and the left/Socialists. Keep working at it guys, that simply means you are starting to see the error of your ways but still have a ways to go yet.
It's quite easy to see a difference. Non-woke left does not throw apoplectic fits when people playing their games do not follow their believes.
Quote from: Ka'arl Sorcerer of Cha'alt on November 14, 2021, 09:44:11 PM
I love the people trying to put distance between the woke and the left/Socialists. Keep working at it guys, that simply means you are starting to see the error of your ways but still have a ways to go yet.
I'm well aware of the difference:
Socialists would send me to a re-education camp because I'm a Capitalist, therefore guilty of wrongthink.
The woke would send me to a re-education camp because I think that there are only 2, therefore guilty of wrongthink.
Both would destroy capitalism, society, western culture and institute a state police to spy on the citizens to root out any wrongthinkers.
Does it really mater what thought crime would land you in the gulag? Not to me it doesn't.
The woke are cultural marxists.
I'd like to see where Matt indicated this news of being socialist. I've been a "mild fan" since the Dune RPG and the Decipher Trek, which he worked on. I've read his novels. And I was an early subscriber to "running the game" (I think it was around the time he had under 1000 followers). He has tons of content, so I have not seen everything, so that is why I am asking.
Of note, I've met him in person, too, and he's an all around basic guy who loves gaming. I've never encountered a single political thing in conversation... the one thing that "bugs" me a bit is his "hair party" on screen, but it's part of his talking-head persona now, so whatever.
Quote from: Wrath of God on November 14, 2021, 09:45:30 PM
It's quite easy to see a difference. Non-woke left does not throw apoplectic fits when people playing their games do not follow their believes.
I thought that the Non-woke left still throws apoplectic fits but they do it for their own logical reasons.
Quote from: soundchaser on November 14, 2021, 10:21:12 PM
I'd like to see where Matt indicated this news of being socialist.
Behold the miracle of Google:
https://twitter.com/mattcolville/status/819303488022671361
Quote from: Almost_Useless on November 14, 2021, 11:02:13 PM
Quote from: soundchaser on November 14, 2021, 10:21:12 PM
I'd like to see where Matt indicated this news of being socialist.
Behold the miracle of Google:
https://twitter.com/mattcolville/status/819303488022671361
Thank you.
Also: ironic. As he now is a capitalist in action. Virtue signaling is so 'in' eh?
Quote from: soundchaser on November 14, 2021, 11:14:21 PM
Quote from: Almost_Useless on November 14, 2021, 11:02:13 PM
Quote from: soundchaser on November 14, 2021, 10:21:12 PM
I'd like to see where Matt indicated this news of being socialist.
Behold the miracle of Google:
https://twitter.com/mattcolville/status/819303488022671361
Thank you.
Also: ironic. As he now is a capitalist in action. Virtue signaling is so 'in' eh?
He also said it in at least 1 Q&A a few years back. He has also talked about using his position at MCDM to lift up non-white hetero normative or marginalized creators or something like that.
I'll be forever grateful for his early "running the game" videos. But between his far left (California leftie) views and his inability to keep all the promises he made for connecting Strongholds and Followers to Kingdoms and Warfare I'm done w him a d his company. He has cool ideas for dnd, but I've found DungeonCraft and Pundit more to my liking these days.
He isn't shy about it. But who cares? People are freaking out over nothing, especially the ones automatically condemning him as a bad person just for that viewpoint.
Now I haven't seen his Dusk game, but I've been interested. Mostly those game streams never pan out to be entertaining for me, despite trying hard to get "into" Critical Role and failing at it. Somehow that always puts me to sleep.
Quote from: Shasarak on November 14, 2021, 05:57:56 PM
Quote from: kreegan on November 14, 2021, 02:06:22 PM
Hard pass. Colville is an ultra woke human-shaped bag of dogshit.
It is worse then that, he is a 4e lover.
>:(
OK, I admit it, I laughed. ;D
And then I was angry again! >:( Oooooh, 4e!
QuoteI thought that the Non-woke left still throws apoplectic fits but they do it for their own logical reasons.
Non-Woke left throws fits only when Woke left support LGBTQ+ case, because as any decent Stalinist know rainbow!folk are just decadent liberals, and supporting them is betrayal of working class.
Quote from: mAcular Chaotic on November 15, 2021, 12:42:02 AM
He isn't shy about it. But who cares? People are freaking out over nothing, especially the ones automatically condemning him as a bad person just for that viewpoint.
Now I haven't seen his Dusk game, but I've been interested. Mostly those game streams never pan out to be entertaining for me, despite trying hard to get "into" Critical Role and failing at it. Somehow that always puts me to sleep.
Yeah, being in favor of the theft of your stuff shouldn't be seen as being a bad person /S WTAF!?
Quote from: GeekyBugle on November 15, 2021, 12:51:54 PM
Quote from: mAcular Chaotic on November 15, 2021, 12:42:02 AM
He isn't shy about it. But who cares? People are freaking out over nothing, especially the ones automatically condemning him as a bad person just for that viewpoint.
Now I haven't seen his Dusk game, but I've been interested. Mostly those game streams never pan out to be entertaining for me, despite trying hard to get "into" Critical Role and failing at it. Somehow that always puts me to sleep.
Yeah, being in favor of the theft of your stuff shouldn't be seen as being a bad person /S WTAF!?
Greetings!
*Laughing* So true, my friend!
You notice all the massaging, and dick-stroking going on? The minimalizing, and equivocating?
If Matt Coleville--or any of the cock-sucking Leftist politicians--had admitted they were NAZIS you wouldn't see any of the coddling going on.
But Socialist? Awww, that's no big deal!
...You may recall...the NAZIS are the National SOCIALIST party... ;D
Mind boggling how many people are so eager to fucking embrace Socialism.
Semper Fidelis,
SHARK
Eh...I enjoy the creative output of a lot of people with whose politics I disagree. I feel no compulsion to adopt their viewpoints. Colville's videos, as I mentioned earlier, are focused on the game, and have not pushed any political agenda.
Being a socialist is stupid; thinking that bureaucrats are the best people to manage the means of production is stupid. There is no incentive for bureaucrats to cut costs, until the inevitable collapse.
I doubt that Colville would sit placidly by if someone took his novels and game supplements and reprinted them to hand them out free of charge. I wonder if he thinks he will be one of those "in charge" under a socialist society, or if he will be part of the controlled. Something, something, useful idiots. Educated persons who support socialism don't tend to fare very well when the revolution actually happens.
Socialism is death. It is the death of the economy, it is the death of good government. It is the death of community, it is the death of individualism. It is the death of faith, it is the death of reason. It is literal death, as people starve, and are purposefully starved; as they are sent to death camps for not being part of some favored group.
I watched the recent video by Pundit about rpgs and capitalism. He is right: rpgs would not exist under a socialist regime. Anyone who can't see that is a numbskull.
Quote from: cavalier973 on November 15, 2021, 03:48:34 PM
Eh...I enjoy the creative output of a lot of people with whose politics I disagree. I feel no compulsion to adopt their viewpoints. Colville's videos, as I mentioned earlier, are focused on the game, and have not pushed any political agenda.
I'm with you on this. I don't give a shit about a creator's politics or beliefs unless they try to make it my business.
It's the woke people who administer the purity tests.
QuoteBeing a socialist is stupid; thinking that bureaucrats are the best people to manage the means of production is stupid. There is no incentive for bureaucrats to cut costs, until the inevitable collapse.
TBH Quite a lot of socialists are also anti-buerocratic, or even par-excelence anti-state.
Quote from: SHARK on November 15, 2021, 01:46:22 PM
Quote from: GeekyBugle on November 15, 2021, 12:51:54 PM
Quote from: mAcular Chaotic on November 15, 2021, 12:42:02 AM
He isn't shy about it. But who cares? People are freaking out over nothing, especially the ones automatically condemning him as a bad person just for that viewpoint.
Now I haven't seen his Dusk game, but I've been interested. Mostly those game streams never pan out to be entertaining for me, despite trying hard to get "into" Critical Role and failing at it. Somehow that always puts me to sleep.
Yeah, being in favor of the theft of your stuff shouldn't be seen as being a bad person /S WTAF!?
Greetings!
*Laughing* So true, my friend!
You notice all the massaging, and dick-stroking going on? The minimalizing, and equivocating?
If Matt Coleville--or any of the cock-sucking Leftist politicians--had admitted they were NAZIS you wouldn't see any of the coddling going on.
But Socialist? Awww, that's no big deal!
...You may recall...the NAZIS are the National SOCIALIST party... ;D
Mind boggling how many people are so eager to fucking embrace Socialism.
Semper Fidelis,
SHARK
Shark, why do you always refer to people you think are "bad" as "cock suckers?" I mean, you are aware that tends to be something closeted gay people are attracted to saying about "bad" things because they associate the "badness" in themselves with that activity, right? If it were a couple of times I'd just shrug but you seem to say it almost every time you're referencing people or ideas you find bad. It's kinda a red flag. Have you just never asked yourself why that seems to be your go-to insult for morally wrong people?
Quote from: Mistwell on November 16, 2021, 10:07:16 AM
Quote from: SHARK on November 15, 2021, 01:46:22 PM
Quote from: GeekyBugle on November 15, 2021, 12:51:54 PM
Quote from: mAcular Chaotic on November 15, 2021, 12:42:02 AM
He isn't shy about it. But who cares? People are freaking out over nothing, especially the ones automatically condemning him as a bad person just for that viewpoint.
Now I haven't seen his Dusk game, but I've been interested. Mostly those game streams never pan out to be entertaining for me, despite trying hard to get "into" Critical Role and failing at it. Somehow that always puts me to sleep.
Yeah, being in favor of the theft of your stuff shouldn't be seen as being a bad person /S WTAF!?
Greetings!
*Laughing* So true, my friend!
You notice all the massaging, and dick-stroking going on? The minimalizing, and equivocating?
If Matt Coleville--or any of the cock-sucking Leftist politicians--had admitted they were NAZIS you wouldn't see any of the coddling going on.
But Socialist? Awww, that's no big deal!
...You may recall...the NAZIS are the National SOCIALIST party... ;D
Mind boggling how many people are so eager to fucking embrace Socialism.
Semper Fidelis,
SHARK
Shark, why do you always refer to people you think are "bad" as "cock suckers?" I mean, you are aware that tends to be something closeted gay people are attracted to saying about "bad" things because they associate the "badness" in themselves with that activity, right? If it were a couple of times I'd just shrug but you seem to say it almost every time you're referencing people or ideas you find bad. It's kinda a red flag. Have you just never asked yourself why that seems to be your go-to insult for morally wrong people?
To be fair to SHARK, he also seems totally obsessed with ass-fucking...which lends your theory even more support.
Quote from: Mistwell on November 16, 2021, 10:07:16 AM
Quote from: SHARK on November 15, 2021, 01:46:22 PM
Quote from: GeekyBugle on November 15, 2021, 12:51:54 PM
Quote from: mAcular Chaotic on November 15, 2021, 12:42:02 AM
He isn't shy about it. But who cares? People are freaking out over nothing, especially the ones automatically condemning him as a bad person just for that viewpoint.
Now I haven't seen his Dusk game, but I've been interested. Mostly those game streams never pan out to be entertaining for me, despite trying hard to get "into" Critical Role and failing at it. Somehow that always puts me to sleep.
Yeah, being in favor of the theft of your stuff shouldn't be seen as being a bad person /S WTAF!?
Greetings!
*Laughing* So true, my friend!
You notice all the massaging, and dick-stroking going on? The minimalizing, and equivocating?
If Matt Coleville--or any of the cock-sucking Leftist politicians--had admitted they were NAZIS you wouldn't see any of the coddling going on.
But Socialist? Awww, that's no big deal!
...You may recall...the NAZIS are the National SOCIALIST party... ;D
Mind boggling how many people are so eager to fucking embrace Socialism.
Semper Fidelis,
SHARK
Shark, why do you always refer to people you think are "bad" as "cock suckers?" I mean, you are aware that tends to be something closeted gay people are attracted to saying about "bad" things because they associate the "badness" in themselves with that activity, right? If it were a couple of times I'd just shrug but you seem to say it almost every time you're referencing people or ideas you find bad. It's kinda a red flag. Have you just never asked yourself why that seems to be your go-to insult for morally wrong people?
Greetings!
Hmmm...how does degenerate fucking pussies sound? ;D
Semper Fidelis,
SHARK
Quote from: HappyDaze on November 16, 2021, 10:17:58 AM
Quote from: Mistwell on November 16, 2021, 10:07:16 AM
Quote from: SHARK on November 15, 2021, 01:46:22 PM
Quote from: GeekyBugle on November 15, 2021, 12:51:54 PM
Quote from: mAcular Chaotic on November 15, 2021, 12:42:02 AM
He isn't shy about it. But who cares? People are freaking out over nothing, especially the ones automatically condemning him as a bad person just for that viewpoint.
Now I haven't seen his Dusk game, but I've been interested. Mostly those game streams never pan out to be entertaining for me, despite trying hard to get "into" Critical Role and failing at it. Somehow that always puts me to sleep.
Yeah, being in favor of the theft of your stuff shouldn't be seen as being a bad person /S WTAF!?
Greetings!
*Laughing* So true, my friend!
You notice all the massaging, and dick-stroking going on? The minimalizing, and equivocating?
If Matt Coleville--or any of the cock-sucking Leftist politicians--had admitted they were NAZIS you wouldn't see any of the coddling going on.
But Socialist? Awww, that's no big deal!
...You may recall...the NAZIS are the National SOCIALIST party... ;D
Mind boggling how many people are so eager to fucking embrace Socialism.
Semper Fidelis,
SHARK
Shark, why do you always refer to people you think are "bad" as "cock suckers?" I mean, you are aware that tends to be something closeted gay people are attracted to saying about "bad" things because they associate the "badness" in themselves with that activity, right? If it were a couple of times I'd just shrug but you seem to say it almost every time you're referencing people or ideas you find bad. It's kinda a red flag. Have you just never asked yourself why that seems to be your go-to insult for morally wrong people?
To be fair to SHARK, he also seems totally obsessed with ass-fucking...which lends your theory even more support.
Greetings!
Obsessed? Nope. Our entire society seems to preoccupied with gays and trans, so evidently many, many people like getting fucked in the ass.
Plus, well, it is emblematic for weak, feminized, degenerate men, which seems to be an accurate reflection of our society in general. Our society has become full of weak, feminized, degenerate, men.
Semper Fidelis,
SHARK
I used to watch Colville's stuff as at first it was well narrated.
But over time I started to see the cracks in the mask and realized that he has this knack for making really bad DMing sound really great. He also gives increasingly bad GM advice. And that was well before his agendas started creeping into any of this.
Then a year or two ago he went off the deep end with a few vids that cant find now thanks to FuckYouTube deleting my account. After that I just dropped him and moved on.
Narratively hes really good. But the minute you stop to listen to what hes saying instead of how hes saying it, this is where things can start falling apart. Its a pity as he has the gift for good oration.