We should have all seen this coming from the Woke #DnD crowd... Bandit Lives Matter.
#ttrpg #osr
Theft is universally regarded as evil. Even people who are okay with stealing from others, do not want to be stolen from, so even if they can ot see that what they do is wrong, when it is done to them, it still seems wrong to them.
The only thing I want to get from this is a betting pool on what WotC will rename bandits.
1st) Banditos (too Mexican - note they would say this to the Belize guy in the meeting)
2nd) Communists (redundant term)
3rd) Aladins (too Islamaphobic)
4th) Whites (most likely)
Quote from: honeydipperdavid on September 07, 2023, 01:33:35 PM
The only thing I want to get from this is a betting pool on what WotC will rename bandits.
1st) Banditos (too Mexican - note they would say this to the Belize guy in the meeting)
2nd) Communists (redundant term)
3rd) Aladins (too Islamaphobic)
4th) Whites (most likely)
"Social Justice Protesters"
WotC Coast will call them Reallocators.
Quote from: RPGPundit on September 07, 2023, 04:15:27 PM
Quote from: honeydipperdavid on September 07, 2023, 01:33:35 PM
The only thing I want to get from this is a betting pool on what WotC will rename bandits.
1st) Banditos (too Mexican - note they would say this to the Belize guy in the meeting)
2nd) Communists (redundant term)
3rd) Aladins (too Islamaphobic)
4th) Whites (most likely)
"Social Justice Protesters"
Joking aside, I bet they will call them "Liberators", with a pussy description about how some liberators are just bandits like robin hood or dread pirates like blackbeard. What can be guaranteed though, they are never chaotic evil and don't assume their pronouns.
Quote from: Scooter on September 07, 2023, 05:19:18 PM
WotC Coast will call them Reallocators.
Regulators!!!!! Mount up.
Lets see:
Products to play as a barista running Ye Olde Starbucks? Check
DO NOT dare "discriminate" against Orcs, Goblins, Tieflings, etc? Check
Bandits are just Robin Hood? Check
They WANT to play in current year Seattle.
You must be kind to bandits. You have no idea what they have been through. If they whack you on the head with a stick, you must reply "thank you, may I have another." This is truly great stuff- for the OSR.
As Hasbro watches the once valuable D&D brand sink beneath the waves, they will wail and cry out " Why?, why? We did everything our masters commanded of us. We were promised riches beyond our wildest dreams."
Quote from: Exploderwizard on September 07, 2023, 07:48:09 PM
You must be kind to bandits. You have no idea what they have been through. If they whack you on the head with a stick, you must reply "thank you, may I have another." This is truly great stuff- for the OSR.
As Hasbro watches the once valuable D&D brand sink beneath the waves, they will wail and cry out " Why?, why? We did everything our masters commanded of us. We were promised riches beyond our wildest dreams."
If there is one good think about the Wokesters of the Coast, they will do whatever Twitter tells them to do if it comes from a leftist. Basement dwelling black block members who had their dicks split in half got WotC to change Drow lore, label all their work racist, hire censorship comissars which are now making WotC make up cringe words that their player base hates and hire incompetent boobs to write trash based on their magic blood and the super special magical genital hole preference ability.
I normally put in a woke asshole or two in as a minor bumbling and annoying villain. Well this time for the new group at the hobby shop, he's going to be hanging with a "typal" of goblins, and when a player asks him did he mean tribe he's going to go on a tyrade.
Quote from: honeydipperdavid on September 08, 2023, 01:30:52 AM
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I normally put in a woke asshole or two in as a minor bumbling and annoying villain. Well this time for the new group at the hobby shop, he's going to be hanging with a "typal" of goblins, and when a player asks him did he mean tribe he's going to go on a tyrade.
Heh, I don't. Bad enough dealing with them in the real world. No way am I letting them in my escapist fantasy time.
Equity allies?
Quote from: GeekyBugle on September 07, 2023, 07:12:17 PM
Bandits are just Robin Hood? Check
They WANT to play in current year Seattle.
Robin Hood robbed the government (the only rich of the day) and gave it back to the overtaxed (everyone under the thumb of the government).
Current year Seattle thugs rob the overtaxed (small business owners) while being coddled by the corrupt government.
The best way to understand modern D&D at current year Seattle leaks into it is to flip its alignment chart. What they call good is in fact evil and what they call evil is most likely good.
Quote from: Chris24601 on September 08, 2023, 08:04:00 AM
Quote from: GeekyBugle on September 07, 2023, 07:12:17 PM
Bandits are just Robin Hood? Check
They WANT to play in current year Seattle.
Robin Hood robbed the government (the only rich of the day) and gave it back to the overtaxed (everyone under the thumb of the government).
Current year Seattle thugs rob the overtaxed (small business owners) while being coddled by the corrupt government.
The best way to understand modern D&D at current year Seattle leaks into it is to flip its alignment chart. What they call good is in fact evil and what they call evil is most likely good.
The best way to understand modern D&D is the writers are part of the "Burn it all down and from the ashes we'll build anew", IOW's they have a lot of race marxists on their payroll. The radiant citadel essentially advocates for multiracial communist style state, which was pretty weird to see in a module. When you read between the lines, its like OK WotC, good luck with that. WotC is ideologically captured by the hard left and its showing up in their work.
Woke doesn't sell, it causes people to leave the franchise and they don't come back. Disney is in a death spiral due to woke content, and when they put out good content people won't consume it. I know I haven't touched anything from Disney and frankly never will at this point, I just don't want to watch another 100 lb 5'1" woman beating a 225 lb 6'4" guy - my ability to suspend disbelief is done. WotC listens to to Twitter and the internal race marxists uses it as evidence to go further to the left. Typal is going to raise a flag with normies. If they change bandits to some other made up term, its going to raise another flag. Most normies have no clue who Gygax is and they don't buy older content, but if they did then those statements calling all creators racist from 4E and earlier would have been their "cuties" moment. I think WotC has a ways to go, but they will keep going farther to the left till it loses the normies.
LOL, at this point I firmly believe the fascists are just throwing shite at the wall and seeing what will stick....what people willingly put up with.
I'm one of those that has popcorn and a pepsi watching our civilization decline day by day.
Quote from: Thorn Drumheller on September 08, 2023, 10:53:58 AM
LOL, at this point I firmly believe the fascists are just throwing shite at the wall and seeing what will stick....what people willingly put up with.
I'm one of those that has popcorn and a pepsi watching our civilization decline day by day.
I'm hoping that for 6E they drop all gendered speech. I really want to see them go down that path. For session 0, ask everyone their pronouns, and put in a section about how its a safe space and where you can send children to get transitioned and be safe away from their parents. Depending on how much sway the left gets, I could see them putting something along those lines in the next PHB.
I'm waiting for some Mom's Against D&D to start forming, because they are going to push into some zones of degeneracy and with the kids they target, its going to blow up in their faces. They have pedo judges for MTG and if you go to D&D Beyond LFG you see 12 year old boys LFG online with no mod action at all. It might as well be Grinder for pedophiles. That company has a lot of avenues of attack for bad behavior and they aren't addressing it. If I was WotC Risk Management and I went to the LFG forum, I'd have a double heart attack.
Quote from: honeydipperdavid on September 08, 2023, 11:09:44 AM
I'm hoping that for 6E they drop all gendered speech. I really want to see them go down that path. For session 0, ask everyone their pronouns, and put in a section about how its a safe space and where you can send children to get transitioned and be safe away from their parents. Depending on how much sway the left gets, I could see them putting something along those lines in the next PHB.
I'm waiting for some Mom's Against D&D to start forming, because they are going to push into some zones of degeneracy and with the kids they target, its going to blow up in their faces. They have pedo judges for MTG and if you go to D&D Beyond LFG you see 12 year old boys LFG online with no mod action at all. It might as well be Grinder for pedophiles. That company has a lot of avenues of attack for bad behavior and they aren't addressing it. If I was WotC Risk Management and I went to the LFG forum, I'd have a double heart attack.
Risk management isn't as big a deal when you have a government trying to normalize this sick shit.
Keep in mind that theres a percentage of the woke that push various forms of theft as a good thing.
But it is only when THEY do it.
Also odds are that this new bit of stupid is just another marketing ploy.
Quote from: Omega on September 08, 2023, 07:30:24 PM
Keep in mind that theres a percentage of the woke that push various forms of theft as a good thing.
But it is only when THEY do it.
Also odds are that this new bit of stupid is just another marketing ploy.
It's a grassroots thing, as grassroots as you can get from the wokeratty, but it's not something from any published book/supplement AFAIK, I saw the twatter posts/threads Pundit is talking about.
Quote from: GeekyBugle on September 08, 2023, 08:38:53 PM
Quote from: Omega on September 08, 2023, 07:30:24 PM
Keep in mind that theres a percentage of the woke that push various forms of theft as a good thing.
But it is only when THEY do it.
Also odds are that this new bit of stupid is just another marketing ploy.
It's a grassroots thing, as grassroots as you can get from the wokeratty, but it's not something from any published book/supplement AFAIK, I saw the twatter posts/threads Pundit is talking about.
Correct, but how long until the WotC writers with a Twitter/X presence end up thinking its a great idea?
Quote from: RPGPundit on September 09, 2023, 12:25:47 AM
Quote from: GeekyBugle on September 08, 2023, 08:38:53 PM
Quote from: Omega on September 08, 2023, 07:30:24 PM
Keep in mind that theres a percentage of the woke that push various forms of theft as a good thing.
But it is only when THEY do it.
Also odds are that this new bit of stupid is just another marketing ploy.
It's a grassroots thing, as grassroots as you can get from the wokeratty, but it's not something from any published book/supplement AFAIK, I saw the twatter posts/threads Pundit is talking about.
Correct, but how long until the WotC writers with a Twitter/X presence end up thinking its a great idea?
I'm not denying they will. Just explaining it's NOT a marketing thing from WotKKK
Bandits are good, and no doubt it's their socio-economic situation that led them to banditry => let them go free.
But PC parties came from groups killing orcs, who we are "reliably" informed represent black people => defund player parties and make them the villains, since they are institutionally and systemically white supremacist. Honestly, I'm tempted to use that line of argument next time someone plays 5th edition as a Seattle cafe simulator. Let them have a dose of their own sophistry.
The difference between grave robbing and archaeology is time and perspective :D
Jokes aside, though, they ALWAYS think it's good till their stuff gets nicked.
Quote from: Ghostmaker on September 11, 2023, 11:36:25 AM
The difference between grave robbing and archaeology is time and perspective :D
Jokes aside, though, they ALWAYS think it's good till their stuff gets nicked.
You mean libtards are hypocrites? ???
Quote from: Scooter on September 11, 2023, 03:33:23 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on September 11, 2023, 11:36:25 AM
The difference between grave robbing and archaeology is time and perspective :D
Jokes aside, though, they ALWAYS think it's good till their stuff gets nicked.
You mean libtards are hypocrites? ???
They presume the crime will happen to other people.
Quote from: RPGPundit on September 12, 2023, 12:53:47 PM
Quote from: Scooter on September 11, 2023, 03:33:23 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on September 11, 2023, 11:36:25 AM
The difference between grave robbing and archaeology is time and perspective :D
Jokes aside, though, they ALWAYS think it's good till their stuff gets nicked.
You mean libtards are hypocrites? ???
They presume the crime will happen to other people.
In SF the libtards are up in arms because it only happens to them. No non-libs being around to be victimized...
Quote from: Scooter on September 12, 2023, 01:46:28 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit on September 12, 2023, 12:53:47 PM
Quote from: Scooter on September 11, 2023, 03:33:23 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on September 11, 2023, 11:36:25 AM
The difference between grave robbing and archaeology is time and perspective :D
Jokes aside, though, they ALWAYS think it's good till their stuff gets nicked.
You mean libtards are hypocrites? ???
They presume the crime will happen to other people.
In SF the libtards are up in arms because it only happens to them. No non-libs being around to be victimized...
Maybe they should inform the criminals/lunatics that they do not consent to being victimized?
Quote from: GeekyBugle on September 12, 2023, 02:10:56 PM
Quote from: Scooter on September 12, 2023, 01:46:28 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit on September 12, 2023, 12:53:47 PM
Quote from: Scooter on September 11, 2023, 03:33:23 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on September 11, 2023, 11:36:25 AM
The difference between grave robbing and archaeology is time and perspective :D
Jokes aside, though, they ALWAYS think it's good till their stuff gets nicked.
You mean libtards are hypocrites? ???
They presume the crime will happen to other people.
In SF the libtards are up in arms because it only happens to them. No non-libs being around to be victimized...
Maybe they should inform the criminals/lunatics that they do not consent to being victimized?
Yes, they should carry signs where ever they stating that.