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Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel *SIGH*

Started by AnthonyRoberson, March 22, 2022, 10:17:19 AM

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Omega

#15
March 22, 2022, 06:19:57 PM
Most likely the agenda platform is yet another outrage marketing baiting for free advertising. Kinda sadly like what we are giving them right now.

Odds are that the book itself will have not a hint of it. Or be so small you might never notice. That way they can discredit anyone speaking up. Or have a scapegoat if it bombs. Marketing 101. And since this is a WOTC book that is near guaranteed at this point as it is their goto SOP baiting.

Accaris

#16
March 22, 2022, 06:22:23 PM
There's a difference between a "safe haven" and a "safe space"

palaeomerus

#17
March 22, 2022, 06:24:33 PM
If D&D wants to catch up the the fantasy/sci-fi publishing they really need to give a top award to some adventure based on consensual dinosaur fucking poetry.
Emery

THE_Leopold

#18
March 22, 2022, 06:46:58 PM
Quote from: palaeomerus on March 22, 2022, 06:24:33 PM
If D&D wants to catch up the the fantasy/sci-fi publishing they really need to give a top award to some adventure based on consensual dinosaur fucking poetry.

Don't you dare sully Dr. Chuck Tingle's genius writing experiences by comparing it to WOTC drivel.
NKL4Lyfe

Omega

#19
March 22, 2022, 07:19:11 PM
Quote from: THE_Leopold on March 22, 2022, 06:46:58 PM
Quote from: palaeomerus on March 22, 2022, 06:24:33 PM
If D&D wants to catch up the the fantasy/sci-fi publishing they really need to give a top award to some adventure based on consensual dinosaur fucking poetry.

Don't you dare sully Dr. Chuck Tingle's genius writing experiences by comparing it to WOTC drivel.

No love for the majestic condor?  :'(

pawsplay

#20
March 22, 2022, 07:24:03 PM
So help me out here. Is the new book too woke, or is it Candyland for kiddies that ignores the real world? I don't see how it could be both.

Omega

#21
March 22, 2022, 07:36:05 PM
Quote from: pawsplay on March 22, 2022, 07:24:03 PM
So help me out here. Is the new book too woke, or is it Candyland for kiddies that ignores the real world? I don't see how it could be both.

Neither from the looks of it.

Its some sort of save haven and thats about all we know.
WOTC had done the usual outrage marketing bait dangling with it. But as said. Odds are its not gonna have hardly a hint of it in the actual product.

Looks like its just kinda... there... peaceful, colourful, A market, city, venue, rest stop, tavern, party, whatever.

I am curious as to exactly how they keep it that way because a place like that would attract every maniac in existence there to mess with it, subvert it, or just outright destroy it.

I am betting that theres some big reveal that the place isnt as great as it seems or that the adventures for the place fuck it all up by makeing them all combat strife and petty squabbles. Its WOTC.

Rob Necronomicon

#22
March 22, 2022, 07:38:17 PM
It sounds like a kids TV show or something and I grew out of that shit years ago. And that's the very reason I wouldn't touch D&D with a set of asbestos gloves and steel tongs.

But whatever floats your boat...

Shasarak

#23
March 22, 2022, 07:55:33 PM
I think my favourite so far is this little gem:

QuoteSalted Legacy (1st level, Surena Marie). Rival merchant families are at war in the Night Market. Various challenges such as a timed cooking challenge.

Everyone get your pots, pans and freshest cooking ingredients - we are going to WAR!
Who da Drow?  U da drow! - hedgehobbit

There will be poor always,
pathetically struggling,
look at the good things you've got! -  Jesus

VisionStorm

#24
March 22, 2022, 08:01:48 PM
Quote from: Shasarak on March 22, 2022, 07:55:33 PM
I think my favourite so far is this little gem:

QuoteSalted Legacy (1st level, Surena Marie). Rival merchant families are at war in the Night Market. Various challenges such as a timed cooking challenge.

Everyone get your pots, pans and freshest cooking ingredients - we are going to WAR!

I never thought I'd live to see the day when D&D turned into such a vacuous undertaking that it would feature cooking challenges as one of the key features in one of its published adventures. In fact the thought that such a thing could happen didn't even enter my mind. Yet here we are, and these people have taken over the game.

THE_Leopold

#25
March 22, 2022, 08:05:38 PM Last Edit: March 22, 2022, 08:07:16 PM by THE_Leopold
Grim Jim does a nice deep dive into the utterly racist book that WOTC is putting out and the sheer drivel and hypocrisy of the company





Whatever way you feel about Jim he's spot on in this video.
Radiant Rainbows is written by Non-White's, edited by Non-Whites, and specifically telling Non-Whites "Since you'll never be published anyway we will do that for you, there there Daddy Wizard has you covered".

Every NPC will have their pronouns listed and the amount of Humans vs. EVERYTHING ELSE will be 1:10.  I'll put $1 on it right now.
NKL4Lyfe

Kyle Aaron

#26
March 22, 2022, 08:51:17 PM
Quote from: Accaris on March 22, 2022, 12:06:44 PMFrom the Polygon article:

Unlike other cities from the modern D&D lore — places like Baldur's Gate and Waterdeep — the Radiant Citadel isn't overrun by crime lords, demons, or mind flayers. Instead, it's a place where people can live together in peace.
Excellent! This is the perfect place for adventurers to collect loot! Pacifists are so much easier to rob.
The Viking Hat GM
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Shasarak

#27
March 22, 2022, 08:57:05 PM
Quote from: VisionStorm on March 22, 2022, 08:01:48 PM
Quote from: Shasarak on March 22, 2022, 07:55:33 PM
I think my favourite so far is this little gem:

QuoteSalted Legacy (1st level, Surena Marie). Rival merchant families are at war in the Night Market. Various challenges such as a timed cooking challenge.

Everyone get your pots, pans and freshest cooking ingredients - we are going to WAR!

I never thought I'd live to see the day when D&D turned into such a vacuous undertaking that it would feature cooking challenges as one of the key features in one of its published adventures. In fact the thought that such a thing could happen didn't even enter my mind. Yet here we are, and these people have taken over the game.

I had more faith in your longevity.

But I must say that it is brilliant of WotC to save so much money by only employing coloured people to write the book.  Genius!  Pay them in exposure.
Who da Drow?  U da drow! - hedgehobbit

There will be poor always,
pathetically struggling,
look at the good things you've got! -  Jesus

SHARK

#28
March 22, 2022, 09:01:37 PM
Greetings!

I think the "Radiant Citadel" sounds like a wonderful place!

A Genghis Khan-like figure and his Horde, or a mighty Harold Hadrada and his Viking armies would wreck this place quick!

Just imagine all the fires burning everywhere, the screaming, the sobbing, and the lamentations of the women!

Loot being carried out in long wagon trains, or trains of weird creatures, heavy-laden with the booty of the conquered!

Long queues of sobbing inhabitants, broken to the yoke of slavery. Being marched off to eternal servitude by their new masters.

*Laughing*

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK
"It is the Marine Corps that will strip away the façade so easily confused with self. It is the Corps that will offer the pain needed to buy the truth. And at last, each will own the privilege of looking inside himself  to discover what truly resides there. Comfort is an illusion. A false security b

Thorn Drumheller

#29
March 22, 2022, 09:10:57 PM
Quote from: tenbones on March 22, 2022, 11:49:02 AM
Eh, looks like the natural evolution of modern D&D.

I mean, kids need their RPG's too. This is not a game aimed at people like me. Not a problem.

Yup, agreed.
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