Quote from: RPGPundit on August 28, 2021, 08:47:55 PM
Bringing to your attention: Spanish antifa-gamers took note of this thread, and apparently forgot I'm Latino and can read them.

They are super insistent that the publisher of Forbidden Lands (Free League) should actually be in the red. Though since they're all communists I wouldn't trust their word on it.

https://twitter.com/agburanar/status/1431522425787748353

Do they have anything tangible to support this, or are they just 'trust us it's bad'!

Hello ... first post. I was brought here by RPG Pundit's discussion of this very thread on the most recent broadcast of Inappropriate Characters.

For your consideration to be added to the GREEN group:

- Columbia Games (makers of HarnWorld and HarnMaster RPG products, Wizard-Kings, and several classic and historically accurate block-style wargames)

Quote from: Terry LMD on August 30, 2021, 03:52:11 AM
Hello ... first post. I was brought here by RPG Pundit's discussion of this very thread on the most recent broadcast of Inappropriate Characters.

For your consideration to be added to the GREEN group:

- Columbia Games (makers of HarnWorld and HarnMaster RPG products, Wizard-Kings, and several classic and historically accurate block-style wargames)

Yeah, the guys at Columbia Games have always been pretty friendly.

Quote from: Terry LMD on August 30, 2021, 03:52:11 AM
Hello ... first post. I was brought here by RPG Pundit's discussion of this very thread on the most recent broadcast of Inappropriate Characters.

For your consideration to be added to the GREEN group:

- Columbia Games (makers of HarnWorld and HarnMaster RPG products, Wizard-Kings, and several classic and historically accurate block-style wargames)

Welcome!, almost ready to actually post this up for easer access for sticky. I backed one of the Harnworld city books for a dollar just to check it out. Never got as into it as I would like but definitely didnt seem woke.

Updated List

Green
Not Woke or Indifferent

• RPG Pundit (Lion and Dragon, Arrows of Indra, Dark Albion): Historical fiction and stays true to the mindset of the times. See his YT channel. Might create a new category here for anti sjw.
• Troll Lord Games (Castles and Crusades/Siege Engine) Supports vets with big discounts, generally stays apolitical.
• Studio Agate/Shadows of Esteren No indication of any affiliation. Decent game, takes forever to fill kickstarters though.
• Precis Intermedia: "Makers of the Genre Diversion System and a publisher of any other games. Never seen anything woke from them, and the owner seems like a really cool, level-headed guy"
• Autarch/ACKS Definitely not woke
• Necrotic Gnome (Old School Essentials) Makes a point to be apolitical
• Basic Fantasy Also keeps politics separate from products
• OSRIC Hasn't given any indication of getting political
• Whitebox: FMAG No indication of getting poltical
• Goblinoid Games (Labyrinth Lord) No indication of getting political
• Frog God Games/Swords and Wizardry Did a bit of pandering with an all female printing of Swords and Wizardry, suspect but worth noting.
• Post Mortem Studios (Tales of Gor, Punk RPG, Grimdark) Visit the storefront, can't imagine them giving a shit what people think
• Palladium Does what they have always done, make gonzo worlds
• North Wind Adventures (Astonishing Swordsman and Sorcerers of Hyperborea) Hired some woke artist, but otherwise seems faithful to AD&D. Doesnt Appear to get preachy
• Kort'thalis Publishing/Venger Satanis (Alpha Blue, Cha'alt) Anti SJW
• Peterson Games (Cthulhu Mythos among others) They tried to cancel him for thinking that men shouldn't compete in women's sports. Seems like a genuinely nice dude
• Riot Minds (Trudvang, Lex Occultum) Does not appear to be political, you can get their proprietary system or the D&D adaptation or adopt the setting to your own system. It's a beautiful setting with outstanding artwork.
• Lamentations of the Flame Princess Edgelords, cannot be contained. They were on the receiving end of the cancel mob and twiterati for a while.
• For Gold and Glory Nothing to suggest going woke, seems indifferent.
• Immersive Ink (Delving Deeper) Indifferent
• Sine Nomine (Scarlet Heroes, Stars Without Number Indifferent
• Symbaroum Haven't seen anything political from them
• Schwalb Entertainment (Shadow of the Demon Lord) They bent the knee a while back and put a pro BLM message though it has been taken down since, so they get to be green for now. More information is needed
• Columbia Games (Harnworld, Harnmaster, Block War Games) Aims for historical realism based on the medieval period. They don't appear to be political at all and just trying to make a historical experience.
• Far Future Enterprises (Traveller 5th Edition) No indication one way or another
• Kobold Press On the receiving end of being cancelled for "seductive monsters," no indication of getting woke
• Sasquatch Studio (Primeval Thule) "not seen anything woke from them, Rich Baker seems a decent bloke. Suggest Green. http://www.sasquatchgamestudio.com/ Albeit they seem pretty dormant." -s'mon

Yellow
Sort of Woke or Panders- If it's there it's subtle. They "bend the knee" to the grifters, or maybe they themselves are woke

• Catalyst Game Labs (Shadowrun) Giving them the benefit of the doubt for now unless someone shows otherwise but this was posted last year https://www.catalystgamelabs.com/2020/06/11/catalyst-game-labs-statement-on-social-justice/
• Fantasy Flight Games Hard to decide if it belongs here or just in the woke catagory. They gender and race swap characters, ban words that might be considered offensive like Banzai, and generally allow the woke mob to take over the forums and run away with their trade dress etc. They dont constantly harass potential customers and tell them how much they hate em at least.
• Talsorian Games Mixed Bag imo, they lean really heavily into IDIC (Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations) it's on their page rules. Lots of pronouns in bios, They havn't gone full crazy just yet
• Goodman Games - Tried to protect itself by distancing itself from Judges Guild and donating to ADL. Other than that can't really find anything else on them. Praised BLM for a time
• Chaosium (Runequest, Call of Cthulhu, Pendragon) "Chaosium has Lynne Hardy who labelled Masks of Nyarlathotep as racist and therefore Larry DiTillo as racist also.  She did this while acting as Chaosium's political commissar on the 7e version of Masks the results of which were BLM supporting additions and gender and race swapping NPCs to conform to woke quotas... In RuneQuest Glorthana they are progressively removing white people. At first the Pelorians were to remain pale but given recent artwork I doubt that.  I think the only one that could still be white are Ygg Islanders who are a sort of Scandinavian   people.  But since the Opening of the  seas most of them have left the island as Wolf Pirates and have now thoroughly mixed with other cultures.  Cults (and game mechanics) have been rewritten to please the leftest females around Jeff Richards as well...hrowing Sandy Petersen under the bus on social media despite official response on this forum that Chaosium has people with wide ranging viewpoints that are supported by the company. What should tip them over is Pendragon 6e given that David Larkins is heading this up and there have been calls for all NPCS to be a 50%/50% gender split and it's a given that female knights will be mandated."-Gagarth
• Mongoose Games Had a don't be a dick section in paranoia, recommended by poster. Open for debate whether yellow or green
• Modiphious Publishes some woke products, but doesn't seem to only publish woke products
• Pinnacle Entertainment (Savage Worlds/Deadlands) Removed the CSA from Deadlands and removed a lot of the old art that might offend anyone particuarly anything with partial nudity or more risque outfits. Also made sure there weren't "too many white guys" in their core rulebook. Still pretty solid but they pander or cave to demands occasionally
• Hero Games Hires sensitivity readers
• GURPs/Steve Jackson Games Banned by rpg net for not being woke, though some of the devs might be. Steven Jackson signed onto october surprise, so he did come down with a case of TDS
• Free League Standard "Gaming is for everyone" spiel, could go either way. Published forbidden lands, which slips in some anti woke themes. Yellow leaning Green
• Atlas Games (Ars Magica) President of Atlas-Games has total TDS and is another blue checkmark. Unsure of how badly it shows in there games. For now its yellow bordering on red.
• Edge Studios Acquired all of FFG rpg line, they toe the standard line and employ quite a few hardcore sjws
• Reaper Miniatures Had some drama about an employee getting into a fight with some antifa sympathizer. Read this and make up your own mind https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/6txuht/reaper_miniatures_may_have_fired_a_guy_for_shit/
• Gallant Knight Games (Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells, the Tiny RPGs Partnered with Diogo Nogueira. Moved here from red but has a strong relationship with Diogo as far as I know but I can't find examples of them actually doing anything wrong other than that.
• Heroforge Miniatures They pander hard, are not overt about it but i'm sure they will do something stupid soon.

Red
Woke,These people probably despise you if you don't fall in line and they aren't afraid to let you know it.

• Wizards of the Coast - Harasses customers, diversity checkboxes, hires based on race, pedo judges, bans anyone they disagree with on social issues from all sanctioned events. True dumpster fire.
• Paizo- Has whole pages in their books telling you how you must play there game and be inclusive. Harasses customers, aggressively moderates forums against anyone to the right of stalin, Retconned Golarion lore to be more inclusive, starfinder even had an adventure where you needed to get a professor at a university to apologize for being insensitive despite being factually correct. No lie, first adventure path. Another AP for Pathfinder showed all men as incompetent, read like a tumblr blog and all the women were super powerful and if you didnt bring the black, lesbian, disabled ranger with you then you automatically lost. Iron Gods or something like that.
• Zweihander/Grim and Perilous Games- Freakin Dumpster Fire,
• Cubicle 7 - Not as bad as the others on this list, they're definitely woke. Their art design generally shows it, having extremely odd choices for portraits in warhammer fantasy line and ignoring in world cultural practices like female dwarven artisans arent generally a thing. Ticks diversity checkboxes, pronouns in the bio. I havn't seen them harassing customers yet so that's a win.
• Renegade Game Studios/Vampire the Masquerade 5e Not sure where to start with these guys, woke in their products and openly hate you
• Onyx Path Publishing/Chronicles of Darkness
• New White Wolf Publishing Not sure if they're still around, see Mophidious and Onyx Path they're all sister companies.
• Green Ronin- Chris Pramas is a full-on member of ANTIFA, has a vitriolic hatred for white people, and his products reflect this. Publishes "Blue Rose", the gay RPG
• Monkey House Games/Jeff Dee: Enormous asshole and activist. If you are republican or conservative or Christian this hates you.
• Evil Hat Productions- Another poster child for woke gaming. Embedded in everything from their forums, to their products and staff. Openly tells you if you don't like their politics don't buy their games. Too easy
• Ockult Ortmastare Games/Stockholm Cartell (Mork Borg) - Uses OGL to shoot down authors they disagree with. Supports BLM and bailing out rioters
• Sigil Stone Publishing (Five Torches Deep) Just read the last page in FTD Origins. Titled: "BIOESSENTIALISM, RACISM, AND COLONIALISM
• Pelgraine Press (13th Age)  "The thing about SWGs (Straight White Guys) is that they make great punching bags. " Still need a citation for this but for now its going red. Also published #Feminism
• Kobold Press Guide to game mastering has a whole section telling the reader to "check your privilege"
• The Design Mechanism ( Released a video stating if you voted for a certain political candidate you're not welcome to buy their game. They since deleted the video 
• Monte Cook Games (Numenera) Partners with Shanna Germain and wrote consent in gaming. Anything with Germain's fingers on it is automatically red
• Arcanist Press Only make diversity products, they based their company on being woke
• Gencon A convention, but honorary assholes none the less. They go a bit ban happy, see Jeremy Hambley and the whole thing with "nu-tsr" despite being short lived.
• Coyote & Crow Bunch of actual racists making a racist game. Screeching about colonization and the whole premise of their game is what if white people didn't exist. One of the worst offenders on this list.
• Magpie Games (Avatar Legends RPG) Way into BLM and "Diversity and Inclusion, also hired Daniel Kwan from Asians Represent Youtube channel. They tried to get Oriental Adventures banned from one bookshelf and other storefronts. Markets their game as non western storytelling.
• Old Skull Publishing  Diogo Nogueira who threatened to punch Venger at a the next con he sees him at, also wanted to to get companies to put "game not for fascists" on the cover of every title.
• Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Age of Sigmar, Warhammer Fantasy) IP owners and miniature producers since we are including those for right now. Honorary Dingdong, crimes include general shittyness, going after people for copyright for material they themselves have stolen or "borrowed" and other scummy business practices. They drank the kool-aid a while ago and have actually attacked fans of the franchise for wrongthink. Cool universe, but don't give em money if you dont have to. Chinacast, 3d printing, etc
  
• Wizkids Puts the pronouns of their models on the boxes now, also partnered with hasbro
• Arc Knight Publishing (Delta Green) Delta Green Handlers guide has a whole section on Trump. They are actually more hostile to Trump than actual historical nazis.
• Roll20 (Virtual Tabletop) Strongly supports, BLM and woke titles, participates in fund raisers for those causes. Also refused to sponser a live play by taking20, dawnforged cast and a few others because they "didn't need any more straight white guys." Not sponsering the video isn't the problem here, it's their reason is racist as fuck

This is so far the most up to date version of the list.

Quote from: Ocule on August 30, 2021, 11:48:02 AM

Updated List

Green
Not Woke or Indifferent

• RPG Pundit (Lion and Dragon, Arrows of Indra, Dark Albion): Historical fiction and stays true to the mindset of the times. See his YT channel. Might create a new category here for anti sjw.
• Troll Lord Games (Castles and Crusades/Siege Engine) Supports vets with big discounts, generally stays apolitical.
• Studio Agate/Shadows of Esteren No indication of any affiliation. Decent game, takes forever to fill kickstarters though.
• Precis Intermedia: "Makers of the Genre Diversion System and a publisher of any other games. Never seen anything woke from them, and the owner seems like a really cool, level-headed guy"
• Autarch/ACKS Definitely not woke
• Necrotic Gnome (Old School Essentials) Makes a point to be apolitical
• Basic Fantasy Also keeps politics separate from products
• OSRIC Hasn't given any indication of getting political
• Whitebox: FMAG No indication of getting poltical
• Goblinoid Games (Labyrinth Lord) No indication of getting political
• Frog God Games/Swords and Wizardry Did a bit of pandering with an all female printing of Swords and Wizardry, suspect but worth noting.
• Post Mortem Studios (Tales of Gor, Punk RPG, Grimdark) Visit the storefront, can't imagine them giving a shit what people think
• Palladium Does what they have always done, make gonzo worlds
• North Wind Adventures (Astonishing Swordsman and Sorcerers of Hyperborea) Hired some woke artist, but otherwise seems faithful to AD&D. Doesnt Appear to get preachy
• Kort'thalis Publishing/Venger Satanis (Alpha Blue, Cha'alt) Anti SJW
• Peterson Games (Cthulhu Mythos among others) They tried to cancel him for thinking that men shouldn't compete in women's sports. Seems like a genuinely nice dude
• Riot Minds (Trudvang, Lex Occultum) Does not appear to be political, you can get their proprietary system or the D&D adaptation or adopt the setting to your own system. It's a beautiful setting with outstanding artwork.
• Lamentations of the Flame Princess Edgelords, cannot be contained. They were on the receiving end of the cancel mob and twiterati for a while.
• For Gold and Glory Nothing to suggest going woke, seems indifferent.
• Immersive Ink (Delving Deeper) Indifferent
• Sine Nomine (Scarlet Heroes, Stars Without Number Indifferent
• Symbaroum Haven't seen anything political from them
• Schwalb Entertainment (Shadow of the Demon Lord) They bent the knee a while back and put a pro BLM message though it has been taken down since, so they get to be green for now. More information is needed
• Columbia Games (Harnworld, Harnmaster, Block War Games) Aims for historical realism based on the medieval period. They don't appear to be political at all and just trying to make a historical experience.

Yellow
Sort of Woke or Panders- If it's there it's subtle. They "bend the knee" to the grifters, or maybe they themselves are woke

• Catalyst Game Labs (Shadowrun) Giving them the benefit of the doubt for now unless someone shows otherwise but this was posted last year https://www.catalystgamelabs.com/2020/06/11/catalyst-game-labs-statement-on-social-justice/
• Fantasy Flight Games Hard to decide if it belongs here or just in the woke catagory. They gender and race swap characters, ban words that might be considered offensive like Banzai, and generally allow the woke mob to take over the forums and run away with their trade dress etc. They dont constantly harass potential customers and tell them how much they hate em at least.
• Talsorian Games Mixed Bag imo, they lean really heavily into IDIC (Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations) it's on their page rules. Lots of pronouns in bios, They havn't gone full crazy just yet
• Goodman Games - Tried to protect itself by distancing itself from Judges Guild and donating to ADL. Other than that can't really find anything else on them. Praised BLM for a time
• Chaosium Changed in world lore to be more for Runequest, some censorship and bending to BLM/GLBT+ demands
• Monte Cook Games Poor Monte, used to make some good stuff. Tends to push things like consent forms in gaming, some stuff on mental illness but otherwise panders
• Mongoose Games Had a don't be a dick section in paranoia, recommended by poster. Open for debate whether yellow or green
• Modiphious Publishes some woke products, but doesn't seem to only publish woke products
• Pinnacle Entertainment (Savage Worlds/Deadlands) Removed the CSA from Deadlands and removed a lot of the old art that might offend anyone particuarly anything with partial nudity or more risque outfits. Also made sure there weren't "too many white guys" in their core rulebook. Still pretty solid but they pander or cave to demands occasionally
• Hero Games Hires sensitivity readers
• GURPs/Steve Jackson Games Banned by rpg net for not being woke, though some of the devs might be. Steven Jackson signed onto october surprise, so he did come down with a case of TDS
• Free League Standard "Gaming is for everyone" spiel, could go either way. Published forbidden lands, which slips in some anti woke themes. Yellow leaning Green
• Atlas Games (Ars Magica) President of Atlas-Games has total TDS and is another blue checkmark. Unsure of how badly it shows in there games. For now its yellow bordering on red.
• Edge Studios Acquired all of FFG rpg line, they toe the standard line and employ quite a few hardcore sjws
• Reaper Miniatures Had some drama about an employee getting into a fight with some antifa sympathizer. Read this and make up your own mind https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/6txuht/reaper_miniatures_may_have_fired_a_guy_for_shit/
• Gallant Knight Games (Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells, the Tiny RPGs Partnered with Diogo Nogueira. Moved here from red but has a strong relationship with Diogo as far as I know but I can't find examples of them actually doing anything wrong other than that.
• Heroforge Miniatures They pander hard, are not overt about it but i'm sure they will do something stupid soon.

Red
Woke,These people probably despise you if you don't fall in line and they aren't afraid to let you know it.

• Wizards of the Coast - Harasses customers, diversity checkboxes, hires based on race, pedo judges, bans anyone they disagree with on social issues from all sanctioned events. True dumpster fire.
• Paizo- Has whole pages in their books telling you how you must play there game and be inclusive. Harasses customers, aggressively moderates forums against anyone to the right of stalin, Retconned Golarion lore to be more inclusive, starfinder even had an adventure where you needed to get a professor at a university to apologize for being insensitive despite being factually correct. No lie, first adventure path. Another AP for Pathfinder showed all men as incompetent, read like a tumblr blog and all the women were super powerful and if you didnt bring the black, lesbian, disabled ranger with you then you automatically lost. Iron Gods or something like that.
• Zweihander/Grim and Perilous Games- Freakin Dumpster Fire,
• Cubicle 7 - Not as bad as the others on this list, they're definitely woke. Their art design generally shows it, having extremely odd choices for portraits in warhammer fantasy line and ignoring in world cultural practices like female dwarven artisans arent generally a thing. Ticks diversity checkboxes, pronouns in the bio. I havn't seen them harassing customers yet so that's a win.
• Renegade Game Studios/Vampire the Masquerade 5e Not sure where to start with these guys, woke in their products and openly hate you
• Onyx Path Publishing/Chronicles of Darkness
• New White Wolf Publishing Not sure if they're still around, see Mophidious and Onyx Path they're all sister companies.
• Green Ronin- Chris Pramas is a full-on member of ANTIFA, has a vitriolic hatred for white people, and his products reflect this. Publishes "Blue Rose", the gay RPG
• Monkey House Games/Jeff Dee: Enormous asshole and activist. If you are republican or conservative or Christian this hates you.
• Evil Hat Productions- Another poster child for woke gaming. Embedded in everything from their forums, to their products and staff. Openly tells you if you don't like their politics don't buy their games. Too easy
• Ockult Ortmastare Games/Stockholm Cartell (Mork Borg) - Uses OGL to shoot down authors they disagree with. Supports BLM and bailing out rioters
• Sigil Stone Publishing (Five Torches Deep) Just read the last page in FTD Origins. Titled: "BIOESSENTIALISM, RACISM, AND COLONIALISM
• Pelgraine Press (13th Age)  "The thing about SWGs (Straight White Guys) is that they make great punching bags. " Still need a citation for this but for now its going red. Also published #Feminism
• Kobold Press Guide to game mastering has a whole section telling the reader to "check your privilege"
• The Design Mechanism ( Released a video stating if you voted for a certain political candidate you're not welcome to buy their game. They since deleted the video 
• Monte Cook Games (Numenera) Partners with Shanna Germain and wrote consent in gaming. Anything with Germain's fingers on it is automatically red
• Arcanist Press Only make diversity products, they based their company on being woke
• Gencon A convention, but honorary assholes none the less. They go a bit ban happy, see Jeremy Hambley and the whole thing with "nu-tsr" despite being short lived.
• Coyote & Crow Bunch of actual racists making a racist game. Screeching about colonization and the whole premise of their game is what if white people didn't exist. One of the worst offenders on this list.
• Magpie Games (Avatar Legends RPG) Way into BLM and "Diversity and Inclusion, also hired Daniel Kwan from Asians Represent Youtube channel. They tried to get Oriental Adventures banned from one bookshelf and other storefronts. Markets their game as non western storytelling.
• Old Skull Publishing  Diogo Nogueira who threatened to punch Venger at a the next con he sees him at, also wanted to to get companies to put "game not for fascists" on the cover of every title.
• Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Age of Sigmar, Warhammer Fantasy) IP owners and miniature producers since we are including those for right now. Honorary Dingdong, crimes include general shittyness, going after people for copyright for material they themselves have stolen or "borrowed" and other scummy business practices. They drank the kool-aid a while ago and have actually attacked fans of the franchise for wrongthink. Cool universe, but don't give em money if you dont have to. Chinacast, 3d printing, etc
  
• Wizkids Puts the pronouns of their models on the boxes now, also partnered with hasbro
• Arc Knight Publishing (Delta Green) Delta Green Handlers guide has a whole section on Trump. They are actually more hostile to Trump than actual historical nazis.

This is so far the most up to date version of the list.

Just a heads up. Monty Cook is on both the Yellow and Red lists. Is this intentional? They seem VERY RED to me.

Quote from: Godsmonkey on August 30, 2021, 02:53:04 PM

Quote from: Ocule on August 30, 2021, 11:48:02 AM

Updated List

Green
Not Woke or Indifferent

• RPG Pundit (Lion and Dragon, Arrows of Indra, Dark Albion): Historical fiction and stays true to the mindset of the times. See his YT channel. Might create a new category here for anti sjw.
• Troll Lord Games (Castles and Crusades/Siege Engine) Supports vets with big discounts, generally stays apolitical.
• Studio Agate/Shadows of Esteren No indication of any affiliation. Decent game, takes forever to fill kickstarters though.
• Precis Intermedia: "Makers of the Genre Diversion System and a publisher of any other games. Never seen anything woke from them, and the owner seems like a really cool, level-headed guy"
• Autarch/ACKS Definitely not woke
• Necrotic Gnome (Old School Essentials) Makes a point to be apolitical
• Basic Fantasy Also keeps politics separate from products
• OSRIC Hasn't given any indication of getting political
• Whitebox: FMAG No indication of getting poltical
• Goblinoid Games (Labyrinth Lord) No indication of getting political
• Frog God Games/Swords and Wizardry Did a bit of pandering with an all female printing of Swords and Wizardry, suspect but worth noting.
• Post Mortem Studios (Tales of Gor, Punk RPG, Grimdark) Visit the storefront, can't imagine them giving a shit what people think
• Palladium Does what they have always done, make gonzo worlds
• North Wind Adventures (Astonishing Swordsman and Sorcerers of Hyperborea) Hired some woke artist, but otherwise seems faithful to AD&D. Doesnt Appear to get preachy
• Kort'thalis Publishing/Venger Satanis (Alpha Blue, Cha'alt) Anti SJW
• Peterson Games (Cthulhu Mythos among others) They tried to cancel him for thinking that men shouldn't compete in women's sports. Seems like a genuinely nice dude
• Riot Minds (Trudvang, Lex Occultum) Does not appear to be political, you can get their proprietary system or the D&D adaptation or adopt the setting to your own system. It's a beautiful setting with outstanding artwork.
• Lamentations of the Flame Princess Edgelords, cannot be contained. They were on the receiving end of the cancel mob and twiterati for a while.
• For Gold and Glory Nothing to suggest going woke, seems indifferent.
• Immersive Ink (Delving Deeper) Indifferent
• Sine Nomine (Scarlet Heroes, Stars Without Number Indifferent
• Symbaroum Haven't seen anything political from them
• Schwalb Entertainment (Shadow of the Demon Lord) They bent the knee a while back and put a pro BLM message though it has been taken down since, so they get to be green for now. More information is needed
• Columbia Games (Harnworld, Harnmaster, Block War Games) Aims for historical realism based on the medieval period. They don't appear to be political at all and just trying to make a historical experience.

Yellow
Sort of Woke or Panders- If it's there it's subtle. They "bend the knee" to the grifters, or maybe they themselves are woke

• Catalyst Game Labs (Shadowrun) Giving them the benefit of the doubt for now unless someone shows otherwise but this was posted last year https://www.catalystgamelabs.com/2020/06/11/catalyst-game-labs-statement-on-social-justice/
• Fantasy Flight Games Hard to decide if it belongs here or just in the woke catagory. They gender and race swap characters, ban words that might be considered offensive like Banzai, and generally allow the woke mob to take over the forums and run away with their trade dress etc. They dont constantly harass potential customers and tell them how much they hate em at least.
• Talsorian Games Mixed Bag imo, they lean really heavily into IDIC (Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations) it's on their page rules. Lots of pronouns in bios, They havn't gone full crazy just yet
• Goodman Games - Tried to protect itself by distancing itself from Judges Guild and donating to ADL. Other than that can't really find anything else on them. Praised BLM for a time
• Chaosium Changed in world lore to be more for Runequest, some censorship and bending to BLM/GLBT+ demands
• Monte Cook Games Poor Monte, used to make some good stuff. Tends to push things like consent forms in gaming, some stuff on mental illness but otherwise panders
• Mongoose Games Had a don't be a dick section in paranoia, recommended by poster. Open for debate whether yellow or green
• Modiphious Publishes some woke products, but doesn't seem to only publish woke products
• Pinnacle Entertainment (Savage Worlds/Deadlands) Removed the CSA from Deadlands and removed a lot of the old art that might offend anyone particuarly anything with partial nudity or more risque outfits. Also made sure there weren't "too many white guys" in their core rulebook. Still pretty solid but they pander or cave to demands occasionally
• Hero Games Hires sensitivity readers
• GURPs/Steve Jackson Games Banned by rpg net for not being woke, though some of the devs might be. Steven Jackson signed onto october surprise, so he did come down with a case of TDS
• Free League Standard "Gaming is for everyone" spiel, could go either way. Published forbidden lands, which slips in some anti woke themes. Yellow leaning Green
• Atlas Games (Ars Magica) President of Atlas-Games has total TDS and is another blue checkmark. Unsure of how badly it shows in there games. For now its yellow bordering on red.
• Edge Studios Acquired all of FFG rpg line, they toe the standard line and employ quite a few hardcore sjws
• Reaper Miniatures Had some drama about an employee getting into a fight with some antifa sympathizer. Read this and make up your own mind https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/6txuht/reaper_miniatures_may_have_fired_a_guy_for_shit/
• Gallant Knight Games (Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells, the Tiny RPGs Partnered with Diogo Nogueira. Moved here from red but has a strong relationship with Diogo as far as I know but I can't find examples of them actually doing anything wrong other than that.
• Heroforge Miniatures They pander hard, are not overt about it but i'm sure they will do something stupid soon.

Red
Woke,These people probably despise you if you don't fall in line and they aren't afraid to let you know it.

• Wizards of the Coast - Harasses customers, diversity checkboxes, hires based on race, pedo judges, bans anyone they disagree with on social issues from all sanctioned events. True dumpster fire.
• Paizo- Has whole pages in their books telling you how you must play there game and be inclusive. Harasses customers, aggressively moderates forums against anyone to the right of stalin, Retconned Golarion lore to be more inclusive, starfinder even had an adventure where you needed to get a professor at a university to apologize for being insensitive despite being factually correct. No lie, first adventure path. Another AP for Pathfinder showed all men as incompetent, read like a tumblr blog and all the women were super powerful and if you didnt bring the black, lesbian, disabled ranger with you then you automatically lost. Iron Gods or something like that.
• Zweihander/Grim and Perilous Games- Freakin Dumpster Fire,
• Cubicle 7 - Not as bad as the others on this list, they're definitely woke. Their art design generally shows it, having extremely odd choices for portraits in warhammer fantasy line and ignoring in world cultural practices like female dwarven artisans arent generally a thing. Ticks diversity checkboxes, pronouns in the bio. I havn't seen them harassing customers yet so that's a win.
• Renegade Game Studios/Vampire the Masquerade 5e Not sure where to start with these guys, woke in their products and openly hate you
• Onyx Path Publishing/Chronicles of Darkness
• New White Wolf Publishing Not sure if they're still around, see Mophidious and Onyx Path they're all sister companies.
• Green Ronin- Chris Pramas is a full-on member of ANTIFA, has a vitriolic hatred for white people, and his products reflect this. Publishes "Blue Rose", the gay RPG
• Monkey House Games/Jeff Dee: Enormous asshole and activist. If you are republican or conservative or Christian this hates you.
• Evil Hat Productions- Another poster child for woke gaming. Embedded in everything from their forums, to their products and staff. Openly tells you if you don't like their politics don't buy their games. Too easy
• Ockult Ortmastare Games/Stockholm Cartell (Mork Borg) - Uses OGL to shoot down authors they disagree with. Supports BLM and bailing out rioters
• Sigil Stone Publishing (Five Torches Deep) Just read the last page in FTD Origins. Titled: "BIOESSENTIALISM, RACISM, AND COLONIALISM
• Pelgraine Press (13th Age)  "The thing about SWGs (Straight White Guys) is that they make great punching bags. " Still need a citation for this but for now its going red. Also published #Feminism
• Kobold Press Guide to game mastering has a whole section telling the reader to "check your privilege"
• The Design Mechanism ( Released a video stating if you voted for a certain political candidate you're not welcome to buy their game. They since deleted the video 
• Monte Cook Games (Numenera) Partners with Shanna Germain and wrote consent in gaming. Anything with Germain's fingers on it is automatically red
• Arcanist Press Only make diversity products, they based their company on being woke
• Gencon A convention, but honorary assholes none the less. They go a bit ban happy, see Jeremy Hambley and the whole thing with "nu-tsr" despite being short lived.
• Coyote & Crow Bunch of actual racists making a racist game. Screeching about colonization and the whole premise of their game is what if white people didn't exist. One of the worst offenders on this list.
• Magpie Games (Avatar Legends RPG) Way into BLM and "Diversity and Inclusion, also hired Daniel Kwan from Asians Represent Youtube channel. They tried to get Oriental Adventures banned from one bookshelf and other storefronts. Markets their game as non western storytelling.
• Old Skull Publishing  Diogo Nogueira who threatened to punch Venger at a the next con he sees him at, also wanted to to get companies to put "game not for fascists" on the cover of every title.
• Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Age of Sigmar, Warhammer Fantasy) IP owners and miniature producers since we are including those for right now. Honorary Dingdong, crimes include general shittyness, going after people for copyright for material they themselves have stolen or "borrowed" and other scummy business practices. They drank the kool-aid a while ago and have actually attacked fans of the franchise for wrongthink. Cool universe, but don't give em money if you dont have to. Chinacast, 3d printing, etc
  
• Wizkids Puts the pronouns of their models on the boxes now, also partnered with hasbro
• Arc Knight Publishing (Delta Green) Delta Green Handlers guide has a whole section on Trump. They are actually more hostile to Trump than actual historical nazis.

This is so far the most up to date version of the list.

Just a heads up. Monty Cook is on both the Yellow and Red lists. Is this intentional? They seem VERY RED to me.

Nice catch, no they're red. I'll remove from yellow

I get that the political video was cringe, but given that Lawrence Whitaker (Loz) posts here on theRPGsite (and not just to advertise, but to engage with customers), I'm not sure The Design Mechanism belongs in the red. There are far worse offenders listed in the yellow.

It's unfortunate that they cringeposted, but they take their craft very seriously, and seem like normal, friendly people. I may be out of the loop, but that's been my impression, judging from podcasts and interviews (and the fact that Loz is happy to post here), and is one of the reasons I picked up Mythras.

Quote from: WayneThePayne on August 30, 2021, 04:29:25 PM
I get that the political video was cringe, but given that Lawrence Whitaker (Loz) posts here on theRPGsite (and not just to advertise, but to engage with customers), I'm not sure The Design Mechanism belongs in the red. There are far worse offenders listed in the yellow.

It's unfortunate that they cringeposted, but they take their craft very seriously, and seem like normal, friendly people. I may be out of the loop, but that's been my impression, judging from podcasts and interviews (and the fact that Loz is happy to post here), and is one of the reasons I picked up Mythras.

   I can accept them removing the video to be honest, and I do not get a whiff of the SJW vibe from their books.  I personally am not looking to burn people down for ideas about who should vote for who.  I do think those are things we can keep to ourselves, and in their favor, they do not seem to sacrifice quality of their books for the sake of some trumpeted political position.   Reality is I do not ask for much more than that, do not pronounce hate for me because of who I did or did not vote for (which is insane, I have friends who have never voted as I have in the past) and do not shoehorn some bullshit into your materials to make sure everyone knows you are shining brightly with the "correct" political stances.     That is really about all I ask to not be removed from a buying option for me.   

   I agree with you though, I have never seen what I would call overt politics in their books (and honestly, unless the creators/authors are really politically toxic, I dont much give a fuck who they vote for) and I do like their stuff (at least what of it I have).

There are still a few I could think of ...

Green

Bastionland Press (Into the Odd/Electric Bastionland): Chris McDowal seems to keep his politicts to himself

Questing Beast Games (Maze Rats/Knave): He and his creative output stay clear of politics afaik

False Machine (veins of the earth/Deep carbon observatory/maze of the blue medusa): Patrick Stuart worked with Zak S before but stays away from   politics

Hydra Cooperative (Slumbering Ursine Dunes/Misty Isles of the Eld): Some of their creators like Chris Kutalik are Woke DSA members+antifa supporters but I can't remember noticing in their work.

Yellow

Ulisses (The Dark Eye/ german Pathfinder): Since it was mentioned during the show. They are clearly progressive and have started changing the 30 y.o. setting of The Dark Eye (made important leaders female, gave formerly stereotypical jungle tribes a Wakanda-like backstory etc.). In typical german fashion they lag a couple of years behind the political developements in the US though.

A Thousand Thousand Islands (eponymous zine series): Zedeck Siew has a big chip on his shoulder about colonialism in Southeast Asia and seems not too fond of westerners in general. His work is focuses on his own culture so I'd maybe give it a pass.

Quote from: SvebianFeels on August 30, 2021, 06:39:07 PM
There are still a few I could think of ...

Green

Bastionland Press (Into the Odd/Electric Bastionland): Chris McDowal seems to keep his politicts to himself

Questing Beast Games (Maze Rats/Knave): He and his creative output stay clear of politics afaik

False Machine (veins of the earth/Deep carbon observatory/maze of the blue medusa): Patrick Stuart worked with Zak S before but stays away from   politics

Hydra Cooperative (Slumbering Ursine Dunes/Misty Isles of the Eld): Some of their creators like Chris Kutalik are Woke DSA members+antifa supporters but I can't remember noticing in their work.

Yellow

Ulisses (The Dark Eye/ german Pathfinder): Since it was mentioned during the show. They are clearly progressive and have started changing the 30 y.o. setting of The Dark Eye (made important leaders female, gave formerly stereotypical jungle tribes a Wakanda-like backstory etc.). In typical german fashion they lag a couple of years behind the political developements in the US though.

A Thousand Thousand Islands (eponymous zine series): Zedeck Siew has a big chip on his shoulder about colonialism in Southeast Asia and seems not too fond of westerners in general. His work is focuses on his own culture so I'd maybe give it a pass.

The Ulisses Spiel USA side that is putting out Torg Eternity (and that shit the bed with Wrath & Glory before it went to C7) seems to pride itself on being very progressive, much more so than the German side.

Quote from: HappyDaze on August 30, 2021, 06:46:40 PM

Quote from: SvebianFeels on August 30, 2021, 06:39:07 PM
There are still a few I could think of ...

Green

Bastionland Press (Into the Odd/Electric Bastionland): Chris McDowal seems to keep his politicts to himself

Questing Beast Games (Maze Rats/Knave): He and his creative output stay clear of politics afaik

False Machine (veins of the earth/Deep carbon observatory/maze of the blue medusa): Patrick Stuart worked with Zak S before but stays away from   politics

Hydra Cooperative (Slumbering Ursine Dunes/Misty Isles of the Eld): Some of their creators like Chris Kutalik are Woke DSA members+antifa supporters but I can't remember noticing in their work.

Yellow

Ulisses (The Dark Eye/ german Pathfinder): Since it was mentioned during the show. They are clearly progressive and have started changing the 30 y.o. setting of The Dark Eye (made important leaders female, gave formerly stereotypical jungle tribes a Wakanda-like backstory etc.). In typical german fashion they lag a couple of years behind the political developements in the US though.

A Thousand Thousand Islands (eponymous zine series): Zedeck Siew has a big chip on his shoulder about colonialism in Southeast Asia and seems not too fond of westerners in general. His work is focuses on his own culture so I'd maybe give it a pass.

The Ulisses Spiel USA side that is putting out Torg Eternity (and that shit the bed with Fortune & Glory before it went to C7) seems to pride itself on being very progressive, much more so than the German side.

  I have to honestly say i will boycott them just for Fortune and Glory.  Never do i think I have been so disappointed in a game as that shitbox.   I do not care what their politics are, if that was the best they could do with that license, they must really suck.

Quote from: oggsmash on August 30, 2021, 06:54:22 PM

Quote from: HappyDaze on August 30, 2021, 06:46:40 PM

Quote from: SvebianFeels on August 30, 2021, 06:39:07 PM
There are still a few I could think of ...

Green

Bastionland Press (Into the Odd/Electric Bastionland): Chris McDowal seems to keep his politicts to himself

Questing Beast Games (Maze Rats/Knave): He and his creative output stay clear of politics afaik

False Machine (veins of the earth/Deep carbon observatory/maze of the blue medusa): Patrick Stuart worked with Zak S before but stays away from   politics

Hydra Cooperative (Slumbering Ursine Dunes/Misty Isles of the Eld): Some of their creators like Chris Kutalik are Woke DSA members+antifa supporters but I can't remember noticing in their work.

Yellow

Ulisses (The Dark Eye/ german Pathfinder): Since it was mentioned during the show. They are clearly progressive and have started changing the 30 y.o. setting of The Dark Eye (made important leaders female, gave formerly stereotypical jungle tribes a Wakanda-like backstory etc.). In typical german fashion they lag a couple of years behind the political developements in the US though.

A Thousand Thousand Islands (eponymous zine series): Zedeck Siew has a big chip on his shoulder about colonialism in Southeast Asia and seems not too fond of westerners in general. His work is focuses on his own culture so I'd maybe give it a pass.

The Ulisses Spiel USA side that is putting out Torg Eternity (and that shit the bed with Fortune & Glory before it went to C7) seems to pride itself on being very progressive, much more so than the German side.

  I have to honestly say i will boycott them just for Fortune and Glory.  Never do i think I have been so disappointed in a game as that shitbox.   I do not care what their politics are, if that was the best they could do with that license, they must really suck.

Um...my bad, that should have been Wrath and Glory (WH40K RPG).

Fortune & Glory is a board game by...something frog games. I hate the game with a passion because it includes two things that should never co-occur in a board game: long player turns (10 minutes per player, 4-6 players) AND things that can make you lose a turn (sometimes repeatedly). This means you might go well over an hour without actually getting to play.

Quote from: HappyDaze on August 30, 2021, 07:03:40 PM

Quote from: oggsmash on August 30, 2021, 06:54:22 PM

Quote from: HappyDaze on August 30, 2021, 06:46:40 PM

Quote from: SvebianFeels on August 30, 2021, 06:39:07 PM
There are still a few I could think of ...

Green

Bastionland Press (Into the Odd/Electric Bastionland): Chris McDowal seems to keep his politicts to himself

Questing Beast Games (Maze Rats/Knave): He and his creative output stay clear of politics afaik

False Machine (veins of the earth/Deep carbon observatory/maze of the blue medusa): Patrick Stuart worked with Zak S before but stays away from   politics

Hydra Cooperative (Slumbering Ursine Dunes/Misty Isles of the Eld): Some of their creators like Chris Kutalik are Woke DSA members+antifa supporters but I can't remember noticing in their work.

Yellow

Ulisses (The Dark Eye/ german Pathfinder): Since it was mentioned during the show. They are clearly progressive and have started changing the 30 y.o. setting of The Dark Eye (made important leaders female, gave formerly stereotypical jungle tribes a Wakanda-like backstory etc.). In typical german fashion they lag a couple of years behind the political developements in the US though.

A Thousand Thousand Islands (eponymous zine series): Zedeck Siew has a big chip on his shoulder about colonialism in Southeast Asia and seems not too fond of westerners in general. His work is focuses on his own culture so I'd maybe give it a pass.

The Ulisses Spiel USA side that is putting out Torg Eternity (and that shit the bed with Fortune & Glory before it went to C7) seems to pride itself on being very progressive, much more so than the German side.

  I have to honestly say i will boycott them just for Fortune and Glory.  Never do i think I have been so disappointed in a game as that shitbox.   I do not care what their politics are, if that was the best they could do with that license, they must really suck.

Um...my bad, that should have been Wrath and Glory (WH40K RPG).

Fortune & Glory is a board game by...something frog games. I hate the game with a passion because it includes two things that should never co-occur in a board game: long player turns (10 minutes per player, 4-6 players) AND things that can make you lose a turn (sometimes repeatedly). This means you might go well over an hour without actually getting to play.

  I got the gist, and it was Wrath and Glory i referred to.  I couldnt remember the game name ( I just remember glory, and the publisher) but I knew what you meant. 

Quote from: SvebianFeels on August 30, 2021, 06:39:07 PM

A Thousand Thousand Islands (eponymous zine series): Zedeck Siew has a big chip on his shoulder about colonialism in Southeast Asia and seems not too fond of westerners in general. His work is focuses on his own culture so I'd maybe give it a pass.

He doesn't deserve a pass. His stuff is communist and anti-western. He's engaged in attacks against me on twitter.