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[List] TTRPG Guide to Woke Companies

Started by Ocule, August 03, 2021, 12:26:41 PM

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Gagarth

Gay Spaceship games 

To play Thirsty Sword Lesbians, you must:
Support racial liberation, intersectional feminism, and queer liberation
Respect transgender people, nonbinary people, intersex people, and
women
Respect racialized people; respect Black, Indigenous, mixed-race
people, and other people of color
Respect sex workers
Respect disabled people
Respect immigrants
Respect lesbians and other people with queer sexualities
Respect people experiencing poverty or homelessness
Respect neurodivergent people, such as those on the autism spectrum
Respect fat people and people of all body types
Not demand that anyone educate you about their marginalizations
If you don't agree, fix your heart before sharing a table with other people
'Don't join us. Work hard, get good degrees, join the Establishment and serve our cause from within.' Harry Pollitt - Communist Party GB

"Don't worry about the election, Trump's not gonna win. I made f*cking sure of that!" Eric Coomer -  Dominion Voting Systems Officer of Strategy and Security

Ghostmaker

Doesn't ENWorld/ENPublishing have kind of a shit rep anyways for playing games with third party content creators, back in the halcyon days of open source d20? I remember reading about that somewhere.

Godsmonkey

Quote from: Gagarth on September 01, 2021, 04:53:32 AM
Gay Spaceship games 

To play Thirsty Sword Lesbians, you must:
Support racial liberation, intersectional feminism, and queer liberation
Respect transgender people, nonbinary people, intersex people, and
women
Respect racialized people; respect Black, Indigenous, mixed-race
people, and other people of color
Respect sex workers
Respect disabled people
Respect immigrants
Respect lesbians and other people with queer sexualities
Respect people experiencing poverty or homelessness
Respect neurodivergent people, such as those on the autism spectrum
Respect fat people and people of all body types
Not demand that anyone educate you about their marginalizations
If you don't agree, fix your heart before sharing a table with other people

By default, I respect all people until the give me reason not to.

I don't respect a game maker like Sword Thirsty Lesbians' who are pandering to a demographic to make a buck and gain virtue points.

Gagarth

#483
Brittannia Gems should be red

"Brittannia Game Designs and the designers of C&S 5th Edition celebrate diversity among gamers and in our games. In this edition of the classic medieval fantasy game we have drawn on modern [i.e. Intersectional Marxist] research to present the Middle Ages as they really were; diverse and rich in cultural influences and visitors from outside Europe. If this does not reflect your vision of the Middle Ages, this is not the game for you."


Land of the Rising sun for 5e C & S

"Brittannia Game Designs and the designers of Land of the Rising Sun and C&S 5th Edition celebrate diversity  among gamers and in our games. In this edition of the  classic medieval fantasy game we encourage you to  break away from the bland white, male Middle Ages of  yesteryear and make your game as rich and varied as the  Middle Ages really were. If this does not reflect your vision of the Middle Ages,  this is not the game for you"


https://www.therpgsite.com/pen-paper-roleplaying-games-rpgs-discussion/chivalry-and-sorcery-41163/
'Don't join us. Work hard, get good degrees, join the Establishment and serve our cause from within.' Harry Pollitt - Communist Party GB

"Don't worry about the election, Trump's not gonna win. I made f*cking sure of that!" Eric Coomer -  Dominion Voting Systems Officer of Strategy and Security

Godsmonkey

Quote from: Gagarth on September 01, 2021, 08:19:58 AM
Brittannia Gems should be red

"Brittannia Game Designs and the designers of C&S 5th Edition celebrate diversity among gamers and in our games. In this edition of the classic medieval fantasy game we have drawn on modern [i.e. Intersectional Marxist] research to present the Middle Ages as they really were; diverse and rich in cultural influences and visitors from outside Europe. If this does not reflect your vision of the Middle Ages, this is not the game for you."

https://www.therpgsite.com/pen-paper-roleplaying-games-rpgs-discussion/chivalry-and-sorcery-41163/

If by rich and diverse, they mean there were a few outliers, then OK.

Somehow I don't get that impression.

Gagarth

#485
Quote from: Godsmonkey on September 01, 2021, 08:27:24 AM
Quote from: Gagarth on September 01, 2021, 08:19:58 AM
Brittannia Gems should be red

"Brittannia Game Designs and the designers of C&S 5th Edition celebrate diversity among gamers and in our games. In this edition of the classic medieval fantasy game we have drawn on modern [i.e. Intersectional Marxist] research to present the Middle Ages as they really were; diverse and rich in cultural influences and visitors from outside Europe. If this does not reflect your vision of the Middle Ages, this is not the game for you."

https://www.therpgsite.com/pen-paper-roleplaying-games-rpgs-discussion/chivalry-and-sorcery-41163/

If by rich and diverse, they mean there were a few outliers, then OK.

Somehow I don't get that impression.


It means exactly the same as the interpretation of history from other Intersectional Marxist entertainment producers e.g. Anne Boleyn was a black lesbian and half the Yeomen of the Guard were black. But as usual with the doublethink from this crowd full diversity is only required when it is a European setting being portrayed as the artwork of the C & S 5e Land of the Rising Sun isn't diverse.  Something I have also noticed with Intersectional Marxist products is that when the European attitudes of a particular time run contrary to modern perspectives it gets called out and vilified yet with other cultures it will go without remark.


'Don't join us. Work hard, get good degrees, join the Establishment and serve our cause from within.' Harry Pollitt - Communist Party GB

"Don't worry about the election, Trump's not gonna win. I made f*cking sure of that!" Eric Coomer -  Dominion Voting Systems Officer of Strategy and Security

Slambo

Quote from: Ocule on August 30, 2021, 03:01:30 PM
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

You also have kobold press in green and red

Ocule

Quote from: Gagarth on September 01, 2021, 04:53:32 AM
Gay Spaceship games 

To play Thirsty Sword Lesbians, you must:
Support racial liberation, intersectional feminism, and queer liberation
Respect transgender people, nonbinary people, intersex people, and
women
Respect racialized people; respect Black, Indigenous, mixed-race
people, and other people of color
Respect sex workers
Respect disabled people
Respect immigrants
Respect lesbians and other people with queer sexualities
Respect people experiencing poverty or homelessness
Respect neurodivergent people, such as those on the autism spectrum
Respect fat people and people of all body types
Not demand that anyone educate you about their marginalizations
If you don't agree, fix your heart before sharing a table with other people

Thought it wast just evil hat with thirsty sword dykes, but I see who actually wrote it so they get the red too.

Removed Kobold press so they are only under red now.

Also if anyone has any more stories about atlas games, I know they mentioned it on inappropriate characters that it was worse than I had initially gave it credit for.
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#488
Arion Games, producers of Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2e and Malestrom suggested for Green - no SJW posturing I'm aware of. They seem pretty happy playing with the 80s AFF 1e source material with all its "potential issues".

Iron Crown Enterprises, Rolemaster and HARP, again suggesting Green, no SJW posturing I'm aware of. Eight years and still waiting for Rolemaster Unified, which I guess is how we got this far in the thread without their getting a mention (unless I missed it).


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Quote from: Marchand on September 01, 2021, 11:30:33 AM
Iron Crown Enterprises, Rolemaster and HARP, again suggesting Green, no SJW posturing I'm aware of. Eight years and still waiting for Rolemaster Unified, which I guess is how we got this far in the thread without their getting a mention (unless I missed it).

   I asked about ICE earlier, but since none of those who pay attention to them have found anything, probably safely Green.

Gagarth

A future entry to the Black list

Into the Mother Lands RPG.  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cypheroftyr/into-the-mother-lands-rpg

QuoteMother Lands is a tabletop role-playing game free of slavery and colonialism

Quote
Polygon sat down with Tanya DePass, the creator of the new setting, and lead designer B. Dave Walters to learn more. They explained that the germ of the idea originated in the historical record.
"We went back to the African Emperor Mansa Musa," Walters said, referring to the leader of the Mali Empire, an Islamic West African state which Musa I ruled during the 14th century. "He was arguably the wealthiest man in history, who really existed and who sent a fleet to the New World. [...] For our story, this fleet departed and, through a mechanism that is yet to be revealed within the narrative, were transported to another planet."

Mansa Musa was the African ruler of the Mali Empire in the 14th century. When when he took a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 he reportedly brought a procession of 60,000 men and 12,000 slaves.



'Don't join us. Work hard, get good degrees, join the Establishment and serve our cause from within.' Harry Pollitt - Communist Party GB

"Don't worry about the election, Trump's not gonna win. I made f*cking sure of that!" Eric Coomer -  Dominion Voting Systems Officer of Strategy and Security

Gagarth

#491
Modiphius should definitely be on the Black List.  They had a finished product with Conan the Wanderer guide to the kingdoms of the East.  Then  they went full retard and hired a sensitivity reader.  Cutting the fact that on the Lotus Road the main trade is in DRUGS, Martial Arts got renamed to  Unarmed Combat, Exotic and the  removal of Castes were among the many changes made. They even removed two of the writers names, one of them the Line Developer from the credits and replaced them with the name of the Political commissar sensitivity reader.


https://forums.modiphius.com/t/about-the-changes-in-the-new-version-of-conan-the-wanderer/13295/24
'Don't join us. Work hard, get good degrees, join the Establishment and serve our cause from within.' Harry Pollitt - Communist Party GB

"Don't worry about the election, Trump's not gonna win. I made f*cking sure of that!" Eric Coomer -  Dominion Voting Systems Officer of Strategy and Security

RPGPundit

Quote from: Marchand on September 01, 2021, 11:30:33 AM
Arion Games, producers of Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2e and Malestrom suggested for Green - no SJW posturing I'm aware of. They seem pretty happy playing with the 80s AFF 1e source material with all its "potential issues".


I don't know... they never sent me a review copy of Maelstrom Rome. That probably means they're communists!
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Quote from: Armchair Gamer on September 01, 2021, 12:56:07 PM
Quote from: Marchand on September 01, 2021, 11:30:33 AM
Iron Crown Enterprises, Rolemaster and HARP, again suggesting Green, no SJW posturing I'm aware of. Eight years and still waiting for Rolemaster Unified, which I guess is how we got this far in the thread without their getting a mention (unless I missed it).

   I asked about ICE earlier, but since none of those who pay attention to them have found anything, probably safely Green.

ICE is way too  busy printing up tables and charts and 6 page character sheets to worry even a little about modern sensibilities. 

Squidi

Quote from: Gagarth on September 01, 2021, 01:10:34 PM
Modiphius should definitely be on the Black List.  They had a finished product with Conan the Wanderer guide to the kingdoms of the East.  Then  they went full retard and hired a sensitivity reader.  Cutting the fact that on the Lotus Road the main trade is in DRUGS, Martial Arts got renamed to  Unarmed Combat, Exotic and Castes were among the many changes made. They even removed two of the writers names, one of them the Line Developer from the credits and replaced them with the name of the Political commissar sensitivity reader.


https://forums.modiphius.com/t/about-the-changes-in-the-new-version-of-conan-the-wanderer/13295/24
As frustrating as this is, I can't help but laugh at the irony of it all. If there is one thing Conan isn't, it is civilized.

"By Crom, though I've spend considerable time among you civilized peoples, your ways are still beyond my comprehension"