Hiring Mike Mearls shows that a certain larger company has ambitions that require someone who actually knows something about RPGs, unlike WotC.
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@rpgpundit  You misunderstood the WHY and FINANCIALS of the membaberries.  There are three types of customers:

Whales: Money Rich / Time Poor.  They are money rich and time poor.  They typically have families.  They also are Generation X who watched the D&D Cartoon.

Minnows:  Money Poor / Time Poor.  They come in and go to a game.  They do give the more experienced players someone to play against.  They are Millennial / Gen Z.

Dolphins: Money Poor / Time Rich.  They stay in a game but do not have money to spend.  They give the Whales someone to play with who are proficient with the game.

WotC fucked up firing Mearls and then going full tilt cancel piggie and putting in trigger warnings and stating white man bad (kyle brink).  Gen X was raised anti-communist / anti-authoritarian and we do NOT respond to the shit WotC is shoveling.  Hell probably 70% of your site members are Gen X.  Gen X is in the harvest position as a demographic.  They have the most amount of money available to spend and have the time to play.  Gen X is essentially in the DM lane and spend a lot.  I spent over $5K on D&D related materials (books, miniatures, digital, portable framed TV) up to the point where Mearls' was fired.  The minute WotC went race Marxist I stopped spend.

WotC is specifically putting out the membaberries to try to get part of the Gex X wealth they fucked up and chased away by being race marxists.  Membaberries are put into the game all the time but they have no impact on the material, the material still sucks.  Its like putting in a centerfold of a Double D titted bimbo (haha he'll like that one) in a porno mag, but the rest of the magazine is about sucking dick and gay dress code (see end of Playboy for reference).  It won't sell.

IMHO Mearls is an idiot, he should have made something and self-publish, Also fucking Chaosium? I'm not buying ANYTHING from them ever.

Years from now, people will look back upon WOTC's long progression of ridiculous moves in the marketplace; and say, "What a big bowl of fish shit, that was!!!".

Oh, wait.....

People are already saying that.

Maybe Mearls will create some kind of BRP lite, similar to Dragonbane.

Quote from: honeydipperdavid on May 31, 2024, 01:00:29 PM@rpgpundit  You misunderstood the WHY and FINANCIALS of the membaberries.  There are three types of customers:

Whales: Money Rich / Time Poor.  They are money rich and time poor.  They typically have families.  They also are Generation X who watched the D&D Cartoon.

Minnows:  Money Poor / Time Poor.  They come in and go to a game.  They do give the more experienced players someone to play against.  They are Millennial / Gen Z.

Dolphins: Money Poor / Time Rich.  They stay in a game but do not have money to spend.  They give the Whales someone to play with who are proficient with the game.

WotC fucked up firing Mearls and then going full tilt cancel piggie and putting in trigger warnings and stating white man bad (kyle brink).  Gen X was raised anti-communist / anti-authoritarian and we do NOT respond to the shit WotC is shoveling.  Hell probably 70% of your site members are Gen X.  Gen X is in the harvest position as a demographic.  They have the most amount of money available to spend and have the time to play.  Gen X is essentially in the DM lane and spend a lot.  I spent over $5K on D&D related materials (books, miniatures, digital, portable framed TV) up to the point where Mearls' was fired.  The minute WotC went race Marxist I stopped spend.

WotC is specifically putting out the membaberries to try to get part of the Gex X wealth they fucked up and chased away by being race marxists.  Membaberries are put into the game all the time but they have no impact on the material, the material still sucks.  Its like putting in a centerfold of a Double D titted bimbo (haha he'll like that one) in a porno mag, but the rest of the magazine is about sucking dick and gay dress code (see end of Playboy for reference).  It won't sell.

That's a good assessment; the problem is that a lot of Gen Xers are gullible or autistic and will buy anything that on the surface appears to be offering them memberberries.

Quote from: GeekyBugle on May 31, 2024, 01:28:24 PMIMHO Mearls is an idiot, he should have made something and self-publish, Also fucking Chaosium? I'm not buying ANYTHING from them ever.

Second that regarding Chaosium. RuneQuest used to be a favorite but they lost me long ago and have just piled on additional reasons since.

Quote from: GeekyBugle on May 31, 2024, 01:28:24 PMIMHO Mearls is an idiot, he should have made something and self-publish, Also fucking Chaosium? I'm not buying ANYTHING from them ever.

He still has that option on reserve. What's your reason for hating Chaosium?

Quote from: Nakana on June 01, 2024, 12:40:27 PM

Quote from: GeekyBugle on May 31, 2024, 01:28:24 PMIMHO Mearls is an idiot, he should have made something and self-publish, Also fucking Chaosium? I'm not buying ANYTHING from them ever.

He still has that option on reserve. What's your reason for hating Chaosium?

From the RPG watch list on Chaosim, which is solidly Red, hell its Infra Red:

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 Glorantha 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...growing 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. Addition 06/18/2023 Chaosium has indeed affirmed their stance on pushing female knights into pendragon as the default setting option. Also in recent events Chaosium has put a book called "The Six Paths" on pwyw that talking about gender identities in Glorantha with proceeds going to a charity called the Mermaids. This charity is currently under investigation by the UK governing body, specifically target's children and advocates for chemical and surgical interventions on minors. The website also prides itself in hiding this information from parents and caretakers and is even equipped with a quick navigate away button that takes the user to wikipedia. They maintain forums and other communications with children behind their caretakers backs and have had issues with pedophiles using it as a way to get into contact with kids. This puts chaosium solidly in the red category

Interestingly, the TBP thread about him was fairly objective. They knew someone had claimed stuff had happened to them that was incriminating towards Mike (to keep the story short) but no one could remember who it was or where the claim was made, and some of them acknowledged this wasn't exactly damning evidence.

Quote from: honeydipperdavid on June 01, 2024, 03:30:25 PMFrom the RPG watch list on Chaosim, which is solidly Red, hell its Infra Red:

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 Glorantha 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...growing 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. Addition 06/18/2023 Chaosium has indeed affirmed their stance on pushing female knights into pendragon as the default setting option. Also in recent events Chaosium has put a book called "The Six Paths" on pwyw that talking about gender identities in Glorantha with proceeds going to a charity called the Mermaids. This charity is currently under investigation by the UK governing body, specifically target's children and advocates for chemical and surgical interventions on minors. The website also prides itself in hiding this information from parents and caretakers and is even equipped with a quick navigate away button that takes the user to wikipedia. They maintain forums and other communications with children behind their caretakers backs and have had issues with pedophiles using it as a way to get into contact with kids. This puts chaosium solidly in the red category

Wow, I did not know any of that. The thread I see still has Chaosium as yellow in the first post. Is it no longer being updated? Not gonna read through 287 pages of posts for the latest.

Quote from: RPGer678 on June 01, 2024, 04:27:32 PMInterestingly, the TBP thread about him was fairly objective. They knew someone had claimed stuff had happened to them that was incriminating towards Mike (to keep the story short) but no one could remember who it was or where the claim was made, and some of them acknowledged this wasn't exactly damning evidence.

Except for the one mod that just can't let go of the notion that Mike should apologize. lol. Mike doesn't owe anyone any public apologies from what I can gather.

Quote from: Nakana on June 01, 2024, 12:40:27 PMWhat's your reason for hating Chaosium?

My own problem with Chaosium is they gave license to Mongoose to publish RuneQuest. Mongoose used the OGL and a bunch of companies used that to create their own games. Then Chaosium ended the license and said the OGL was invalid except for one publisher they liked. They had years to tell Mongoose their license did not allow them to publish to the OGL but they didn't. I might have a few details wrong but the whole thing left a bad taste in my mouth.

They also threw a hissy fit over d20 Unearthed Arcana having the sanity rules in it.

Quote from: honeydipperdavid on June 01, 2024, 03:30:25 PMFrom the RPG watch list on Chaosim, which is solidly Red, hell its Infra Red:

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 ...

*INSERT THE FAKE AND GAY HERE*

Chaosium is a more subtle that Wotc, as most of what was listed would largely be unknown unless you were both paying close attention, and were familiar with the game. But they are also clearly just as far down the rabbit hole as well.

Clearly Baizuo has some work to do to catch up...