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Now they are coming for your old rulebooks

Started by Melan, June 29, 2020, 05:01:25 PM

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Shasarak

Quote from: Brad;1139515Did you actually type all this out with a straight face?

Everyone knows that Cancel culture is not real.  People and Companies just suffer from the consequences of their free speech.
Who da Drow?  U da drow! - hedgehobbit

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

GeekyBugle

#466
Quote from: Mistwell;1139509Oh here comes the moral police, telling others to not play games they like because the company behind them violates some personal morality rules of the user. I do appreciate you included the word "preach" with your post. At least you're honest that you're practicing a religion.

How about this for a principal: "Don't tell others it's badwrongfun to play games they like."

Here is another principal: "Don't tell others to make a sacrifice you're unwilling to make." You don't fucking play 5e, so you asking others to not play 5e is no sacrifice for you, just for them. Let's see you stop playing a game you enjoy because someone else tells you the company that makes it violates some moral principal of theirs?

I love how guys like you think you're better than social justice warriors to despise. You're just the other side of the same coin, moralizing to others to make sacrifices for your cause to signal to like-minded people that you're in good standing with your bubble community of fanatics.

Yeah, tots the same shit as trying to ruin your life for writing/playing the wrong kind of game or in the wrong way right?
Quote from: Rhedyn

Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

― George Orwell

rocksfalleverybodydies

Quote from: Thornhammer;1139474...The aboleth begins to dissipate into a cloud of foul liquid.  Its final thoughts...are sufficient to cause damage, everybody give me an Intelligence check....

Ok, that was funny.  Now I want to see that last-thoughts of monsters product come to fruition.

Mistwell

Quote from: Brad;1139515Did you actually type all this out with a straight face?

Absolutely. I detest moralizing shits who tell others to not play games they enjoy because of their personal morality issues. You don't want to play the game, cool, then don't play it. Don't tell me to not play it because of your issues.

By the way, I happen to like a bunch of the stuff in Vornheim: The Complete City Kit. So even if you don't like Zak S., I intend to continue to use the parts of that book I enjoy in my games, and fuck anyone who tells me I shouldn't because they have an issue with Zak S..

And if I like something Pundit publishes, I will play that too. Regardless of whether some people don't like Pundit.

The art is not the artist. You play the stuff you enjoy, regardless of how people feel about the author or company that publishes it.

Mistwell

Quote from: GeekyBugle;1139616Yeah, tots the same shit as trying to ruin your life for writing/playing the wrong kind of game or in the wrong way right?

WOTC is not trying to "ruin your life" for playing the wrong kind of game you fucking hysterical fragile drama queen. Who are you, the "Leave Britney Alone" guy?



If they are trying to "ruin your life" (which is news to me, you should post about it), I can understand you not wanting to play their games. But I STILL cannot understand you telling other people who enjoy their games to not play them. Just move the fuck on to the games you do enjoy.

Ratman_tf

Quote from: Mistwell;1139747WOTC is not trying to "ruin your life" for playing the wrong kind of game you fucking hysterical fragile drama queen. Who are you, the "Leave Britney Alone" guy?



If they are trying to "ruin your life" (which is news to me, you should post about it), I can understand you not wanting to play their games. But I STILL cannot understand you telling other people who enjoy their games to not play them. Just move the fuck on to the games you do enjoy.

Because it's the goddamn company caving in to one podcast. Why should WOTC put "warning labels" on ALL their previous products?

Do you agree with WOTC that ALL of the pre-5th edition prouduct is offensive?

Do you think the slacktivists were correct, and that Oriental Adventures should have been taken off the marketplace?

Or are you here to try and troll people, and you don't actually give a shit beyond the trolling?
The notion of an exclusionary and hostile RPG community is a fever dream of zealots who view all social dynamics through a narrow keyhole of structural oppression.
-Haffrung

GeekyBugle

Quote from: Mistwell;1139747WOTC is not trying to "ruin your life" for playing the wrong kind of game you fucking hysterical fragile drama queen. Who are you, the "Leave Britney Alone" guy?



If they are trying to "ruin your life" (which is news to me, you should post about it), I can understand you not wanting to play their games. But I STILL cannot understand you telling other people who enjoy their games to not play them. Just move the fuck on to the games you do enjoy.

Yeah, you were tots talking about WotC when you typed this:

Quote from: Mistwell;1139509Oh here comes the moral police, telling others to not play games they like because the company behind them violates some personal morality rules of the user. I do appreciate you included the word "preach" with your post. At least you're honest that you're practicing a religion.

How about this for a principal: "Don't tell others it's badwrongfun to play games they like."

Here is another principal: "Don't tell others to make a sacrifice you're unwilling to make." You don't fucking play 5e, so you asking others to not play 5e is no sacrifice for you, just for them. Let's see you stop playing a game you enjoy because someone else tells you the company that makes it violates some moral principal of theirs?

I love how guys like you think you're better than social justice warriors to despise. You're just the other side of the same coin, moralizing to others to make sacrifices for your cause to signal to like-minded people that you're in good standing with your bubble community of fanatics.

You were tots not comparing us with the SJWs, no sire, not you, you've never been a disingenuous twat playing Mote & Bailey and moving from one to the other when someone challenges your bullshit.

FECK OFF!
Quote from: Rhedyn

Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

― George Orwell

RandyB

Quote from: Ratman_tf;1139752Because it's the goddamn company caving in to one podcast. Why should WOTC put "warning labels" on ALL their previous products?

Do you agree with WOTC that ALL of the pre-5th edition prouduct is offensive?

Do you think the slacktivists were correct, and that Oriental Adventures should have been taken off the marketplace?

Or are you here to try and troll people, and you don't actually give a shit beyond the trolling?

The answer to your question is "All of the above."

Razor 007

Quote from: 1989;1139491Nobody should be buying anything from WotC anymore, and nobody should be playing 5e anymore, either.

Not like it will make a difference, but it's the principle.

Like SpinachCat has preached many times, here: people need to get a backbone and stop supporting it. Spend your dollars elsewhere, with publishers who are not bowing down to politics.

Not buying from WOTC anymore, is an argument I understand.  Not playing 5E anymore with products I already own, is not an argument I understand?  I intend to use my own property.  They've already made and spent that money by now, anyway.

Those who have already bought into 5E, should just play 5E in a way that's unapproved by WOTC.  "That" is an interesting idea.......  5E Adventures, in The Land of Forever Frig!!!
I need you to roll a perception check.....

Brad

Quote from: Mistwell;1139746Absolutely. I detest moralizing shits who tell others to not play games they enjoy because of their personal morality issues.

You do realize that is EXACTLY what the SJWs are trying to do, right? But instead of just saying, "Don't play that garbage," like people here, they actively seek to destroy your life unless you capitulate and burn all the copies of the books you have and delete the PDFs.

You might THINK you have the moral high ground, but you're just next on the chopping block.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

1989

#475
Quote from: Razor 007;1139771Not buying from WOTC anymore, is an argument I understand.  Not playing 5E anymore with products I already own, is not an argument I understand?  I intend to use my own property.  They've already made and spent that money by now, anyway.

Those who have already bought into 5E, should just play 5E in a way that's unapproved by WOTC.  "That" is an interesting idea.......  5E Adventures, in The Land of Forever Frig!!!

Yes, it's a hard line to hold, I admit.

By the way, I've really enjoyed a lot of threads you've started here. Always interesting topics (often questions I have been asking my own self), and I always check in.

Omega

Quote from: TJS;1139273I have to admit I don't get Orcs in D&D.  I haven't used them in a long time and I don't really see any function they fill that couldn't be better be filled by human bandits or raiders.

Thats actually a thing. You dont have to use orcs or kobolds oe any monsters at all in D&D and could run your enemies as humans, normal animals, the supernatural and be perfectly fine.

Omega

Quote from: rocksfalleverybodydies;1139618Ok, that was funny.  Now I want to see that last-thoughts of monsters product come to fruition.

Theres actually a video animation up on the Tua-toa and how you could use their "belief creates gods" ability to make new god monsters that look like the thing that killed them. EG: one or more of the PCs.

Kyle Aaron

I was watching this zombie show, and they found a baby who turned out to be a zombie baby. Everyone was hesitant to shoot it, then it ate the special forces guy, and so they all confronted it in a standoff, and opened up together.

Orcs are evil. Kill orc babies.
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Shasarak

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;1139864I was watching this zombie show, and they found a baby who turned out to be a zombie baby. Everyone was hesitant to shoot it, then it ate the special forces guy, and so they all confronted it in a standoff, and opened up together.

Orcs are evil. Kill orc babies.

Is it bad to say that a Zombie Baby could be useful resource?  You could make a little cage and bring it out when you need it.
Who da Drow?  U da drow! - hedgehobbit

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