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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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LiferGamer

#555
July 26, 2020, 01:45:07 PM
Quote from: HappyDaze;1141808Anybody have video to share of these "they" coming for their rulebooks? I want to see what defenses I need to prepare.

Here you go smartass, it'll save you asking a third time: Link
Your Forgotten Realms was my first The Last Jedi.

If the party is gonna die, they want to be riding and blasting/hacking away at a separate one of Tiamat's heads as she plummets towards earth with broken wings while Solars and Planars sing.

HappyDaze

#556
July 26, 2020, 02:45:45 PM
Quote from: LiferGamer;1141819Here you go smartass, it'll save you asking a third time: Link

Oh, I didn't realize that "they" were Nazis...and fictional representations of them at that. Whew! I think my old rulebooks are going to be just fine.

Ratman_tf

#557
July 26, 2020, 03:23:48 PM
Quote from: HappyDaze;1141808Anybody have video to share of these "they" coming for their rulebooks? I want to see what defenses I need to prepare.

They're not sending the brown shirts yet. You have a chance to burn your white supremacist literature before it gets to that step.
In the meantime, they can make sure you can't buy it or share it or talk about it. And why would you, you filthy racist?
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

sharps54

#558
July 26, 2020, 09:07:08 PM
Quote from: HappyDaze;1141808Anybody have video to share of these "they" coming for their rulebooks? I want to see what defenses I need to prepare.

I posted it last page, they are changing the wording of PDFs without any footnotes or version number changes. So if you buy the PDF of Tunnels & Trolls 1st edition you will never know by reading it that the spell name 'Obey Me' didn't exist until July of 2020.

HappyDaze

#559
July 26, 2020, 09:16:51 PM
Quote from: sharps54;1141885I posted it last page, they are changing the wording of PDFs without any footnotes or version number changes. So if you buy the PDF of Tunnels & Trolls 1st edition you will never know by reading it that the spell name 'Obey Me' didn't exist until July of 2020.

So they are not coming after *my* (or anyone else's) old books; they are changing what you can pick up through them going forward.

Shasarak

#560
July 26, 2020, 09:33:00 PM
Quote from: HappyDaze;1141886So they are not coming after *my* (or anyone else's) old books; they are changing what you can pick up through them going forward.

Do you think that they would give a heads up when coming for *your* old books?
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pathetically struggling,
look at the good things you've got! -  Jesus

Mr_X

#561
July 26, 2020, 10:31:08 PM
Quote from: sharps54;1141885I posted it last page, they are changing the wording of PDFs without any footnotes or version number changes. So if you buy the PDF of Tunnels & Trolls 1st edition you will never know by reading it that the spell name 'Obey Me' didn't exist until July of 2020.

Literally the job of the main character from 1984.

WillInNewHaven

#562
July 26, 2020, 10:43:38 PM
Quote from: SHARK;1141785Greetings!

Honestly, I became very bored with America's fetishizing and obsession with Japan--the Samurai, the Giesha, the Ninja--all of that, a long time ago. I think Mongolia, Ancient China, Ancient India, and South-East Asia are far more interesting.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

I felt that way for awhile. In fact, when my game world reached east Asia, around 1988, I decided that Japan had sunk into the sea. However, my gamers didn't like that, so most of the population got away and settled on the east coast of China. Still have people playing Ronin acting as caravan guards on the Silk Road, though. Could not eradicate it entirely.

WillInNewHaven

#563
July 26, 2020, 10:49:29 PM
Quote from: sharps54;1141885I posted it last page, they are changing the wording of PDFs without any footnotes or version number changes. So if you buy the PDF of Tunnels & Trolls 1st edition you will never know by reading it that the spell name 'Obey Me' didn't exist until July of 2020.

When the author was interviewed, he was eager to point out that T & T uses a different term than 'race,' so it can't be racist. No one had said it was, of course. I think the term was "heritage."

tenbones

#564
July 27, 2020, 01:22:48 AM
Quote from: HappyDaze;1141886So they are not coming after *my* (or anyone else's) old books; they are changing what you can pick up through them going forward.

1984 sends you their regards. They were just changing the news, in a work of fiction for the purposes of showing you a horrid possible reality for the purposes of *fiction*. SJW's writ large on the left are doing it in reality.

That you can dismiss it as basically inconsequential, is commensurate to the fact that they're doing this with History - see 1619 project.

Same stupid song, same nefarious purpose. NONE of this is solving their pretend-outrage of racism. What its real intent is for is to condition people to accept this new narrative of reality as if it's true.

Brad

#565
July 27, 2020, 10:56:35 AM
Quote from: sharps54;1141885I posted it last page, they are changing the wording of PDFs without any footnotes or version number changes. So if you buy the PDF of Tunnels & Trolls 1st edition you will never know by reading it that the spell name 'Obey Me' didn't exist until July of 2020.

Hmmm...I got a notification of an update to that file and I just looked: you are 100% correct. It's supposed to be Yassa-Massa, and the original PDF says that. But the edit is so subtle and looks EXACTLY the same you'd never know the difference.

1984 indeed. Anyone who denies this is willfully complicit.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Ghostmaker

#566
July 27, 2020, 11:15:52 AM
Quote from: LiferGamer;1141696The new classes are very cool - I especially like the spellcasters, you've got flavorful spells, monsters, and a decent toolkit to put a (mostly japanese)asian veneer on your OD&D game; the honor rules are a little clunky and odd when it comes to a group working together...

Overall, I found it good except for 'Zebs' trash-talk of european armies in the forward.  ;)

Still better than the godawful abortion of OA 3E, which attempted to cram the Legend of the Five Rings setting into d20. Buddha wept.

Omega

#567
July 27, 2020, 06:41:34 PM
hah! I had 3e OA and everyone showed it to considered it very not OA and instead just Legend of the Five Rings for d20. Not a single one thought it was OA.

Shrieking Banshee

#568
July 28, 2020, 08:24:46 AM
Quote from: HappyDaze;1141808Anybody have video to share of these "they" coming for their rulebooks? I want to see what defenses I need to prepare.

At first they came for modern books but I didn't care because I didn't use modern books.
Then they came for old book PDFs but I didn't care because I didn't use their PDFs.
Then they-

We really need to do this again?

Ghostmaker

#569
July 28, 2020, 08:28:58 AM
Quote from: Shrieking Banshee;1142097At first they came for modern books but I didn't care because I didn't use modern books.
Then they came for old book PDFs but I didn't care because I didn't use their PDFs.
Then they-

We really need to do this again?

Then they tried to come for my books, and I shot them all and buried them under my flowerbeds and vegetable gardens.

See how nicely the flowers are growing this year?
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