Quote from: GhostNinja on January 17, 2024, 05:34:35 PMWhether TheRPGPundit is here or not doesn't matter one bit to me.

But you are clearly NOT pushing left-leaning politics. Which was my point. And which IS something Pawsplay seems to be doing.

Quote from: zer0th on January 16, 2024, 10:44:27 PM
I wasn't going to post here because I don't have much to say about the departed. I just found out that I have been using one of Jaquays' books for a campaign in the past year: Savage Frontier. But since this has been derailed beyond salvage, I will add that pawsplay attempts to build arguments out of State authority are pathetic. I wonder whether or not pawsplay would be such a defender of legalism, if Jaquays and him lived in a country that didn't allow one to change one's legal gender. Would you complain about the people that here in this thread decided to use Jennell because Saudi Arabia DMV didn't recognize Jennell, only Paul?

I wish my post and pawsplay's and all replies to him would be deleted from this thread.

The one about the northern lands? Luskan and some other notable locales? That was alot of writing! They packed quite a bit into the booklet.

Quote from: Llew ap Hywel on January 18, 2024, 08:49:00 AM
How compatible is it with non DnD games?

Well... The Savage Frontier is about the northwestern corner of Faerûn, so it is an AD&D1's Forgotten Realms product. But if you are playing Forgotten Realms using a different system, it is still pretty useful. Most of the book is descriptive, dealing with the history, peoples, towns, and npcs of the North. I think I would get The North boxed set though (still credited to Jaquays mostly), I remember that there were only one or two things that was in The Savage Frontier and not in The North that made to my campaign notes.

On the other hand, if you are NOT playing at all in the Forgotten Realms, the book is not useful at all. It isn't a book about running campaigns in any frontier of civilization, or even some generic frontier that you can fit in any other fantasy world without issue. It is rooted in the Realms, with connections to the neighboring regions and assuming the Faerûnian pantheon.

Quote from: Omega on January 20, 2024, 01:59:28 AM
The one about the northern lands? Luskan and some other notable locales? That was alot of writing! They packed quite a bit into the booklet.

Indeed! I only made notes about the area around the Triboar Trail for my campaign and it is already a lot of interesting and non-repetitive goodies that I hope my players will bite eventually.

Quote from: Grognard GM on January 19, 2024, 05:18:32 PM
Apology accepted. I'd hope by now that I have earned enough cache here for people not to jump to the worst conclusion at anything I say.

As far as smearing pawsplay without justification...wowza.

As far as 'sick of a lot of the culture' here, I'm not sure what you expect? I mean I do, you expect the other sites to drive us all away, and then this site to be 'reasonable' and 'balanced' which means tone policing, and becoming welcoming to the people that have taken over every other rpg site.

Well, you were lying and wrong, so.

Quote from: pawsplay on January 20, 2024, 04:16:37 PM

Quote from: Grognard GM on January 19, 2024, 05:18:32 PM
Apology accepted. I'd hope by now that I have earned enough cache here for people not to jump to the worst conclusion at anything I say.

As far as smearing pawsplay without justification...wowza.

As far as 'sick of a lot of the culture' here, I'm not sure what you expect? I mean I do, you expect the other sites to drive us all away, and then this site to be 'reasonable' and 'balanced' which means tone policing, and becoming welcoming to the people that have taken over every other rpg site.

Well, you were lying and wrong, so.

Naw he's not lying your a leftard dragging the corpse of Jennel to get political points and to enforce your fucked up social constructionist view on people.  You really aren't liked and I'll make you feel it.  You don't have the ability to compel people to accept your world view.  Jennel was born a man and died man.  Everyone knows it and so do you.  He had a mental problem and wanted to be viewed as a woman.  Most people are ok with it face to face as am I.  But I'm not going to play that game outside of the person with the mental illness.  Between men there always is a social agreement of violence taking place in arguments and its not worth getting axed down because you didn't play make believe.  So as to gatekeeping, tone policing, yeah you are going to get it, why?  Because site without heavy leftwing moderation always goes to the right of the argument due to merit.  People can say whatever they want on they want, but its best say your peace once, talk about how cruel people to a person whose dead, never cared about their views in the first place, never known them or would in the first place but when you continue to drag said dead person that is when people had issues with you, that is when it became very obvious it was political for you and not friendship.  Ghoul comes to mind. 

Quote from: honeydipperdavid on January 20, 2024, 05:20:38 PM
People can say whatever they want on they want, but its best say your peace once, talk about how cruel people to a person whose dead, never cared about their views in the first place, never known them or would in the first place but when you continue to drag said dead person that is when people had issues with you, that is when it became very obvious it was political for you and not friendship.  Ghoul comes to mind.

Oh, were you friends with Jennell?

Quote from: pawsplay on January 20, 2024, 06:45:56 PM

Quote from: honeydipperdavid on January 20, 2024, 05:20:38 PM
People can say whatever they want on they want, but its best say your peace once, talk about how cruel people to a person whose dead, never cared about their views in the first place, never known them or would in the first place but when you continue to drag said dead person that is when people had issues with you, that is when it became very obvious it was political for you and not friendship.  Ghoul comes to mind.

Oh, were you friends with Jennell?

I mean, they didn't exchange messages on Facebook, so not true blue buddies like you were with them.

Quote from: Grognard GM on January 20, 2024, 08:52:47 PM

Quote from: pawsplay on January 20, 2024, 06:45:56 PM
Oh, were you friends with Jennell?

I mean, they didn't exchange messages on Facebook, so not true blue buddies like you were with them.

Quote from: pawsplay on January 20, 2024, 06:45:56 PM

Quote from: honeydipperdavid on January 20, 2024, 05:20:38 PM
People can say whatever they want on they want, but its best say your peace once, talk about how cruel people to a person whose dead, never cared about their views in the first place, never known them or would in the first place but when you continue to drag said dead person that is when people had issues with you, that is when it became very obvious it was political for you and not friendship.  Ghoul comes to mind.

Oh, were you friends with Jennell?

Good strawman.  No one cares about people they never met, never talked to, and are anonymous online and never could know.  I get you are douche, but you aren't helping yourself.  You might as well be writing you care about a strand of DNA on another planet.

Quote from: honeydipperdavid on January 21, 2024, 12:26:30 AMYou might as well be writing you care about a strand of DNA on another planet.

Paws would care, if the strand of DNA Transitioned.

Or if it died, then Paws could posthumously say the DNA was Trans, and it proved Cis DNA is abhorrent to Earth.

Quote from: Grognard GM on January 21, 2024, 12:42:00 AM

Quote from: honeydipperdavid on January 21, 2024, 12:26:30 AMYou might as well be writing you care about a strand of DNA on another planet.

Paws would care, if the strand of DNA Transitioned.

Or if it died, then Paws could posthumously say the DNA was Trans, and it proved Cis DNA is abhorrent to Earth.

The scary thing about people like pawsy, they are against genetics as a science.  The social constructivist fucks took over Russia, put up Lysenko as a biologist who went against genetics, sent thousands of biologists to gulags to get them to comply and then that whackjob who was against the enlightenment and scientific method went back to magical creation model (think 1200 AD) where he put rye in a freezer to create wheat.  Tens of millions of people died due to that nutter hating biology replacement of genetics for agriculture. The chinese followed his methods to help starve 50M to death there as well. Good thing our biologists are standing up defending biological sex because they know history, oh wait.

Quote from: pawsplay on January 17, 2024, 03:57:49 PM

It really is a shame to see a bright and wonderful games designer fall prey to mental illness. I wish others could see how unacceptable that is but they'd rather make themselves feel good by pretending to be moral and telling a mentally ill person what they want to hear. Even though it causes them more suffering and inevitably leads to well.. you know what he did.

Quote from: Digitalelf on January 20, 2024, 12:24:36 AM
But you are clearly NOT pushing left-leaning politics. Which was my point. And which IS something Pawsplay seems to be doing.

This is true.  I don't want any politics mixed up with my gaming.  I dont want it when I am forum posting and I do not allow it at either of my tables when I am running a game.  If someone says something political I will warn them.

I haven't had to kick anyone out for being political yet.

Quote from: honeydipperdavid on January 21, 2024, 09:16:30 AM
The scary thing about people like pawsy, they are against genetics as a science.  The social constructivist fucks took over Russia, put up Lysenko as a biologist who went against genetics, sent thousands of biologists to gulags to get them to comply and then that whackjob who was against the enlightenment and scientific method went back to magical creation model (think 1200 AD) where he put rye in a freezer to create wheat.

I haven't talked with pawsplay about genetics - but in general, the transgender people who I have known are all very well informed about the genetics of sex including chromosomes, human sexual dimorphism, and the effects of testosterone and estrogen not just for those in transition, but in general human development. If I asked a tricky scientific question about sexual differences - like say, whether men or women on average had a higher white blood cell count, or the different intersex conditions - I'd guess that a transgender person is more likely to get the right answer. They are typically well-read on medical science relating to their situation.

A good friend of mine wrote a memoir about her transition over the last few years, and some of the more intriguing parts were when she explained about the science of sexual differences and medical details. This is her book:

https://www.amazon.com/Dragonfly-Memoir-Marie-Maxham/dp/B0BSJBWWTT

I would expect that Jaquays was also well-informed and believed in the medical science of sexual differences.