Quote from: myleftnut;1084801So I'm new here after reading but rarely posting on rpg.net for years. This Bill Webb thing is the last straw.  I'm seeing people banned for posting "guyz...do you think maybe kinda sorta ruining a persons life over this is going too far?...maybe...sorta...a litttle?"  There are calls to ruin unrelated companies over this shit. I agree there should be consequences for sexual misconduct but the posts I'm reading are bullshit. I consider myself a "liberal" or whatever the fuck that means but I appreciate diversity of thought and thinking for yourself.  

So I'm hoping I can find a place to read and post about games where people have common sense. I don't know much about this forum other than from critics and registered without really reading a lot of the content. So I have a question.  Is this just a "right wing" equivalent to rpg.net or are all options welcome?

Well... It's mostly democrats here on this forum. They are the louder group. But there is no cultural war here in this thread. Maybe in one of the political threads, outside of the RPG threads, there are democrats losing all their debates as expected.

Quote from: Beldar;1084859I am an old school style game master who sits on the conservative side of libertarianism (TANSTAAFL.)

Another Heinlein fan?

(TANSTAAFL = There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. From The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein)

Quote from: myleftnut;1084801Is this just a "right wing" equivalent to rpg.net or are all options welcome?

Nothing can be the equivalent of RPGnet lunacy ;-) !

I believe the owner of the site believes in free speech (the real deal, not the shitty "free speech BUT... for progressives ONLY, you Nazi cis-gendered oppressive colonialist dead white ablist scum person !").

Things can get a llittle rough verbally around here, but we're all grown up, and we can hopefully take it, aren't we ?

Anyway, I bid you welcome, fellow gamer !

Quote from: jeff37923;1084865Another Heinlein fan?

(TANSTAAFL = There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. From The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein)

Indeed, citizen.

Welcome to wackyland.

Talk about RPGs.
Expect any given thread to wander off topic at least 1d10 times.
Expect all sorts of differing ideas on a topic.
Expect occasionally one of the resident village idiots try yet another sad attempt at trolling a thread.
Expect occasionally one of the storygamer, RPGnet or general SJW trolls to try another sad attempt at drive-by trolling.
Expect everyone else to discuss topics in a vaguely sane manner until Chris or one of the other regulars goes off their meds again.
Expect members to be fairly forgiving of your many and unforgivable faults.
Expect no mercy!

Quote from: Shasarak;1084826Welcome to the site!

Isnt every other site right wing compared to rpg.net?

Basically this. RPGNet will call you alt-right just for posting here. They'll call you alt-right for posting literally any thought that doesn't align with their group-think (which was already done in the OP). Hell, they'll even call you alt-right just for coming to this site out of curiosity to see what it's all about. But that doesn't make this site "right wing".

There are actually people on The Big Purple (TBP) that I like having conversations with. I just make a habit of staying away from basically any thread started by a moderator (if I could "ignore" the entirety of the mod staff, I would), or anything obviously set up to skew political in the subject. If you can manage that, the place isn't so bad - but it can go from zero to bat-shit-totally-off-the-rails-crazy in no time flat. I'm actually convinced if the mod staff in particular were to be evaluated, you'd be able to commit every last one to a mental institution.

This site, and it's people, are a lot of fun. It has it's quirks too though. For one thing my personal observation is that it skews heavily to favouring OSR style games, and due to Pundit's own views, anything considered "story game" will earn you some measure of ire. And there are a few personalities here who clearly can't stand each other. But what's refreshing about it is that most of the conversation will actually be, you know, about the games we all love.

Welcome to the site!

Quote from: myleftnut;1084801So I'm hoping I can find a place to read and post about games where people have common sense. I don't know much about this forum other than from critics and registered without really reading a lot of the content. So I have a question.  Is this just a "right wing" equivalent to rpg.net or are all options welcome?

You have found that place. I'm thinner-skinned than many around here - I have a robustly-populated Ignore List. The conversation here is definitely rough-and-tumble.

There is the least tolerance among the posters here for the kinds of opinions that are de rigueur at RPG.net; in that sense, this place is the "anti-RPGnet", in the "matter-antimatter" sense. OTOH, this is not an echo chamber - it's a verbal mosh pit.

Sounds like you will do just fine here.

I'm also seeking safe harbour from the clusterfuck that is RPGnet. I visited there regularly since about 2005, and always liked the place. But no more. The fucking lunatics have taken over the asylum.

I consider myself socially liberal, but the hysteria that the whole Webb/SJG/FGG fiasco has generated has shown me that RPGnet is nothing but an Orwellian enclave of Right-Think, Double-Speak, and SJW echoing. The mods are Stalinists: not thinking the right way? On the fucking execution list. Dare to question the prevailing doctrine? Take a 6 year visit to this nice cold gulag. Dare to hold an opinion that's even vaguely conservative? You're clearly a Nazi.

I'm glad I found this place. It isn't the alt-right hotbed the fucking Stalinists have been purporting over at RPGKremlin; I've done my homework.

That aside, I play 5e, Call of Cthulhu (I actually do like 7!), Fate, and occasionally some Traveller. There you go.

Quote from: BrokenCounsel;1084898I'm also seeking safe harbour from the clusterfuck that is RPGnet. I visited there regularly since about 2005, and always liked the place. But no more. The fucking lunatics have taken over the asylum.

I consider myself socially liberal, but the hysteria that the whole Webb/SJG/FGG fiasco has generated has shown me that RPGnet is nothing but an Orwellian enclave of Right-Think, Double-Speak, and SJW echoing. The mods are Stalinists: not thinking the right way? On the fucking execution list. Dare to question the prevailing doctrine? Take a 6 year visit to this nice cold gulag. Dare to hold an opinion that's even vaguely conservative? You're clearly a Nazi.

I'm glad I found this place. It isn't the alt-right hotbed the fucking Stalinists have been purporting over at RPGKremlin; I've done my homework.

That aside, I play 5e, Call of Cthulhu (I actually do like 7!), Fate, and occasionally some Traveller. There you go.

Greetings!

Welcome aboard, BrokenCounsel! Welcome indeed, sir. Pour yourself a good drink, and light up a fine cigar! The "Smoking Lamp" is lit! You are definitely a member of the best forum now. 5E is awesome, too.

Whenever I have occasionally read RPG.Net...the posters there...my god, reading that nonsense gives me a headache. They remind me of the frothing SJW feminist freaks that filled my "Women's Studies" classes in college.

It's great to have you with us, BrokenCounsel!

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Quote from: SHARK;1084899Greetings!

Welcome aboard, BrokenCounsel! Welcome indeed, sir. Pour yourself a good drink, and light up a fine cigar! The "Smoking Lamp" is lit! You are definitely a member of the best forum now. 5E is awesome, too.

Whenever I have occasionally read RPG.Net...the posters there...my god, reading that nonsense gives me a headache. They remind me of the frothing SJW feminist freaks that filled my "Women's Studies" classes in college.

It's great to have you with us, BrokenCounsel!

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

That makes sense. I get the impression that most of them are humanities graduates.

Thanks for the warm welcome.

Listen, the feminists have a good fucking point. So do the LGBTQ+ crew. They have been marginalized. There is (insert)phobia out there. Society does need to change. But you don't do that by shutting down reasoned disagreement and opposition. What we're seeing at RPGnet is orchestrated hysteria where sober, rational argument is being machine gunned to fucking death by the Righteous.

Orwell got it bang on the money.

Quote from: BrokenCounsel;1084898I'm also seeking safe harbour from the clusterfuck that is RPGnet. I visited there regularly since about 2005, and always liked the place. But no more. The fucking lunatics have taken over the asylum.

I consider myself socially liberal, but the hysteria that the whole Webb/SJG/FGG fiasco has generated has shown me that RPGnet is nothing but an Orwellian enclave of Right-Think, Double-Speak, and SJW echoing. The mods are Stalinists: not thinking the right way? On the fucking execution list. Dare to question the prevailing doctrine? Take a 6 year visit to this nice cold gulag. Dare to hold an opinion that's even vaguely conservative? You're clearly a Nazi.

I'm glad I found this place. It isn't the alt-right hotbed the fucking Stalinists have been purporting over at RPGKremlin; I've done my homework.

That aside, I play 5e, Call of Cthulhu (I actually do like 7!), Fate, and occasionally some Traveller. There you go.

Welcome to the Mos Eisley Spaceport of gaming forums.

Traveller is most welcome here, but have you heard of Cepheus Engine by any chance?

Quote from: BrokenCounsel;1084902Thanks for the warm welcome.

Listen, the feminists have a good fucking point. So do the LGBTQ+ crew. They have been marginalized. There is (insert)phobia out there. Society does need to change. But you don't do that by shutting down reasoned disagreement and opposition. What we're seeing at RPGnet is orchestrated hysteria where sober, rational argument is being machine gunned to fucking death by the Righteous.

Orwell got it bang on the money.

At the risk of bringing politics into a thread in the gaming forum, the (third wave) feminists don't have a point. They are utterly irrelevant, because the second wave succeeded: on most of the measures that matter, men and women are functionally equal in most developed world democracies. Thus all their Marxist-inspired agitation is designed not to make the sexes equal, but instead to subjugate men and masculinity.

You guys remember Ulairi?

He torched his RPG net account

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/sjg-is-continuing-to-work-with-accused-sexual-harasser-bill-webb-they-are-offering-partial-refunds-to-customers-see-redtext-appended-to-op.844606/page-49

Quote from: Lurtch;1084906You guys remember Ulairi?

He torched his RPG net account

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/sjg-is-continuing-to-work-with-accused-sexual-harasser-bill-webb-they-are-offering-partial-refunds-to-customers-see-redtext-appended-to-op.844606/page-49

Good for Ulari. That is one hell of a  way to make an exit and drop the mic imo.

Agreed and seconded on everything he said. Yet you will see some disingenuous troll here claim that this place is somehow the same if not significant worse than rpg.net.