I just shared the 4 worst things to come out of #gencon this year.
#dnd #dnd5e #OSR #ttrpg

Quote from: RPGPundit on August 08, 2023, 11:04:25 AM
"POLITICALLY SUSPECT INFLUENCERS"...

They all just all have a Normie/Boomer mentality:

GenCon is the "BIG EVENT".

They have always gone to the "BIG EVENT". All their friends go to the "BIG EVENT".

Q: The Gencon owner and organizers are woke AF, and hate white people. Why do you give them your money?

A: "Doesn't affect my game or my table."

Must go to "BIG EVENT"...


Even the Normies have to engage in a lot of Normie willful ignorance.

It's not like all the struggle session panels, anti-white awards, and other assorted SJW BS isn't on the Gencon program for all to read...

"Doesn't affect my game or my table."

Must game at "BIG EVENT"...

This thread title, offers so much to those who check in.  It seems that we love to delve into the muck and mire, of awful RPG offerings.  We just love to mock the awful stuff, we stumble across.

Quote from: Jam The MF on August 08, 2023, 06:25:11 PM
This thread title, offers so much to those who check in.  It seems that we love to delve into the muck and mire, of awful RPG offerings.  We just love to mock the awful stuff, we stumble across.

I'd rather find diamonds but if all we are left with is cringy shit, we may as well have some fun mocking them.

I would watch (listen) to a Tim Kask video regarding past Gencons and find a strange nostalgia for something I never experienced. He would talk very positively about events before social media and it's really sad such an era can no longer be experienced. No where can you go now that is just a fantasy related convention that isn't infected with (what I'll call) "the social virus." Where ever you go is going to have some degree of "The Current Thing," and that's really just exhausting. It would be nice to have a time machine to simply experience events with a conglomerate of actual normal people. The closest thing I can think of at the moment is watching those "last day of high school" videos from the late 90s and the early 2000s.

Quote from: Yin on August 09, 2023, 11:08:04 AM
I would watch (listen) to a Tim Kask video regarding past Gencons and find a strange nostalgia for something I never experienced. He would talk very positively about events before social media and it's really sad such an era can no longer be experienced. No where can you go now that is just a fantasy related convention that isn't infected with (what I'll call) "the social virus." Where ever you go is going to have some degree of "The Current Thing," and that's really just exhausting. It would be nice to have a time machine to simply experience events with a conglomerate of actual normal people. The closest thing I can think of at the moment is watching those "last day of high school" videos from the late 90s and the early 2000s.

You might consider finding PDFs of Dragon Magazine circa the 80's and reading the Forum. It amuses me how little has changed in 30 years

Been to Gencon once.  Found it expensive and overrated.   I could do and see everything I really needed to do and see in a day.    No interest in going back.

I go to Pax Unplugged near me and would go to a smaller con if it were doable.

Meh. The way GenCon handled the assault on Jeremy Hambly tells me that my money can be better spent elsewhere.

Organizing a local event instead sounds like the way to go.

Quote from: RPGPundit on August 08, 2023, 11:04:25 AM
I just shared the 4 worst things to come out of #gencon this year.
#dnd #dnd5e #OSR #ttrpg

Did you go to GenCon or have you ever been?

Quote from: Jaeger on August 08, 2023, 04:34:59 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit on August 08, 2023, 11:04:25 AM
"POLITICALLY SUSPECT INFLUENCERS"...

They all just all have a Normie/Boomer mentality:

GenCon is the "BIG EVENT".

They have always gone to the "BIG EVENT". All their friends go to the "BIG EVENT".

Q: The Gencon owner and organizers are woke AF, and hate white people. Why do you give them your money?

A: "Doesn't affect my game or my table."

Must go to "BIG EVENT"...


Even the Normies have to engage in a lot of Normie willful ignorance.

It's not like all the struggle session panels, anti-white awards, and other assorted SJW BS isn't on the Gencon program for all to read...

"Doesn't affect my game or my table."

Must game at "BIG EVENT"...

Ain't that the fucking truth.

It's the same NPC behavior that keeps people watching the Simpsons 20-25 years after it was any good, or watching the latest superhero show pooped out by CW because 'it has that character I'm a fan of, so I must watch every season, even though I don't really like it."

Quote from: Grognard GM on August 10, 2023, 12:58:49 AM

Quote from: Jaeger on August 08, 2023, 04:34:59 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit on August 08, 2023, 11:04:25 AM
"POLITICALLY SUSPECT INFLUENCERS"...

They all just all have a Normie/Boomer mentality:

GenCon is the "BIG EVENT".

They have always gone to the "BIG EVENT". All their friends go to the "BIG EVENT".

Q: The Gencon owner and organizers are woke AF, and hate white people. Why do you give them your money?

A: "Doesn't affect my game or my table."

Must go to "BIG EVENT"...


Even the Normies have to engage in a lot of Normie willful ignorance.

It's not like all the struggle session panels, anti-white awards, and other assorted SJW BS isn't on the Gencon program for all to read...

"Doesn't affect my game or my table."

Must game at "BIG EVENT"...

Ain't that the fucking truth.

It's the same NPC behavior that keeps people watching the Simpsons 20-25 years after it was any good, or watching the latest superhero show pooped out by CW because 'it has that character I'm a fan of, so I must watch every season, even though I don't really like it."

I watched the first Dr Strange, because he's my favorite superhero. Haven't watched anything after that.

For DC, I'm going to agree with the person that observed (even aside from actual quality issues), that with all the different timelines and reboots, people have no idea what to watch or in what order - and it turns them off. We get HBO Max online for free with our internet, and I just don't want to deal with figuring out what goes with what, especially when it'll probably suck.

What are the 4 things so I dont have to waste time watching a video.

Two people, an old lady and a woman with a stroller (seriously, who brings their baby to a gaming convention?) got trampled by crowds trying to get their hands on Lorcana, a game that will be in every store in about a week.  The waiting line for this game was 13 hours.  From what I hear, there were people trying to cut the line saying "Let me through, I'm a GM!" As though that gives you some privilege. 

I saw some other nonsense as I strolled the convention center in between running games.  There was the BIPOC lounge that had about three people in it.  I guess there aren't as many BIPOC as they thought there would be.

Quote from: Svenhelgrim on August 10, 2023, 02:15:30 PM
I saw some other nonsense as I strolled the convention center in between running games.  There was the BIPOC lounge that had about three people in it.  I guess there aren't as many BIPOC as they thought there would be.

Well, I hope it's people refusing to be patronized.

Imaging going to Japan for, I dunno, an anime convention and there's a white people room. "What the fuck" is what I'd say.