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The 4 Worst Things to Come Out of Gencon 2023

Started by RPGPundit, August 08, 2023, 11:04:25 AM

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THE_Leopold

#30
August 15, 2023, 04:15:57 PM
Quote from: Thondor on August 15, 2023, 03:19:40 PM
Quote from: THE_Leopold on August 10, 2023, 11:08:38 AM
What are the 4 things so I dont have to waste time watching a video.
Short version:

1) AI art D&D scandal
2) WOTC new deck of many things book
-- the deck is apparently created by a Paladin and their Medusa companion by a "new" designer
3) "Garbage" awards - notably diana jones Coyote and Crow and WotC radiant citadel
4) "Latine" and BIPOC lounge rooms

4 is the one that is explicitly GenCon. 3 is gencon related, since they are announced there I believe?


Thanks for the TLDR. Didn't miss anything then.
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thedungeondelver

#31
August 15, 2023, 04:17:12 PM
People who go to modern gencon are there strictly to consoom.

MUST CONSOOM.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fsi281qpysfq61.jpg
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Mcbobbo sums it up nicely.

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THE_Leopold

#32
August 15, 2023, 04:24:19 PM
Quote from: thedungeondelver on August 15, 2023, 04:17:12 PM
People who go to modern gencon are there strictly to consoom.

MUST CONSOOM.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fsi281qpysfq61.jpg

I go for the Auction and Dealer Room. Worth the travel .
NKL4Lyfe

Grognard GM

#33
August 15, 2023, 06:30:01 PM
Quote from: thedungeondelver on August 15, 2023, 04:17:12 PM
People who go to modern gencon are there strictly to consoom.

MUST CONSOOM.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fsi281qpysfq61.jpg

Back around the turn of the century, my first exposure to Ebay was a gaming friend doing a sniping bid to win...like an Alf lunchbox or something similar. Instead of wanting things then finding them and buying them, he would want things because he saw them, then buy them. In his 30's, lived with his parents despite having a fulltime job, because his room was wall to ceiling in comics, rpgs, dvds, and memorabilia.
I'm a middle aged guy with a lot of free time, looking for similar, to form a group for regular gaming. You should be chill, non-woke, and have time on your hands.

See below:

https://www.therpgsite.com/news-and-adverts/looking-to-form-a-group-of-people-with-lots-of-spare-time-for-regular-games/

Omega

#34
August 16, 2023, 07:25:53 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit on August 15, 2023, 06:19:54 AM
Quote from: Spinachcat on August 12, 2023, 05:32:03 PM
Been to many convention in the past 4 decades.

Small cons are the best.

Even tiny cons are considerably more fun than the "big cons"


Here in Uruguay there are a lot of "little cons", which are either set up by some of the gaming clubs, and sometimes subsidized by the government's youth ministry. They're very fun, usually more fun than bigger cons I attended in North America.

That was our experience as well. Its been know for decades that cons of any sort have a sort of critical mass past which they start to become too complex or lose some element. Or get co-opted by the moral guardians.

SmallMountaineer

#35
August 17, 2023, 06:01:16 PM
Quote from: Svenhelgrim on August 10, 2023, 02:15:30 PM
There was the BIPOC lounge that had about three people in it.

Probably because most BIPOC's in the community don't hate Whites and don't want to be singled out as such.
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#36
August 17, 2023, 09:06:05 PM
Quote from: THE_Leopold on August 15, 2023, 04:15:57 PM
Quote from: Thondor on August 15, 2023, 03:19:40 PM
Quote from: THE_Leopold on August 10, 2023, 11:08:38 AM
What are the 4 things so I dont have to waste time watching a video.
Short version:

1) AI art D&D scandal
2) WOTC new deck of many things book
-- the deck is apparently created by a Paladin and their Medusa companion by a "new" designer
3) "Garbage" awards - notably diana jones Coyote and Crow and WotC radiant citadel
4) "Latine" and BIPOC lounge rooms

4 is the one that is explicitly GenCon. 3 is gencon related, since they are announced there I believe?


Thanks for the TLDR. Didn't miss anything then.

Why are you even here, then?
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#37
August 17, 2023, 09:08:06 PM
Quote from: THE_Leopold on August 10, 2023, 11:08:38 AM
What are the 4 things so I dont have to waste time watching a video.

The next time you post something like this on a video thread, you will be banned for thread disruption.  If you're curious enough to want to know, watch the fucking video. If you're not, you're posting to troll. Either way, you don't get to hijack the thread.
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Thornhammer

#38
August 17, 2023, 10:24:47 PM
Quote from: Thondor on August 15, 2023, 03:19:40 PM
2) WOTC new deck of many things book
-- the deck is apparently created by a Paladin and their Medusa companion by a "new" designer

I'm surprised they're not redoing the Rod of Seven Parts.

Exploderwizard

#39
August 18, 2023, 06:55:47 AM
Quote from: Thornhammer on August 17, 2023, 10:24:47 PM
Quote from: Thondor on August 15, 2023, 03:19:40 PM
2) WOTC new deck of many things book
-- the deck is apparently created by a Paladin and their Medusa companion by a "new" designer

I'm surprised they're not redoing the Rod of Seven Parts.

Give them time. They will eventually re-make everything in glorious wokeness and the rabid hordes of virtue signaling gamers will stand in lines to buy it.
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#40
August 18, 2023, 12:26:07 PM
Quote from: zircher on August 14, 2023, 03:55:13 PM
Quote from: rytrasmi on August 10, 2023, 02:27:42 PM
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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.

BTW, there are themed restaurants in Japan that explicitly state no foreigners allowed or that foreigners must be accompanied but a Japanese person.   ;D

Not just Japan - also in South Korea. Not really "no round-eyes allowed" as much as it is "locals only."

Trust me - having lived in Japan and South Korea, there won't be a "white people room" - unlike here in the US, if you aren't a local, they don't think about you at all beyond how your upsetting their harmonious balance. No special treatment for you.

Zalman

#41
August 19, 2023, 07:19:38 AM
Quote from: Exploderwizard on August 18, 2023, 06:55:47 AM
Quote from: Thornhammer on August 17, 2023, 10:24:47 PM
Quote from: Thondor on August 15, 2023, 03:19:40 PM
2) WOTC new deck of many things book
-- the deck is apparently created by a Paladin and their Medusa companion by a "new" designer

I'm surprised they're not redoing the Rod of Seven Parts.

Give them time. They will eventually re-make everything in glorious wokeness and the rabid hordes of virtue signaling gamers will stand in lines to buy it.

They'll gender-swap it though, it'll be the Rhonda of Seven Parts.
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RPGPundit

#42
August 23, 2023, 11:19:43 AM Last Edit: August 23, 2023, 11:21:49 AM by RPGPundit
The Rod will have been created by a black disabled transgendered wizard and hir non-binary good-aligned Mindflayer lover, both of whom are retconned into being the greatest heroes in the history of D&D.
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THE_Leopold

#43
August 23, 2023, 11:41:52 AM
Quote from: RPGPundit on August 23, 2023, 11:19:43 AM
The Rod will have been created by a black disabled transgendered wizard and hir non-binary good-aligned Mindflayer lover, both of whom are retconned into being the greatest heroes in the history of D&D.

they will have trained Mordenkainen, Bigby, and Elminster by themselves who , after recieved training at Strixhaven, will then go and declare themselves Allies of said diety and SLAAAAYYY QUEEN in their name.

All the while Gygax and Arneson stand up in their graves and clap.
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