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The least woke major RPG publishers

Started by Lurtch, November 18, 2018, 10:21:37 AM

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S'mon

#45
July 11, 2020, 07:03:39 PM
Quote from: 1989;1139158I am resurrecting this thread from 2018 for up-to-date recommendations on non-woke RPG publishers.

I was sad to see Swords and Wizardry succumb to wokeness with their new Core Rulebook cover art from the all-female art team led by "a pansexual genderqueer/fluid person who prefers the pronouns of 'they/them/their'."

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/froggodgames/swords-and-wizardry-complete-rulebook-3rd-printing

Is the core book with this cover art even still available? I cannot find it on Frog God's website or DriveThru RPG. Maybe they decided it was a bad idea, after all?

Eh, the monster they created unsurprisingly turned on them. I'm pretty sure they realised it was a bad idea when she (Stacey) was Cancelling them.
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Mjollnir

#46
July 11, 2020, 08:36:16 PM
Judges Guild for the boomerific win.

1989

#47
July 11, 2020, 09:46:45 PM
Quote from: S'mon;1139176Eh, the monster they created unsurprisingly turned on them. I'm pretty sure they realised it was a bad idea when she (Stacey) was Cancelling them.

Hmmm, I must have missed that part. Interesting. Do you have a link for this?

Jason Coplen

#48
July 11, 2020, 10:20:07 PM
Quote from: 1989;1139158I am resurrecting this thread from 2018 for up-to-date recommendations on non-woke RPG publishers.

I was sad to see Swords and Wizardry succumb to wokeness with their new Core Rulebook cover art from the all-female art team led by "a pansexual genderqueer/fluid person who prefers the pronouns of 'they/them/their'."

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/froggodgames/swords-and-wizardry-complete-rulebook-3rd-printing

Is the core book with this cover art even still available? I cannot find it on Frog God's website or DriveThru RPG. Maybe they decided it was a bad idea, after all?

That and Frog God are way liberal.
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S'mon

#49
July 12, 2020, 03:00:53 AM
Quote from: 1989;1139208Hmmm, I must have missed that part. Interesting. Do you have a link for this?

https://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?40467-Frog-God-Games-is-Suing-Christopher-Helton-Price-amp-Dellorfano-too!&highlight=Stacey
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Armchair Gamer

#50
July 12, 2020, 09:05:08 AM
Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;1065253I stay away from The Design Mechanism as well.

  What's wrong with the Design Mechanism? John Snead's work tends to left-wing silliness in spots (Stalin turning the USSR into a capitalist dictatorship? Really?), but I haven't seen anything in corporate policy.

  For the original question, Troll Lord Games is pretty apolitical, and their core line is problematic for the Hard Progressives by virtue of its name alone. :)

Spinachcat

#51
July 12, 2020, 09:43:37 PM
Palladium is 20 years behind the industry in many ways, and in this case, it's a boon.  

Zero wokeness, but with cool powerful female NPCs.

S'mon

#52
July 13, 2020, 01:48:26 AM
Quote from: Spinachcat;1139398Palladium is 20 years behind the industry in many ways, and in this case, it's a boon.  

Zero wokeness

My Runelords game uses Paizo stuff from 2007-2012; currently City of Strangers from 2009/10. The lack of wokeness is almost eerie at times - it's easy to forget Paizo were once a normal games company. Of course now the media is pushing extreme wokeness on our entire society. Wonder if Paizo will be putting warnings on their pre-2012 product.
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1989

#53
July 13, 2020, 10:12:07 AM
Quote from: S'mon;1139417My Runelords game uses Paizo stuff from 2007-2012; currently City of Strangers from 2009/10. The lack of wokeness is almost eerie at times - it's easy to forget Paizo were once a normal games company. Of course now the media is pushing extreme wokeness on our entire society. Wonder if Paizo will be putting warnings on their pre-2012 product.

I always hated Paizo for their overuse of Wayne Reynolds art. (Can't stand that style)

Snark Knight

#54
July 13, 2020, 10:31:38 AM
FFG never seemed especially woke when they were still producing RPGs. Nothing of theirs I ever read made me raise an eyebrow and they still seem to be publishing them so I guess that counts?

GameDaddy

#55
July 13, 2020, 11:24:50 AM
Quote from: S'mon;1139176Eh, the monster they created unsurprisingly turned on them. I'm pretty sure they realised it was a bad idea when she (Stacey) was Cancelling them.

Interestingly this year, she turned on GaryCon as well and announced a competing RPG convention the very same weekend as GaryCon was scheduled for. Then everything got cancelled, like a week before the show due to the Coronavirus. We then hosted a virtual convention online that featured almost seven hundred events and had over two thousand gamers registered to attend. It was successful, although not what we had originally envisioned. Stacey of course hosted an online convention as well. No clue how many events they had registered, or how many attended. I'm thinking a few dozen people attended that based on the post-con chatter on Fakebook, and other forums.
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GameDaddy

#56
July 13, 2020, 11:29:25 AM
Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;1065419Mindjammer is played by a lot of latent SJWs. They're the same crowd that idolize Iain Banks and Kim Stanley Robinson.

I actually like Mindjammer, it's a great game. Wasn't aware Sarah Newton had any sjw political preferences.
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1989

#57
July 13, 2020, 11:53:11 AM
Dungeon Crawl Classics is drinking the Kool-Aid, as well: #BLM

https://goodman-games.com/blog/2020/06/03/imagine-better-worlds/

What a sad time this is.

1989

#58
July 13, 2020, 11:56:14 AM
Even Dungeon Crawl Classics is drinking the Woke Kool-Aid with #Black Lives Matter propaganda.

https://goodman-games.com/blog/2020/06/03/imagine-better-worlds/

Shame on you white folk for not caring about Black Lives.

What a sad time this is.

Which company can you count on to take your money and not bend the knee to the increasing demands of Wokeness?

Trond

#59
July 13, 2020, 12:51:08 PM
Quote from: Aglondir;1065193In the last few years, they haven't done much: Champions Complete (which was good) and Fantasy Hero Complete (not so much.) Tbe rest of their output has been reprinting thier back catalog from previous editions (there's a great deal right now on Bundle of Holding, if this interests you) and a couple of Kickstarters.

Looked these up. Pardon me for sidetracking the thread, but what is going on in these covers?


Smiling and setting off fire bolts in seemingly random directions. Seems a bit unhinged both psychologically and artistically.


This is technically more competent, but what's up with all the smiling and laughing again? Are they high and partying on top of the dragon?
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