There's no Alt-Right" OSR, Just Leftists Calling Everyone Nazis

Emperor Norton · June 05, 2018, 09:03:11 PM

Ok, but what don't they like about here.

Franky · June 05, 2018, 09:04:08 PM

Quote from: EOTB;1042303True Black Raven is another sock puppet for Perilous Dreamer/Crimhthan the Great/Llauranela/TGM1975/ETC/ETC/ETC. That post is a carbon copy of other like posts said person has posted for years on DF and elsewhere.

I've seen this same thing said by a moderator at ODD74 in reference to an account under the name Jakob Grimm. There is a whole forum of these socks. Ruins of Murkhill. They "talk" to one another. Truly a bizarre thing, and more than a little bit sad.

Warboss Squee · June 05, 2018, 09:04:20 PM

Quote from: Azraele;1042422

God I want this quote burned into stratum of the internet.

Also, Emperor Norton; Don't feel like this board is a hotbed of radical jackasses. That's not been my experience with it; this is an unaccustomed discussion between adults who love elfgames. Something that used to happen frequently when the majority of social interaction was in real life. It's anachronistic and sometimes insulting, but more genuine (and much more accepting in my experience) than any other elfgame forum I've encountered.

Also Hi. I put a trans character in my kung-fu game because I have a trans friend. Here's the several-hundred-dollar commission of her tribute character I had drawn up to accompany the statblock:

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So yeah. There are some radically inclusive modern games being made that *aren't* political statements. Living proof. I made this character for my friend because I wanted her to have a cool sci-fi courtier to play. It just stuck through the playtest all the way to release.

If you didn't tell me, I wouldn't know.

Then again, I have heard fuckwits railing against "passing privilege".

Warboss Squee · June 05, 2018, 09:06:07 PM

Quote from: Emperor Norton;1042424Ok, but what don't they like about here.

That this site is mostly D&D related. Nothing wrong with that, imo.

Krimson · June 05, 2018, 09:06:44 PM

Quote from: Emperor Norton;1042421Go in the other direction. I read a part in Tome of Foes. Corellon Larethian gives a blessing to some elves that lets them switch genders if they choose to. Huh. Neat. Thought nothing of it really. I messaged my son because it sounded like something he would like. Next day, go to jump back on some forums because I plan to start running a game soon. I've been super busy with work, and while I have played in some games, I haven't run a game in probably about a year or two.

And here are the people exclaiming how this is all SJW pandering. How it is changing everything just to virtue signal. About how SJWs are ruining D&D.

You can dislike people like those on the TBP without making more enemies of people who just think its pretty neat to see people like them represented in D&D.

This villain or villains I mentioned earlier have been gender fluid since 1972.

Emperor Norton · June 05, 2018, 09:09:37 PM

Quote from: Warboss Squee;1042427That this site is mostly D&D related. Nothing wrong with that, imo.

I'm pretty sure that a good many D&D players are women. Literally one of the D&D campaigns I'm playing in right now is all women except me. My wife is playing in another one that is all women. The game she played in before that, with an entirely different other group, was also all women.

Azraele · June 05, 2018, 09:12:29 PM

Quote from: Warboss Squee;1042427That this site is mostly D&D related. Nothing wrong with that, imo.

Tulpa Girl posts here still.

I know in the case of my wife, it's because despite really enjoying D&D, she doesn't really enjoy talking about it online.

Same reason I'm not a member of literature or economics forums. I talk about and enjoy those subjects in real life, but... I don't really have a burning need to discuss them online.

Krimson · June 05, 2018, 09:13:53 PM

Quote from: Emperor Norton;1042429I'm pretty sure that a good many D&D players are women. Literally one of the D&D campaigns I'm playing in right now is all women except me. My wife is playing in another one that is all women. The game she played in before that, with an entirely different other group, was also all women.

I've had a much easier time getting women interested in Star Wars, though I have been in D&D groups with gender parity. Heck I once GMed a group of women from the Star Wars Fan Force, who were in full Jedi attire. They may have been a little disturbed by my wearing a Darth Vader helmet.

Crawford Tillinghast · June 05, 2018, 09:19:13 PM

Quote from: Doc Sammy;1042396The Gomer Pyle thing was a reference to Full Metal Jacket, not Jim Nabors being gay.

Not getting it.

We're going to throw him and blanket party and then he'll shoot the DI?

Warboss Squee · June 05, 2018, 09:20:51 PM

Quote from: Emperor Norton;1042429I'm pretty sure that a good many D&D players are women. Literally one of the D&D campaigns I'm playing in right now is all women except me. My wife is playing in another one that is all women. The game she played in before that, with an entirely different other group, was also all women.

Quote from: Azraele;1042430Tulpa Girl posts here still.

I know in the case of my wife, it's because despite really enjoying D&D, she doesn't really enjoy talking about it online.

Same reason I'm not a member of literature or economics forums. I talk about and enjoy those subjects in real life, but... I don't really have a burning need to discuss them online.

Either of you knobs pass reading comprehension? They're not primarily D&D players. So they went to forums that do cater to the games they like, the FFG boards for example.

You both jumped on that as if I said girls don't d&d. Knee jerk jagoffs.

Warboss Squee · June 05, 2018, 09:26:54 PM

Quote from: Krimson;1042431I've had a much easier time getting women interested in Star Wars, though I have been in D&D groups with gender parity. Heck I once GMed a group of women from the Star Wars Fan Force, who were in full Jedi attire. They may have been a little disturbed by my wearing a Darth Vader helmet.

Star Wars has something that the vast majority of ttrpgs lack.

A successful franchise. Never played a SW game? Bet you've seen a movie, or one of tge cartoons or played obe of the 9 quadrillion games out there.

Way easier to get into that universe, than any d&d setting, in my experience. Hell, my buddy's wife jumped into SW after he explained, "yes, you can be like Ahsoka and Shaak Ti."

Azraele · June 05, 2018, 09:27:40 PM

Quote from: Warboss Squee;1042433Either of you knobs pass reading comprehension? They're not primarily D&D players. So they went to forums that do cater to the games they like, the FFG boards for example.

You both jumped on that as if I said girls don't d&d. Knee jerk jagoffs.

I actually wasn't responding to you (self-important much?). But, since you failed to comprehend what I wrote, I will delight in savoring the irony of your post.

Mmm... Delicious

Warboss Squee · June 05, 2018, 09:30:43 PM

Quote from: Azraele;1042435I actually wasn't responding to you (self-important much?). But, since you failed to comprehend what I wrote, I will delight in savoring the irony of your post.

Mmm... Delicious

Self important? You quoted me. Why wouldn't I think it was a response to what I wrote?

Ewan · June 05, 2018, 09:32:27 PM

RE sex-shifting elves:

That might be cool to use with Holmes-style class shifters. When the elf is a fighting-man he is male. When a magic-user, female.

Azraele · June 05, 2018, 09:33:47 PM

Quote from: Warboss Squee;1042436Self important? You quoted me. Why wouldn't I think it was a response to what I wrote?

Wow I totally did. Yup, that's on me.

(I NEED to stop posting drunk...)