Not all �#OSR� rulesets are just "B/x clones". My own OSR rules in Lion & Dragon / Baptism of Fire have very specific & radical differences.
Also, is Zak S making a comeback?
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IMHO Zak is a pretentious Cunt who acts like an asshole most of the time and then as an innocent victim when anyone throws his own shit back at him.

That being said, cancelling him for that is IMO not Kosher, good for Raggi for hiring the cunt. Here's hoping he doesn't regret it due to said asshole throwing him under the bus, because he does love a cancellation as long as it's not his own.

Zak admitted to taking money for work and then refusing to deliver here on this forum and then tried to defend it saying the guy that contracted him was a Nazi.  He may have some talent but he's an amoral scumbag and a bit dim.

Zak, if you have an ounce of sense you'd STFU publicly about everything except your products and sit this thread out.

Eh I don't really care either way.  I think both Zak S and James Raggi are pieces of crap and I never plan on buying anything from either of them so Zak can do whatever he wants. 

It seems like at this point Zak's problems as far as a comeback tour is concerned is that its not just the Woke who despise him; a lot of the people who bought his books back in the day, most of whom don't believe that Zak was guilty of anything, still won't want to buy his book.

Zak is basically the perfect rpg.net poster; his scorn for we problematics is palpable in any opinion piece he's written.  But he will never again walk those golden halls now that he is outcast and unclean to them.  So half of the audience detests him, and he detests the other half.  Not a whole lot of people left with that math.  The righties here will at least occasionally buy the work of a lefty if it's of good quality, but there's zero chance of any of his preferred pronouns buying the work.  To even glance its way would catch them a ban off big purple.

Quote from: GhostNinja on August 04, 2024, 09:21:34 AMEh I don't really care either way.  I think both Zak S and James Raggi are pieces of crap and I never plan on buying anything from either of them so Zak can do whatever he wants. 

I have high regard for Raggi. He pays his contractors pretty well, produces high quality (Physically) books, and if the aesthetic is to your taste he produces high quality content as well. And he mostly stood by a contractor/friend (Zak) when the angry mob was after the guy and there was no actual proof which is pretty stand up.
Zak on the other hand. He is an angry fellow who appears to have been friends/coworkers with a few of his anonymous attackers (if that leaked interview thing is to be believed) which I think says a lot about Karma. If that interview thing was fake, but Zak is pushing it as real and thus implicating his old friends and coworkers that says even worse things about him. I guess the third option is Zak doesn't think the interview thing is real, and it isn't real, and he's so prickly nobody but Raggi stood up to defend him which also says a lot about him.

The article is real but it sounds like you might've just skimmed it.

The article, the audio files (with the Dr's voice), and interviewees Olivia Hill, Patrick Stuart and Brian Yaksha admitting they talked to her are all here.

Quote from: Zak S on August 05, 2024, 04:55:45 PMThe article is real but it sounds like you might've just skimmed it.

The article, the audio files (with the Dr's voice), and interviewees Olivia Hill, Patrick Stuart and Brian Yaksha admitting they talked to her are all here.

I read it, I listened to the audio files, I believe it was true. I was just providing all the options as I see it.

Quote from: Ruprecht on August 05, 2024, 09:30:48 AMI have high regard for Raggi. He pays his contractors pretty well, produces high quality (Physically) books, and if the aesthetic is to your taste he produces high quality content as well. And he mostly stood by a contractor/friend (Zak) when the angry mob was after the guy and there was no actual proof which is pretty stand up.

That's fine.  I am not telling anyone what they should or shouldn't buy, I am simply saying that Raggi and Zak are on my blacklist (along with a few other designers) for the way they act and are people who will never get money from me.

Quote from: GhostNinja on August 05, 2024, 08:32:10 PM

Quote from: Ruprecht on August 05, 2024, 09:30:48 AMI have high regard for Raggi. He pays his contractors pretty well, produces high quality (Physically) books, and if the aesthetic is to your taste he produces high quality content as well. And he mostly stood by a contractor/friend (Zak) when the angry mob was after the guy and there was no actual proof which is pretty stand up.

That's fine.  I am not telling anyone what they should or shouldn't buy, I am simply saying that Raggi and Zak are on my blacklist (along with a few other designers) for the way they act and are people who will never get money from me.

What has Raggi ever done to invoke your ire?

Quote from: S'mon on August 08, 2024, 08:54:15 AM

Quote from: GhostNinja on August 05, 2024, 08:32:10 PM

Quote from: Ruprecht on August 05, 2024, 09:30:48 AMI have high regard for Raggi. He pays his contractors pretty well, produces high quality (Physically) books, and if the aesthetic is to your taste he produces high quality content as well. And he mostly stood by a contractor/friend (Zak) when the angry mob was after the guy and there was no actual proof which is pretty stand up.

That's fine.  I am not telling anyone what they should or shouldn't buy, I am simply saying that Raggi and Zak are on my blacklist (along with a few other designers) for the way they act and are people who will never get money from me.

What has Raggi ever done to invoke your ire?

Apart from showing his tits

Quote from: RPGPundit on August 08, 2024, 05:38:54 PMApart from showing his tits

Yeah, talking about reinforcing the bad stereotypes attached to gamers.

I admire Jim's stance on anti-censorship within the gaming sphere.

Has any of his latest products been subject to censorship from Drivthru, does anyone know (I'm not referring to any of the zak stuff)?

Ta'

Quote from: Rob Necronomicon on August 08, 2024, 08:07:33 PMI admire Jim's stance on anti-censorship within the gaming sphere.

Has any of his latest products been subject to censorship from Drivthru, does anyone know (I'm not referring to any of the zak stuff)?

Ta'

I specifically talk about that in the video.