Basements & Beards- Analogue Gaming Thread

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

I'm pretty sure Hasbro has hired the nimrods who have come up with this for WotC (former Microsoft yokels with no actual experience of the tabletop industry), and there's some seat shuffling between Hasbro and WotC because the former isn't really an independent company and the rise of D&D thanks to 5e - coupled with Magic falling a bit out of grace - has caused some WotC employees to get "upgraded" to Hasbro ones.

[Kugelfisch]

There is no functional difference between Faggots of Seattle and Fagbro. There hasnt been anyone sensible in charge at Jizzards for a good ten years or so.

It's a lot like the tired and untrue defence of Blizzard by claiming all the bad shit was ordered by Activision, ignoring that just about anyone that isn't a useless or harmful piece of shit has left Blizzard between Diabler 2 and 3 and those that stuck around longer didn't have a say.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Paizo has stealthily allied itself with several major 3rd party publishers in order to cuck WotC once again.
This time, they're working on a replacement of the OGL known as the ORC License

WotC's damage control is currently focused on calling the OGL 1.1 the OGL 2.0 instead.

[wulfenlord]

Jizzards of the West Coast to leave OGL1.0a alone

Now, is this some 5D chess move? Propose a change that enrages every communist blogger with a shrine to Richard Stallmann, then get patted on the back as a progressive company that listens to feedback? Spineless backpedaling? Or just company tactics to keep the mob occupied with minor changes so they can still roll out the other changes as planned?

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

It's backpedaling. Daddy Hasbro has poured millions into trying to make D&D a lifestyle brand, with that Marvel-ripoff of a movie just a few months away and a shitshow of a virtual tabletop D&D edition in the works for next year (a glorified Roll20 with less features and subscription fees of up to 30 bucks a month). They can't risk the bad publicity they got from pissing off not only their fanbase, but the entire rest of the industry.
These fuckers couldn't even appease their woke target audience by trying to gaslight them with "We're only trying to keep the evil nazis out of D&D".
Though I would say the damage has already been done. The current heads of WotC have shown that they can't be trusted with licenses, no matter how enduring they may seem.

It is nice however that they re-released the 5th edition under the Creative Commons license. No one's gonna touch the 1.0a anymore after this shitshow. They tried to cancel it before. Who says they won't try again?

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Woke Warhammer FRPG retroclone publisher is apparently shutting down. This is what you fucking deserve for hiring Chelsea Van Valkenberg
Also apparently they were gonna publish Into the Motherlands? The Space Wakanda thing whose actual rules system is still a mystery ton non-backers (afaik)? Does this mean they settled on some Warhammer FRP derivative, since this is all this publisher does?



But it might be a bit early to celebrate just yet. The original founder Daniel D. Fox (who got banned from multiple RPG forums for autistically promoting his retroclone and was responsible for shutting down the internet's largest RPG pirate site) has left the company a while ago and migth still be up to no good.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Presenting the newest woke grift: Koboa - South American Fantasy Setting

>"all-star" team of non-white writers and artists

You can tell this is purely aimed at ignorant - and probably *white* - Burgers.

• I have a hunch that a good chunk of these South American team members where born and raised in the States
• This becomes even more obvious as this book is primarily written in English. Who knows if this will ever get a Spanish or Portugese translation
• Trying to wow people with a South American RPG is a bit silly when Brazil alone has been making dumb weebshit for decades

The setting is also highly reductive. Similar grifts like Coyote & Crow and Into the Motherlands (should that ever come out) try to fantasize a stunning and brave world where colonization never happened, so the group can jerk off at roleplaying in the brave new world that could have been if only White Man never happened.
Here on the other hand Fantasy South America still got colonized by Fantasy Spain. They got driven back, of course, not only after a few centuries so the stunning and brave natives can still claim victim status and blaim white people for all the ills of the setting.

They also try to finally "solve" the problematic problem that is "races in tabletop RPG" by turning their setting into a transhuman fantasy nightmare where everyone can change their body however they like.
Judging by the art, this mostly seems to result in everyone looking like a black person and/or some kind of fugly fairy faggot.
I also don't think this will be conductive to good roleplaying. How are players supposed to imagine a busy market square if there's no guideline on how anyone looks? Will anyone even bother to remember just how exactly the rest of the party looks like?

Also the savages of Fantasy South America where so noble they had no concept of gender or sexuality until the Heteronormativity Nation attacked.

I hope this fucking link worksShow

[Kugelfisch]

>using gender and sexuality to force conformity
The just love accusing the other side of their own crimes.

[wulfenlord]

Wow, what a diverse team*, 3 pansy *white* child molesters and one "Sarah Wilson once she hits the wall in 5 years". And of course on their own Twatter bios they are all award-winning entepreneurs, while their pinned status is the most Obskaren Lupa drama lama-shit

*tu pac fare, it was quite the task to pinpoint the actual developer of said travesty RPG, because this woke publisher sure as hell isn't promoting them

Here, gaze at the proud south american incel-equivalent (which makes me wonder if instead of owning a Katana, he brandishes a Macuahuitl):

*addendum: of course the games concept art has to feature the maximum gay tumblrite iron bull art vomited on digital paper imaginable

[Kugelfisch]

I bet that mutt is asshurt to the max that he's the result of those evil Spaniard colonisers raping and killing those native South Americans into extinction.