Basements & Beards- Analogue Gaming Thread

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Why does his ancestor have horns as well, when everyone (and their ancestor) is using dark Incan magic to morph into the most special of snowflakes?
Maybe he's a leftover of the colonizers and Non-Europeans all have horns? But then what gives him the right to culturally-appropriate native necromancy?

>Satine Phoenix

Who would've guessed that a stripper and porn star would create drama in whatever industry she weasels her way into?

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

>implying the guy knows enough about his own allegeded culture to know what a Macuahuitl is

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

It's the only non-problematic way to draw a male who's not a twink. As soon as they have any measure of muscle and/or weight on them they have to look as gay and non-threatening as possible.

Males only ever being some kind of twink or bear is a sure-fire way to know if a RPG is deeply infested with wokeism.
Especially when every light-skinned person has some kind of non-standard skin color/tone so the artists never have to draw an actual white person. Like this jaundice-looking Iron Bull.

*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

This should become easier once the actual Kickstarter starts, since these pretty much always feature mugshots of the stunningly brave and diverse creators, as well as their pronuns.
They better have a lot of zirs, xirs and theys in their lineup, what with how much the setting obsesses over the tumblr perception of gender.

[wulfenlord]

Regarding having the moral high ground of being primitive ooga booga tribes noble natives enslaved by wypeepo, didn't the campaign teaser for Into Wakanda feature the story of one expedition of Mansa Munsa literally being sucked away into another galaxy, where they pillaged and colonized for some thousand years themselves?

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

When they adertized this as "play as black people who have never experienced slavery and colonization", they weren't talking about the alien natives
Though this wouldn't be proper wokeist hypocrisy without double-standards when it comes to colonization. Only *white* people count as colonizers. Anyone else just, like, gets along.

Even this Ogaboo setting apparently has good colonizers, who I assume to be black people. You always need black people in your woke fantasy setting, even if that setting is based on a place other than Africa.

[wulfenlord]

In a hitherto unseen Jesse Jackson ass-kissing + rimming session, D&D Exec Kyle Brink is slobbering big black balls and choking on logs like the goodest of cucks :3



For anyone too lazy, which is understandable, here is the chunkiest nugget

https://youtu.be/mPDc3DVHwKo?t=2900

Normally I'm against paraphrasing, but this is just too good to pass up:
White CIS het males can't leave the hobby soon enough

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

I'd say he should take the stunning and brave first step :3

Though I don't think they will have much success at beating Paizo when it comes to pandering to the woke crowd. That OGL disaster will haunt them for a long time, and even a SJW can't help but notice that WotC's main solution to fix "problematic" text passages in their books is to delete said passages with no replacement (instead of, I dunno, coming up with shit), or shitting out a lazy "These not-gypsies are beloved by all UwU" (nevermind that they're still not-gypsies and therefore problematic).

Also interesting in context: Hasbro's greed for short-term gain is damaging WotC's cash cow brands

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

WotC: "We want more diversity! We can't wait to get rid of all these white people!"
Also WotC: "Let's fire all of our Latinos!"

[wulfenlord]

That's their own fault for not being trans or neurodivergent, since they are basically white-passing on the oppression scale.

[Le Redditeur]

I'm not surprised. Magic the Gathering is prohibitively expensive in Brazil, and the localized D&D books are even more expensive (to a point into which I bought the English 4th Edition box cheaper than the localized version). No wonder they're closing shop here.

And I'm willing to bet this pronouns cunt didn't do any favours on "managing content" for the Brazilian audiences. Absolutely nobody cares about that shit here, since our country is a corrupt and violent shithole. Pronouns are worthless when you're getting mugged by crackhead to get your smartphone.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

What I assume to be a White Ally (tm) started a petition to demand a revision of the Orcs of Thar Gazetteer

A supplement.
Which is exceedingly silly as one should realize from all the puns found within (there's a "Trollhattan", ffs).
From 1988.
Written for a dead edition (Basic D&D).
And a dead setting (Mystara).

And some shucklefuck demands a public apology and a revised version of this product because the orcs are racist caricatures or something.

Hasbro says that, from an in-world perspective, the human "Mongolian" culture gained their culture and religion by ignorantly imitating these "yellow orcs" and Asian hobgoblins.

Are you high or something? Hasbro doesn't "say" anything because the book came out decades before Hasbro acquired the license.
And this isn't the only time he confused shit. All accusations in the petition basically amounts to "Hasbro commits wrongthink". Even though Hasbro had no hand in anything related to this book.

Also it's the other way around. Mystaran orcs copy their human neighbors, because they tend to get their asses kicked by them and try to get some of that human badassery.

Hasbro refers to the"Khan" leader of these East Asian orcs as "the Yellow Demon." Which is insensitively close to the real-world phrase "the Yellow Peril" (aka Yellow Terror, Yellow Specter).

Basically any time the books writes "The Yellow [thing]", it's racist

Hasbro's product also features "red orcs" whose culture is explicitly based on Native American motifs. The term "red orc" is based on the real-world racial slur "red man."

Oh, make that "The [color] [thing]"
And hang on a second. I thought orcs were only supposed to be black people? How come they're so diverse here?

These "red orcs" engage in "scalping," which Hasbro says they learned from a neighboring human nation, which is itself also based on real-world Native American culture.

So... scalping was an invention by white people? I didn't cut anything from this complaint. Dude just doesn't want to be reminded of scalping, apparently.

Hasbro parodies the assassinated Lakota leader Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake as "Big Chief Sitting Drool."

Sure, they're celebrating his assassination. This is totally not a low-effort pun or anything

Hasbro hurtfully adapts the real-world racist proverb "the only good Indian is a dead Indian" as: "The golden rule: A Good Orc is a Dead Orc."

You do know that Mystaran orcs have literally been created by evil gods who want them to kill everyone else?

Hasbro also parodies Arab, Persian, Turkish, and Islamic culture by applying those cultural motifs to the monstrous gnolls (hyena-persons) of "South Gnollistan." The leader of the gnolls is named "Nizam Pasha," whose name comes from a Turkish historical figure, Nazım Pasha, who was assassinated during WWI.

Naming a fictional character after a historical one is problematic and racist because...?

Hasbro slanders as "Desert Bums" a human culture which is explicitly based on real-world Arab, Egyptian, Syrian, Persian, and Uzbek cultures, and the Islamic religion.

That's from an ironic orc map. Of course they'd make fun of their hated neighbors.

And you want an apology from Hasbro? May I remind you of the little copypasta at the end of every description of every digital D&D book from before 5th edition?

We (Wizards) recognize that some of the legacy content available on this website does not reflect the values of the Dungeons & Dragons franchise today. Some older content may reflect ethnic, racial, and gender prejudice that were commonplace in American society at that time. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. This content is presented as it was originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed. Dungeons & Dragons teaches that diversity is a strength, and we strive to make our D&D products as welcoming and inclusive as possible. This part of our work will never end.

They'd probably rather just delist this product before bothering to "fix" it, seeing how these "demands" basically call for a complete rewrite.
But they probably won't delist it. If they start with one book more will follow, and they kinda need their large back catalogue for that sweet monetization that they crave.

[wulfenlord]

In a similar retarded train of thought we could demand of Olaf Scholz to rewrite Mein Kampf because he's the current successor, or that pope Francis prints a new edition of Urban 2nds call for a crusade

And for sure this is a pea-brained white ally. His political/philosophical musings on Kikebook remind me of Credo in Deums shitposts