Frustrated rant incoming...
I said it once and I'll say it again - every pastime that is enjoyable is worth gatekeeping. This year has seen a massive influx of nignogs, trannies, & other neurodiverse spastics ruining the hobby of Roleplaying, be it tabletop or p&p. My usage of the word gatekeeping does not entail "keep out of my secret clubhouse", because roleplaying games were always about welcoming any social outcasts, rather its about "keep your dick and/or mental illness out of my secret clubhouse" - a simple request, which, those subhumans just won't do, as they are wont to do...
One of the 2 worst things about it is, that not even the "Get woke etc."-mantra is working, because they are actually getting funded. The other gripe I have is that noone is actually combating those mentally deranged fucks - now, this is mostly the fault of nerds in being too welcoming in general (see Speedrunning, which is now 1/3 Troons). This is a massive mistake, and, looking up to my first point - if you don't protect the hobbies you love, they will get overrun by the current year loons. And once they have infiltrated, they will not leave, or rather force others out that don't adhere to their codices of mental gymnastics:
"How dare you use the wrong pronouns when addressing my wheelchair-bound dwarfen genderfluid mage! GM, I file an official complaint to have this racist/classist/sexist players level capped!"
Now you could say "There there my little Nazi sperg, you play your Dungeons & Goblins, and let others play their Dragons & Moblins, so if you are not actively interacting, noone's being hurt by that" - No, fuck you! The whole industry is being hurt by it, as:
- more and more retards look at the hobby and, finding that they are being welcomed by other freaks and seeing that they can play as a multigendered otherkin pedofile in the newest "Personalized Fetish - the RPG" they will join the hobby, thinking that their little fetish is being welcomed
- the big publishers want to appease the retarded vocal minorites
- whenever there is a crime/drama being uncovered (more on that later), the media/press will never say "Oh, some tranny who posed as a roleplayer acted antisocial at an event", but rather "Roleplayer literally raped another player at a convention - is roleplaying dangerous for your kids? (*no literal rape happened as it was in-game)
Now I said my piece about how and why I find this alarming, both in itself & in general, and to prove that I am not shitting you (and what tipped me over the edge) here is just an excerpt - of the successful funding campaigns, of this year only:
Cities of Myth: Atlantis Divided
"is a 5e compatible system that immerses players in the ancient myths and cultures they love, while updating them with 21st-century representation and renewed narrative. "
"Artwork of an LGBTQ+ wizard couple working together to recreate historical events. (Human School of Technomancy Wizard - she/her, Elf School of Times Past Wizard - She/They)"
- asking for 4k$, received 7700$
Demiverse: A Campaign Setting for 5e & Those Who Wander
"Everything was going more or less as it had for millions of millennia when suddenly the unthinkable happened. The multiverse, uh, kinda exploded. The fractured realities were sent hurtling (fifth-dimensionally) sometimes combining and reforming in a dizzying number of ways.
Once the dust settled, all that remained were demiplanes, strange fragments of reality the largest of which are only a few thousand square miles and the smallest of which is reported to be a five-foot dungeon tile, if you can believe it.
There's plenty to see and do on any one demiplane alone. And each would be completely isolated from the others if not for interplanar gates scattered among them. Those foolhardy enough to travel widely throughout the demiverse will find marvels and dangers in abundance, enough to rival your dreams and fuel your nightmares. One thing such intrepid people would never lack is adventure!"
Now, "That reads strange, but interesting!" I hear you ask - Oh, you, that don't see the horrors I have seen, you are forgiven. Once you have eyes that see you will realize, that just the title, "Demiverse" will strike you as ~ off. Why would you name a roleplaying campaign after something that could be associated with, oh I don't know, demisexual? (Granted, you could also chip in Demigod, but let's see who is right, won't we?)
72% Women or Nonbinary
78% LGBTQA+
62% People of Color or Ethnic Minorities
26% Physically Disabled
42% Neurodiverse
- BTW, the asking goal of 6k$ has already been reached, with 21 days of the campaign still remaining
Coyote & Crow the Role Playing Game
"is a tabletop role playing game set in an alternate future of the Americas where colonization never occurred. Instead, advanced civilizations arose over hundreds of years after a massive climate disaster changed the history of the planet. You'll play as adventurers starting out in the city of Cahokia, a bustling, diverse metropolis along the Mississippi River. It's a world of science and spirituality where the future of technology and legends of the past will collide. "
And, who would've thunk:
We have a diverse team of folks working on this game, most of whom are Native. Additionally, we are striving to bring in other marginalized voices whenever possible. Our team features people from across the LGBTQIA spectrum, including two spirit folks. It's not even a question that this game is political. If you have a problem with a game where there are no people of European descent represented, than this game is probably not for you.
- Fucking Raked In 1 MILLION $
Fat Magic - inspired by PushinUpTiddies
" is a 5e campaign set in a world saturated by delicious and dangerous food magic. It’s packed with more than 250 pages of terrible food puns, off-the-wall culinary adventure, and more kissable hotties than you can shake a carbonated beverage at."
- Those fucking faggots (scroll down the KS page at your own risk) received 40k$, after asking for 20k.
Rat Queens: To the Slaughter
Look at this shit. Just look at it. And they got 340.000!
Cursed Captains of Cthulhu
I know, I just know, simply by looking at the teaser image with a swashbuckling pirate negress, that this shitty game will be woke up the ass. And, wouldn't you know, scrolling to the last third of the campaign page, to see who is responsible for this Lovecraftian cash grab, the made-up pronouns start amassing. Of course, invoking Kufulus name means they got some 30k$
The Bard Chronicles: A Dungeons and Dragons Rap Album
- Nigger stealing 10k$ from Kikestarter sycophants
"I see D&D as a really big, really important part of my life. I grew up black and "gifted" in an area where there weren't a lot of other people like me. We'll go with "a lot of the other kids' parents didn't like me and I didn't know why" - you get it. "
Wow, even the whitest and dorkiest of niggers is still using the race card to beg for money. "I grew up black". Wow. Imagine any white person typing this as an opener.
Which leads us to...
Into the Mother Lands - An Original Afrofuturist TTRPG
YES! Finally, I can be rid of my white guilt! I want to be pegged by an anthro-hyenas clit while getting all the BBC in my mouth I can fit!
This Star Drek/Wakanda Slashfic raked in 340.000$ also.
Monsters of Murka: Chromatic Gamut
Want your eyes raped? I know you do:
Dreampunk: a surreal TTRPG
"A player-driven tabletop roleplaying game about shaping and confronting a strange dreamworld, played using surreal art cards. "
Another case of "So what? Where's the mental illness at? This looks totally normal" - Call it intuition, call it a curse, but sure enough, the author reveals itself/manyself:
I'm Xavid (they/them), a plural genderqueer game designer and software engineer. I've written award-winning LARPs and interactive fiction and have been hacking on tabletop RPGs for over a decade. I previously successfully Kickstarted an annotated translation of a 17th-century book of Japanese heraldry. (Voice, eat your heart out).
SHASN: AZADI - What Will Freedom Cost?
"Ignite the Revolution. Topple the Imperials. Emerge as the leader of your nation. A semi-coop retelling of rebellion through the ages."
I didn't delve into it, but the title alone reeks of either Derka Derka Muhammejihad! or Marxist propaganda
Also, there are the sandnigger/Injun creators:
Flabbergasted! A comedic tabletop RPG
"set in the roaring 20s! Join a social club & get up to mischief & mayhem - all before your afternoon tea!"
>Roaring 20's
>Successful Nigger PCs
Checks out
SPECIAL BONUS:
The drama I was mentioning before the FailStarter Roundup. When you let a faggot like this