Remathilis
Legend
I use some DMs Guild and homebrew, mostly for monsters or class options, to augment (rather than replace) WotCs stuff.
I think there's a weird generational thing, where the way folks are introduced to RPGs is different. Back then, the very rulebooks told you to home-brew the crap out of it. Now there's this weird cult of "officialdom". Literally, a label is all that matters - I guess branding works. It's very contrary to the spirit of RPGs as I grew up with them, and I feel it is damaging them immeasurably. RPGs have gone from punk rock to Disneyland.
I think there's a weird generational thing, where the way folks are introduced to RPGs is different. Back then, the very rulebooks told you to home-brew the crap out of it. Now there's this weird cult of "officialdom". Literally, a label is all that matters - I guess branding works. It's very contrary to the spirit of RPGs as I grew up with them, and I feel it is damaging them immeasurably. RPGs have gone from punk rock to Disneyland.
Here are a couple of quotes that show why I am representing that claim in the way that I am, with bold added by me for emphsis:I don't know what other thread that is, but I think there's a risk you're not representing that claim correctly.
The part I omitted doesn't actually change the part I kept in the quote and addressed because...After all, you cut Shiroiken off before he could say this:
What I was discussing with Shiroiken before you interjected your assumptive accusations that I was doing something wrong is why this poll was phrased in the way that was being called problematic. Because the poll isn't problematic, it's just specifically testing a claim that was made (and quoted above - it's the second bolded portion of the first quote presented) rather than seeking to figure out which sort of non-official material it is that people are using or which side of the DM screen that non-official material gets used on.So, again, what are we really discussing here?
That's possibly part of the issue. But OP was always a thing, and always was official only. We're more aware of it, but I'm not certain *that* many more people are playing organized play.I do not remember what it was like back in the days of the RPGA, but in recent years, with Pathfinder Society and Adventurer's League only allowing their company's material, and many players maybe only getting to play through these organizations, that kind of mindset can stick with these players and DMs when they get to finally have a non-Organized Play game.