Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
Curse you for making me give Xp to a Paladin-positive comment.
I am at peace. For now I have seen everything.
Curse you for making me give Xp to a Paladin-positive comment.
(An earlier post provided the link for John Dodd's statement. Here it is again: http://millionwordman.blogspot.com/2019/06/on-inappropriate-content-in-games-and.html)
Again, if this is news to you: then YOU are the one tossing around accusations - accusations of mob mentality - without basing your accusation on the available information.
This seems less like devils advocate and more like lampooning or charicature.
Whats missing is the host of other negatives involved with serving time. Whats missing is that the gm is not being told he cannot gm again, just cons deciding they dont want him gming at their events.
This is more akin to a retailer they dont want to hire a known thief to do their money deliveries at any of their stores.
Man, the lengths folks will go for this is amazing.
just so I can see your reactions and apparently because some gaming company put me up to it.
Uhhh... Huh...
So, the only thing really concrete is that since it was posted mature the players shoulda known better and been expecting sonething like this might be on the menu and just took it in stride, maybe left?
Got it.
I hereby direct you to post #213, in this thread. You can find post #213 on your own, right? Did you skip past it on the way here? If so, then take your allegations of "rushing to judgement without full information", and apply them directly to yourself.
That post includes a link, and it also quotes a player in that game, recounting how Rolfe told the players that the PCs had been "raped for many many hours. Then he introduced our rapists, who weren’t even part of the story (not that that would have made it better or anything). They then told us they wanted to see us run, that they would give us 10 mins before catching up to us and raping us again and again."
I recommend that you not repeat your assertion that this player, and his fellow players in that game, were "over-reacting", because mods have discouraged blaming the victims.
You could try to argue that this player was lying... but that argument would involve ALSO stipulating that John Dodd was lying, in the blog post where he says "My investigation was swift and through" and "In the two days that followed, I spoke to all but one of the people who played in that game".
(An earlier post provided the link for John Dodd's statement. Here it is again: http://millionwordman.blogspot.com/2019/06/on-inappropriate-content-in-games-and.html)
Again, if this is news to you: then YOU are the one tossing around accusations - accusations of mob mentality - without basing your accusation on the available information.
Since I find myself typing then deleting my own responses, cuz I think what I want to say would violate forum policy, I think that's a good sign I should step away from this thread and leave it to you.No, I am saying glven that it was tagged mature, it makes it a lot more likely this was a case of people going in with differing expectations. It suggests the GM was not trying surprise people with something out of bounds, and more that the GM had a different sense of what was within the boundaries. In terms of the players reactions, I would apply the same level of caution to assessing that as I would to assessing the GM. I wasn't there and so I don't know how things played out in real time. But I can see a case where this is an overreaction (I can also see where it would possibly be an under reaction or an appropriate reaction). But the fact that it was tagged mature, to me is a very important detail.
then I sure hope you never run a games convention.