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Maybe Cyberpunk Red hasn’t taken the same turn yet, but a lot of modern Shadowrun PCs are just doing jobs for various corps as only decently paid cogs in the machine. The punk robin hooding part of it has fallen by the wayside.

I think one of the major improvements that Blades in the Dark makes over PbTA is the explicit assigning of stakes and position, giving more guidance to the consequences of a dice roll. I find the potential for cascading complications, with rolls begetting more rolls, exhausting in regular PbTA.

And because morality is often so starkly delineated in these games, there are truly bad/evil people for the good kingdoms to guard and fight against, there's hardly ever any morally gray cost of doing good.

" Both the author and the publisher would become the target of many rude remarks, letter-bombs, hand grenades, and visits from Mossad. I mentioned this book just to show you that I am not completely dead -- yet. Still alive and working. I don't expect you to want to publish it... " Someone on...

I find the full on Nazi Holocaust denial aspect is really what makes this instance stand apart.

I would just like to point out that M.A.R Barker was 15 or 16 at the end of World War II. The Nuremberg trials and information coming out after the war were all in his lived experience. Others in this thread have maintained that he was a genius level academic linguist. So, this person chose...

Writing a Neo-Nazi novel and being on the board of a Holocaust denying journal for decades are pretty darn convicting.

This is the strange dichotomy I've noted before. All these indie games and non D&D games coming out must be making money and I presume people are playing them. But at a FLGS trying to pick up a game it's mostly D&D and maybe some Pathfinder. I feel like the rest of the RPG field was much closer...

I think this is a "I'm not stuck in here with you, you're stuck in hear with ME." situation anyone in the fantasy RPG space competing with D&D.

After watching it for the first time, I was a little surprised that Avatar:The Last Airbender had such a moment in 2020 seemingly without garnering much criticism at all. Damon Lindelof creating and lead writing Watchmen on HBO was pretty masterful and also didn't seem to get any blowback.

There's also the Hays Code in film and the Comics Code Authority in comic books as examples of industries trying to head off regulation due to societal moral pressures. They were in B.Daltons and Waldenbooks in the 1990s in the Northeast. May have been regional.

The statement seems to imply that Lovecraft should be used if needed in a reference work, not taught in a class. There are plenty of other major authors with problematic elements whose work is still being actively read, taught, produced for theater and adapted for other media. For instance...

So, what are the criteria for striking someone's work off the reading list for imperfect morals? Would you teach Lovecraft in a class on 20th century speculative fiction or fantastic literature?

There are books with actively malignant depictions of ethnic minorities that have been endlessly republished for hundreds of years. Seems a little overblown to be making these stop sale demands for something like OA, at least 1st edition (the one I'm familiar with).

Yes, if a space faring RPG was going to become really huge, I think it would have happened already over the last 40 years. For whatever reason, I think that sort of game is somewhat niche in the RPG space.

Right, but if TSR had dissolved into the cheese curds of Wisconsin in 1977 and Steve Jackson had the rights to TFT, what could have happened?

I'm looking at page 136 and 137 in the 1E book and Kara-Tur is basically composed of two different versions of China and two different versions of Japan at this time. There is also an enthusiastic foreward from David "Zeb" Cook wherein he talks about how much he enjoyed doing the research for...

I think The Fantasy Trip had most of these characteristics. Wargamey, combat focused, pre-1980s.