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As a black man who is 46 and has been playing RPG's since I was 12 I can tell you that in an overwhelmingly white hobby? This is just not true to my experience. AT ALL. Let me clarify. Gamers are a subset of the population. If there are bigots and sexists in the general population? There are...

They had a hardcopy that you had to pay for for the original Pathfinder playtest too over ten years ago. This is not a new thing. The PDF for the playtest is FREE. So I'm not sure what the complaint is. If you dont want to pay for the playtest download the free version in August. If you want a...

YUP. Still have mine too. And the fact that I'm selling/trading most of my RPG library off to Noble Knight Games and refuse to part with Ptolus (and a few other products) says alot about the quality of that book both physically and content wise.

Prior to the Legislating the courts did not fairly adjudicate for people treated unfairly due to gender and race. Again, YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS. Youre asking to go back to that when CLEARLY people would go back to enforcing unfair treatment for people of color and women. The resentment youre...

Also, as a black man in the US I dont find discrimination to be a joke AT ALL. But hey thanks for minimizing and trivializing that...

I notice that you cited intelligence and being adaptable when talking about humans, you dont mention fair minded and just though. You also push abolishing AA but propose nothing, no ideas on what to replace it with. You simply trust that whatever group who holds power to be fair and just? That...

This is not how the actual real world works and you know this. Affirmative Action only exists because historically in the US everyone other than white men were considered second or third class citizens. Historically white men in this this country DIDNT care if a black/brown man or woman or a...

I think that part of the reason that D&D is doing as well as is right now is because of these livestreams. I don't play D&D but I think that if these live streams bring people into the hobby? Great. It's a way to bypass the mostly toxic gatekeeper mentaility that you see in this very thread. And...

FROG GOD GAMES is Bill Webb's company. THAT'S why I'm not supportting it anymore. If he were a developer or a designer or a favored freelancer or something that's not much better but it''s decidely different. I could wait for them to remove or fire the said offender in that case. But being that...

Yeah me too. I have a bunch of Frog God Games content including 3 of thier huge Hardcover books. I wont be buying anything from them any more. The only power a consumer has is to vote with thier dollars and I'm voting with mine. And if anyone asks me I'll be sure to tell them why.

If that's their initial reaction then there's no amount of re-examination of attitudes that are going to change them and suddenly make them empathic human beings . Make note of who they are , minimize your dealings with them and move on.

Wow. Threads like this a constant reminder that while there are good, even-handed people who see that decent treatment of another human being is a low bar that should be easily hurdled and not a "political issue". It also shows that there are a fair amount of people in the hobby who are pretty...

I'm starting to find out about several names in the gaming community who are serial harassers and even one that physically assaulted someone at a company based con this past year. I've since stopped any and all purchases and kickstarters from that guy's publishing company. I was a big fan of his...

Staying engaged. Being there for the group as a decent player and decent human being. Basically not being a selfish, self-involved sociopath.

As someone who still owns that first Letterboxed release of STAR WARS on Laserdisc I'm fairly certain that Episode IV appears in the opening crawl. All of the early home video releases, including it's run on HBO i beleive had Episode IV added to the title crawl. When Empire was released Lucas...

The problem with all of this is that amount of people who would pay for this sort of convienence in relation to the larger RPG "community" is SMALL. The table top RPG community is also notoriously CHEAP and tend to complain about spending money on ANYTHING. They complain about subsciption...

Watch ALIENS to the very end of the credits. Near the very end you can actually hear the skittering of a facehugger from the right to left audio channel. I first noticed it on all of the home video editions of the movie (on Laserdisc, DVD and BluRay) and thought that maybe it was something FOX...

The theatrical cut of ALIENS is easily my favorite James Cameron film and it's hands down one of the best seige films committed to celluloid. The pacing of that film is relentless even during the setup in the first half. Between the emotional trauma that Ripley is clearly suffering from, the...

I think that in some cases that using Electronic tools to facilitate your game and using pirated materials are two different things. I dont run 5E, but in the game that I do run using electronic tools to facilitate my game in the form of the ability to quickly access rules material is a BOON and...

I decided many years ago that if a game has no PDF suppport then I'm not playing or supporting that game. There have been one or two exceptions since that time (Most notably the FFG STAR WARS game) but for the most part yeah. 5E had thier basic rules as a PDF so that's not too bad. This is...