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There are always social mores. Now isn’t particularly different. Some things are more openly discussed and others less so. Also the context of what is in public speech differs as well. Also, a business isn’t necessarily interested in “free speech” but shareholder value, so making product...

If we must continue to speak about the stinking pile of dog poo that is Dark Sun, let’s just point out that it was, at least to my observation, done in large part to quell the angry moms from hell. It removes—or seriously downplays—the parts of D&D that were questionable at the time and...

I think the real reason is that Dark Sun sucks. I feel about Dark Sun the way Snarf does about bards, but far more. In fact, the loathing of the setting is so much that I had to guzzle a good bit of my eggnog stash just to get the motivation to return to this comment section. WotC knows it’s...

I'm not sure I understand, wouldn't a dumpster filled with burning bards be a good thing in Snarfworld? Would you prefer your bards to be extinguished and free to escape?

I think the issue is actually two-fold. First, there is the question of "original sin" in the game itself. It is a valid thing to discuss and to discuss with some level of relativism for the timeframe as well as individuals involved. I'm not saying that we should just give the ol' "boys will be...

I was referring to the mod post on another thread that was closed with that verbiage. I really haven’t been following whatever it is y’all are arguing about. It wasn’t directed towards anyone, just that there isn’t any reason “to take matters into your own hands” so to speak.

Not to speak for the mods, but a similar post about this sort of topic was shut down because of well-intended sealioning. I think the mod post was to the effect, “this isn’t Gotham City, you’re not Batman, and the mods aren’t Commissioner Gordon needing help from the community.” While it...

I think the one quarter was when TSR was bankrupt and before the WotC bailout, not the 3E roll-out. During the 3E roll-out they were probably making more money on Baldur's Gate and Planescape: Torment alone than White Wolf was bringing in. As a former 90s gamer, I remember first hearing about...

It was more that White Wolf was making a profit, which was something that TSR was failing at miserably. Again, they never bothered to listen to their customers. My guess is, like most things of the era, the “Women of Fantasy” calendars were losing money and likely cost more to produce than...

This is a post regarding the early days, specifically the 1970s. I brought up the "Women of Fantasy" calendars simply to point out that it didn't end with the removal of the Blumes or Gary and continued well into the 1990s, at least to some level.

I've got a couple gallons of homemade aged eggnog resting in the basement, but you'd have to travel to rural Ontario to indulge. As for the wish, what you think we are, a bunch of efreet?

It was merely the final demise. TSR had merely awaken after taking a lethal dose of fentanyl several times to finally stop being revived.

The more I've read and learned about TSR the more surprised I am that the heavy cocaine use didn't start until 7-8 years in. Even then it was mostly just Gary and Ernie, who weren't really doing anything other than cocaine regarding running the company out in California. Yeah, you'd thought...

The best way to make sure everyone hates bards as much as you do is to make all your NPC villains bards. I mean, we’re all existing in idiosyncrasy. I’m here discussing how the industry has changed (and how it hasn’t) and how we should acknowledge the humans we play with while complaining in...

This whole thing about terms and definitions is irrelevant. I grew up using the n-word. Routinely called people the r-word and f-word. I don’t now. Again, I’m not going to justify what I used to do. It’s not justifiable. Fact is, I did what I did because I didn’t care about the impact. The...

It really didn’t matter if the art was completely devoid of chain mail bikinis or even if it were crude completely unsexualized stuck figures, that the product exists is an example of TSR both “knowing their audience” as well as being a hard piece of evidence that at least TSR was on board with...

As a white, cis-, het-, 45-year-old dude from NC, I also had a flag pinned to my bedroom ceiling as a kid that I definitely would not have today. I think the difference between me and someone trying to either deny or justify the attitude built-in to D&D is that I’m not trying to convince anyone...

Well, I read a few pages of that and it’s has made me feel like the Principal Skimmer meme.

Yeah, I get someone trying to play an orc or something, but this was definitely out of left field.