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Bit of both, IMO. That's why I've made it a practice to ignore any allegations without receipts where Mr. Fox is concerned. Some folks have legitimate concerns about him, but he also has a HUGE contingent of regressive types who hate his liberal politics. Criticism of him is often disguised as...

As ate as last fall, Fox was posting an image of Zweihander influences that included WFRP 2e. If he's trying to obscure the link between the two games, he's doing an awful job.

I'm pretty jazzed about it myself.

When it comes to transparency, I've never heard Daniel Fox deny WFRP's influence on Zweihander. Never. As recently as last fall, he posted a list of Influences on his Facebook page, which plainly listed WFRP, as well as a host of others. The idea that Zweihander has less justification for...

I'm a huge fan of Zweihander, and a defender of Fox. That having been said, I can see why people dislike or even hate the guy. However, the whole Trove thing is an argument I don't understand at all. I don't get feeling so positively entitled to stolen property. It's weird af. I'm not even...

I once read somewhere, and man do I wish I could remember who wrote it because it's great and they deserve credit, that every game since D&D has tried to distinguish itself either by being like D&D or by not being like D&D.

Also, there are plenty of retro-clones of "non-OGL" systems. James Bond 007, Marvel Super Heroes, Ghostbusters.

Day one pledge for me. I'm currently running a Zweihander campaign for some veteran players, including some old GW employees, one of whom was the first person in the US to get a copy of WFRP (which he still has). I've heard the "knockoff" arguments, and I don't buy them. There's a lot more...

Certainly doesn't sound "organic."

Not exactly, but it's related. It seems Gillespie has added his voice to the chorus of grognards who seem to think that old white guys are the real victims of persecution (for the record, I'm an old white guy). His review of the D&D movie was bizarrely built around the idea that it was designed...

It's more the "white grievance" stuff than the so-called "anti-Marxist" stuff for me. So, yeah, I'll be giving this one a hard pass. I wouldn't buy any product by Gillespie, even if there wasn't already so much great OSR product out there by people far more worthy of support. Not to mention, I'm...

Classic "picture book" WWI aerial combat game Ace of Aces is getting a new edition, which is now crowdfunding on Kickstarter. I am not in any way affiliated with the game, or any company producing or promoting it. I'm just a fan since the 1980s, and am thrilled that the game is seeing a new...

I typically use DM, GM, Referee, Judge, or whatever the game I'm currently running calls it. My players tend to use Game Master, that is, when they're not just using my name. Which they usually are. One player in particular only uses "Game Master" kind of a sarcastic way when he feels he's about...

THAC0 - pronounced tha-KEER-a, like "Shakira" Crits Don't Lie

Jennell Jaquays' Illustrations for Blue Frog Tavern, a Tunnels & Trolls solo adventure, are some of my favorite in any module, ever.

And he wrote a series of blog posts subscribing to the theory that Pence could refuse to certify the 2020 election. He's also just announced an upcoming ACKS supplement based on a book published by neo-nazi Vox Day's own Castalia House Publishing. People making excuses for him remind me of...

Yep, like the just-released Lair of the Leopard Princesses by Sarah Newton of Mindjammer fame. It's a full-on, pulpy, Sword & Sorcery game with a cool setting that takes M!M! (and by extension T&T) to some neat places. I wasn't too excited about this, to be honest, but curiosity got the best of...

Chirine Ka Bal acknowledged that this was known to the Tekumel Foundation in Barker's lifetime by some of his peers, and after his death by even more. While I can understand not knowing how to deal with something like this, the fact is that an attempt was not even made. That having been said, I...

Barker was on the editorial board of that publication for around a decade. All of the issues are on the Internet Archive.

Worth noting that even if Barker wasn't an actual uniform-wearing, goose-stepping nazi, he can still be (and by the available evidence certainly was) an anti-Semite. As to his being Muslim, racist movements have a long history of strange bedfellows. Dan Burros, a prominent Klan member in the...