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You were under the mistaken impression that the TTRPG hobby as a whole takes that sort of thing seriously.

Your initial post was that your players' explanation is baffling to you, and you're turning to the commentariat here for clarification. Totally understandable, but the people you should be asking to clarify your players' responses are your players, not us randos. That's not a knock on you -...

Have you considered actually asking the group why, instead of urging a bunch of strangers online to speculate about their motives?

Why do you think this issue is overblown, and why are you deciding that they are now telling the full truth?

Who exactly conducted this investigation, given that it officially consists of J&S and a friend of theirs (and now he's claiming that some of them are contractors)? At least Blizzard went through the motions of hiring outside professionals. The dueling lawsuits are still ongoing, so presumably...

Because they're not really free speech absolutists. They're followers of the Preferred First Speaker Doctrine - not coincidentally, because they often are the ones rushing in to speak their minds first.

If that happens, then people will make decisions about whether they want to buy from DTRPG rather than itch.io, KS, directly from the publisher, or some other DTRPG competitor that might arise in that situation. I want to make sure I am understanding your argument and not overstating it. You...

And those product guidelines don't say "you cannot post anything political in public without our written permission". They don't say anything remotely like it. They are referring to what you can put up on DTRPG. No, it says that DTRPG may refuse to give you a venue to sell RPGs that are, in...

Where in their policy does it say “if you post strong political views in public without DTRPG’s written permission we may kick you off DTRPG”? I find it interesting that the deep concerns about free speech gloss right over OBE’s review policy, which prohibits anyone connected professionally to...

It's not a "very strong free speech belief" to argue that a private company, merely by virtue of being popular or successful, is morally obligated to continue do business with vendors who attack the company's financial well-being by publicly disparaging them - even if the public attacks on that...

Oh my goodness. Can we not do the thing where we argue that my RPG is a true RPG, but your RPG, since it has insufficient crunch in my view, is merely "collaborative storytelling"?

Sure. But it's also a book that explains how players want different things out of their game, and how a group can butt heads (or even fall apart) without understanding why if those expectations are not understood. I wish I'd read it before running a very frustrating Delta Green campaign in...

You might want to check out Robin's Laws of Good Gamemastering if you haven't already read it. People have different styles of play and things they are going to get out of games. If your principle pleasure in running RPGs is tactical storytelling, of course you're going to be baffled by the...

This. ESPECIALLY when it's in a terrible hard-to-read handwritten font that goes on and on for pages. To be fair, there are some rulesets that handle this well; Dread is a fantastic example of how short snippets can set the mood and example for play. But they're the exception.

If it's a game where the basis are indeed easy to grasp and don't take a ton of time to learn, great! Otherwise, it's a bother because I have limited free time for my hobby and I don't want to waste it on the equivalent of doing a homework assignment.

The purpose of a television show is to entertain the viewing audience, not the actors. I suspect you’re getting pushback because you’re using “party” to mean a specific, narrow type of ensemble - the Fellowship-style group of assorted people who have little in common other than working...

There's a post explaining the situation and with multiple links right at the top of this thread. This isn't the Warren Commission Report, it's really not that hard to see what is going on. You're jumping on a whole thread about a specific situation and choosing to ignore that situation because...

(Apologies for my garbled prior post. I don't know what happened on my phone there.) So first, let's acknowledge that the person arguing that they should never hold any public-facing job is indulging in a ridiculous fantasy. Getting shunned by a hobby community is not going to destroy anyone's...

I’m honestly not sure how to address the argument that the only alternative to being a D&D celebrity is a lifetime of working at a call center or warehouse job. Much less the

“owe” then reform? “Deserves” a chance? Restorative Justice is never centered on the perpetrator and isn’t about putting their redemption narrative first and foremost. These people are still trying to image-manage their way out of consequences and yet even as they are trying to ooze right back...