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I’ll be one of the few to agree here, but I might use the words “sets a high bar” instead of “adversarial.” Like a teacher who is a tough grader and getting an A means some hard work. There’s a fine line here, but I do enjoy challenging adventures - really feels line you’ve accomplished...

I'd actually be interested in her perspective of the D&D culture in her early days. She'd have good insight into what was happening. We know Judges Guild was pretty misogynistic at that time as well.

Here is where Jennell Jacquays insight would be helpful. The reaction when she transitioned is instructive in how enlightened (or not) nerd culture was at that time.

Couldn’t you swap in monsters from the Dragonbane Bestiary? RQ used to do a LOT of D&D monster conversions…

Yep, it's both. But some (probably more) behave according to societal norms and upbringing while others behave according to something fundamentally broken. Society can make it hard (or easy) for bad personality traits to arise, but ultimately that person's attitudes need to change internally in...

Even if he never changed, there is still value in understanding WHY he held the views he did. Upbringing? Cultural norms of the time? Too much leniency for bad behavior? Nerd culture? Too much testosterone? A bad experience with the opposite sex at an early age? All of the above? Knowing those...

But I don't think anyone is saying that either. I think what's happening people are noting that there was a lot of misogyny in the 70s AND that misogyny was bad (still a battle) AND that Gary's misogyny was on the high end of the scale. It was a messy time. It's about understanding what was...

I think this is what I am getting at. Obviously, Gary said terrible things and took horrible stances at his table and in life. Even in the context of the sexist 70s. But looking at this as the monolith of who that person was, 100% percent of his fiber being a sexist jerk, I think we do a...

In the same way 70s culture != sexism, saying there was a lot of sexism in 70s culture != sexism is okay.

For a great and interesting perspective of a modern person being thrust into 1970s culture, watch the series Life on Mars (American or UK versions are both great but American probably applies more to D&D 70s). The single female officer in the police precinct especially.

Porky’s for God’s sake. Don’t forget American Pie. National Lampoons Animal House. Mad and Cracked magazines. Heavy Metal magazine. The 70s were crude and rude. Gary was sexist but so were lots of others. Doesn’t make it right, doesn’t excuse anything, it just was.

It’s’ pretty simple. Gygax was sexist because the entire decade was sexist. The 70s was not some paragon of women’s rights by any stretch of the imagination.

The “GM Emulator” is here… https://www.reddit.com/u/TanaPigeon/s/Zw8s5GIIUI https://www.wordmillgames.com/

Yeah, this is one of those disconnects where the players may not be as familiar with the rules of the time as the characters would be. We'd always do a World Lore or an INTx5 check to see if this is something the character would have thought of. In all, that's a fairly minor encounter, so maybe...

I'm sure he is basically lying to everyone. Techbros just can'tresist.

Anniversary Edition.

Please refer to the other 10 game naming threads and correct your nomenclature to the correct one. 😉

I played a d4 MU to 10th level but very carefully. :D Our group gave us max hp at first level, so a little boost there.

Those are good - Brett especially. Gary Sinise could pull off a younger Gygax.

Haven’t heard anything myself and don’t intend to go headhunting. In any case take a look at the website and see if it describes what you’re looking for. https://freeleaguepublishing.com/games/dragonbane/