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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...

My thing is this: have your players make a back up PC or two and have THEM figure out how those backup PC's are related to the characters and story. Have them come up with a decent insert/introduction point. I'll never remove character death from games that I run. What I tend to do is try to...

To me this is like saying books are better than movies or TV. Or like saying that TV is better than movies. Video Games and TTRPG's are two very different things and I'll go as far to say that the consistency of a good video game is preferable to an uneven or bad Gm and obnoxious / bad players...

Of course you would. Youre the one arguing that everything is D&D. And it isn't. The OGL is the system kernel not the brand. Listen, I think that you are so wrong about this that you're several light years away from being right. Youre not going to convince me and I'm not going to convince...

I think that there is a level of intellectual dishonesty that's going on in this discussion that unfortunately is typical of nerd fandom and people who have to be right. The OGL has it's origins in the idea of open source software. Because this is closer to what we're actually dealing with than...