Hussar
Legend
Because, for the past twenty years or so, EVERY SINGLE TIME we talk about anything that relates to D&D, you see the same refrain repeated over and over and over - this is the way the game was. Anyone who didn't play that way either is remembering it wrong, or should be ignored because THIS is the way the game was played. And you must accept that THIS is the way the game was meant to be played, because I'm part of the OSR and no matter what, you must accept the word from the mount about the way the game was intended to be played.Why would you care? I understand a lot of stuff, I understand why there are pronouns, why black lives matter, why a vaccinne is a good idea. But I don't understand how people can go into someones private forum and say "hey these guys are gate keeping ! this is terrible, stop them ! ".
Who cares what 10 people are doing with D&D or 100 or 10,000. It doesn't stop you from playing the game in absolutely any way you like. If they want to define OSRMYWAYDnD as the only way to "properly play D&D cause thats what Gary Gygax wanted" then let them, it doesn't encroach on YOUR freedom. Their narrower definition sounds cooler and probably more like how we played as kids, but even if they don't invite me, Im ok with it. When I played D&D 30 years ago I didn't go looking for approval on how I played, I just decided and thats what we did. So bizarre all the "gatekeeping" hysteria.
Over and over and over again.
For twenty freaking years.
It's poisoning the well and piddling on every conversation. It's telling people that they just don't really understand how the game was meant to be played, so, any of these new changes are bad. You just don't understand why they're bad because you just don't understand how the game evolved back in the day.
If it was something that popped up once in a while, that would be fine, but, it's ... every... freaking .... time.
Heck, read through some of the drive by shots in the thread about D&D 5E - A Compilation of all the Race Changes in Monsters of the Multiverse Monsters of the Multiverse and you see it. Change for changes sake. Ok they are ruining the game. Oh, WotC is completely ignorant of what "real"gamers want. So on and so forth.
You're right, it doesn't encroach on my freedom, but, it's a serious pain in the petoot to have to wade through that crap every freaking time.