D&D General Alleged disgruntled NuTSR insider spills the beans.

[Umbran]

VFW =Very-Weird you can fill in the F. Ernie in wrestling trunks. Thanks for the mental image Umbran.

Oh, sorry. In the US, the VFW are the "Veterans of Foreign Wars". It is an association of military veterans who have served in wars overseas.

They they put up halls for meeting and use of their commuity, and often for the community around them, often with a private bar and such in them. Often they rent the halls out for events, so folks may go out to the local VFW hall for a dance, or a wedding might be held in one, and or the like.

 

[Rabulias]

A few minutes into that, I suggested we form a band in which everyone took a stage name that was the REAL name of a famous musician who play the same or similar instrument. So, for example, the keyboard player would be Reginald Dwight (Elton John’s real name).

Tangent on a Tangent:
A friend of mine talked about making a film with a main cast of unknowns, but every person in the background is a famous star, even if it's just someone crossing the street behind the main characters. I told him I thought it would wind up being very expensive!

 

[Emrico]

Yeah, Dorso is a piece of work. He runs 1E game at the GameZenter (formerly FFG GameCenter) with a regular group of 6-10 players plus a number of drop-ins. I went for a session in early 2020, just a week or so before the initial Covid lock downs in MN. I was basically scoping his game as my kids wanted to find a 1E game to play in with me instead of me having to DM and I wanted to make sure it was suitable.

The amount of overt anti-lgbtq+ comments, complaining that Luke was canceling GaryCon, some pretty openly racist comments and stereotyping convinced me not to attend again, let alone bring my kids. My daughters would never sit through that bs without openly calling them out on it. Definitely not an environment that could be considered anything but toxic.

And he's an awful DM on top of it. The session I was at was 6 hours of random encounters as the party traveled to the dungeon. I'm far from being a top tier dm but even I don't just roll random encounters for 6 hours.

So I imagine that most of his ticket sales have been to his little group of followers. I don't expect he'll have much turnout for DaveCon. I'm honestly a bit shocked that Tim Kask is going as a guest, but maybe Tim isn't aware of what a tool Dorso is.

Jim

 

[Shakeshift]

Seems even OSR types won't have anything to do with them.

I have nothing but respect for the OSR peeps. I'm an old-timey gamer from the early 80's, and my homebrew Greyhawk campaign is going into it's 39th year (we're playing the adventuring grandchildren of the original core group from the 1980's) but I look at something like the new Star Frontiers game (at the time they wanted $80 for it) and I just laughed because they need the money from me IMMEDIATELY but they can't show me a table of contents, an author, or even a PDF sampling of eight pages from their 200+ page rulebook?

To me, they're not OSR. They're not even legitimate. They don't even speak the same language.

Venger Satanis is a guy who sacrifices his creativity to make something in gaming that'll give him an erection every time, and so his defense is "It's too sexy and sophisticated for your beta minds to comprehend!" Ernie Gygax is willing to put his name on each and any product he can (even when he has no idea what he's putting his name on) in order to try and appear relevant to modern gamers and to outdo other family members who have carried his father's legacy further and farther. Victor Dorso can't run a successful game, but he wants to go down in TTRPG history as the guy who "reunified" the Dave Arneson/Gary Gygax power couple even though nobody from either side acknowledges him or even gives him the time of day. Victor doesn't care about unification, he only cares about being a famous gaming celebrity.

These are all people who are essentially unsuccessful, and the unifying theme of all of them is the undeniable stink of failure from each and every one of them.

 

[Zardnaar]

Oh, sorry. In the US, the VFW are the "Veterans of Foreign Wars". It is an association of military veterans who have served in wars overseas.

They they put up halls for meeting and use of their commuity, and often for the community around them, often with a private bar and such in them. Often they rent the halls out for events, so folks may go out to the local VFW hall for a dance, or a wedding might be held in one, and or the like.

I knew theres veteren associations didn't get the acronym. Here it's RSA.

Your post is funnier now derp (on me).

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Genius! I call Glenn Allen Anzalone. Apparently he's even shorter than I am.

Tangent:

A few years ago, I used to bowl in a league on a team with another musician. One night over post-league dinner & beers, we started talking stage names. A few minutes into that, I suggested we form a band in which everyone took a stage name that was the REAL name of a famous musician who play the same or similar instrument. So, for example, the keyboard player would be Reginald Dwight (Elton John’s real name).

The band’s name? Alias A.K.A. Alter Ego

We saw how well their "army" rallied behind their Indiegogo campaign. They don't have the numbers, plain and simple.

That's Venger Satanis, and Justin LaNasa, and Ernie Gygax, and Stephen Dinehart, and Victor Dorso. They pretend they have a huge army ready to do their bidding, and then complain when their 'army' is a half-dozen people who won't listen to them, so they complain that WotC is conspiring against them and paying them off, or betas are conspiring against them, or young people who play 5e are in on the conspiracy, or women in gaming who are sick of being discriminated against, or LGBT peoples who are tired of being told that they're "disgusting".

They are the most vocal of minorities. They don't generate success, so they can only manufacture drama.

 

[Shakeshift]

Genius! I call Glenn Allen Anzalone. Apparently he's even shorter than I am.



We saw how well their "army" rallied behind their Indiegogo campaign. They don't have the numbers, plain and simple.

It's very clear at this point that they have nothing. They've lost this particular war.

My issue is that I just wish Luke Gygax would ban people that are planning on visiting both GaryCon and TSRCon. If they're going to run around unmasked at the Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum and attend a FAKE convention, I would prefer at that point that they stay at the museum and don't come back to infect people at the REAL convention. They're going to be disease-spreaders. I would prefer some distance between the people who care about such things as immunizations and wearing masks... and the mouth-breathing people who think otherwise. I don't want to have to deal with it.

 

[Sacrosanct]

It's very clear at this point that they have nothing. They've lost this particular war.

My issue is that I just wish Luke Gygax would ban people that are planning on visiting both conventions. If they're going to run around unmasked at the Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum and attend a FAKE convention, I would prefer at that point that they stay at the museum and don't come back to infect people at the REAL convention. They're going to be disease-spreaders. I would prefer some distance between the people who care about such things as immunizations and wearing masks... and the mouth-breathing morons who think otherwise.

That would be impossible to try to manage, even if it were a good idea. Also, it's Wisconsin. There are gonna be lots of people not wearing masks outside of the hall. I don't think WI has an indoor mask mandate; it's the hall's policy

 

[Shakeshift]

That would be impossible to try to manage, even if it were a good idea. Also, it's Wisconsin. There are gonna be lots of people not wearing masks outside of the hall. I don't think WI has an indoor mask mandate; it's the hall's policy

I know it would be a logistical nightmare to even try.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Tangent on a Tangent:
A friend of mine talked about making a film with a main cast of unknowns, but every person in the background is a famous star, even if it's just someone crossing the street behind the main characters. I told him I thought it would wind up being very expensive!

Maybe not. Apparently, a lot of the more famous people in Sin City did it for cheap/free because they wanted to be in Sin City.

PS: I like the idea.