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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Catulle" data-source="post: 8322737" data-attributes="member: 9942">Nothing new, honestly, has come to light about the roots of D&D, the Gygax (Sr.) stuff is well over a decade old by now, and has come up time and again. The game has moved on and branched out considerably since the man was a major contributor (my own preferred poison is 4E, so, heh, joke's on me). The Gygax (Jr.) stuff is fresh and... pungent, but he's pretty much a footnote in terms of actual game product at this stage. Like, EN Publishing dwarfs him (pun intended) by comparison. Across any one of the editions they've written for.We do all have feet of clay, though, the aside to the nazi infiltration of the neopagan movement, which iitself rooted in appropriative and imperialist frameworks of two centuries back, itself rooted in cultural myth. The Victorian reframing of Scots identities suppressed by previous English cultural cleansing, and the difficulties faced by British Hellenestic practitioners in a world where, well... eyes the British MuseumAll we can strive for is to do better, to reduce the harm going on out there (and this kind of conversation here is utterly part of that dialectic), to condemn bad action and address the harm done. While I am interested in the answer to this question (there were a pair of articles linked earlier relating to British-British anti-asian rascism wrt Orcs that did did a good job of framing the cultural reception of racist background radiation), I did want to add that even if we locked horns earlier in-in-thread, I can still deeply respect the work you're putting in with Ernie and I definitely needed the reminder regarding unconditional positive regard in relationship driven interventions. So I'm sorry for piling on the personal pressure.</blockquote>

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