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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Libertad" data-source="post: 9848780" data-attributes="member: 6750502"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWwcDrhGRe4" target="_blank">Here's a link to the stream</a>I looked at the transcript and attempted to search for certain terms via CTRL + F, and didn't see any mention of Bledsaw, Judges' Guild, racism, or similar topics. I haven't had time to watch it in full.There is someone in the comments section below who has three thumbs up asking the following 1 day ago:It has yet to be answered.Honestly, I haven't been impressed with Roll for Combat's handling of controversial topics in the gaming industry, and I wouldn't trust them as a reliable source based on their prior track record. Mostly in that their doomsaying about Wizards of the Coast has been remarkably fact-free at times. <a href="https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/dungeons-dragons-and-the-ogl-1-1-official-discussion-thread-updates-jan-18th-5-pm-gmt-5-in-post-1.906270/#post-24648160" target="_blank">A while back during the OGL scandal, they spread a false rumor on Twitter that WotC was planning to sue Disney for ownership of Star Wars KOTOR due to using the D20 system.</a> Ryan Dancey, one of the people who worked on the game directly refuted this...<a href="https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/dungeons-dragons-and-the-ogl-1-1-official-discussion-thread-updates-jan-18th-5-pm-gmt-5-in-post-1.906270/#post-24648177" target="_blank">but RfC continued posting as though that was the case.</a><a href="https://x.com/RollForCombat/status/1611469461894189062" target="_blank">Link to the original Twitter claim.</a>This hasn't been a one-time thing. Around the time that their Battlezoo Ancestries Year of Titans project wrapped up, they sent out a newsletter that rubbed me the wrong way because it contained just straight-up disinformation:Besides the fact that WotC is still releasing hardcovers and discontinued Shard at the time of the newsletter, throwing VTTs into the same vein as microtransactions and LLM AI is downright Luddite in nature. They also had an ill-advised thumbnail and title about the LGBT art Wizards released:[MEDIA=youtube]nIkX1AogRaU[/MEDIA]I haven't watched the whole thing, but their comments section has unfortunately attracted the "LGBT people are pedophiles" chuds, who ironically are also angry at RFC when one of the people in the stream who regularly partners with RFC compared TSR-era chainmail bikini art to blackface minstrel shows about 35 minutes in. Which is a bad analogy IMO, even if it was currently drawing ire from the chuds. Said person in the comments section also claimed ignorance about the anti-LGBT criticisms of the artwork.<img src="https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/eb9c5556e3c6.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />I checked back out of curiosity, and the Knightsoflastcall guest's "release the files" comment was removed for some reason.I haven't really seen any outright chud behavior from Roll for Combat, but I am feeling that they're being too lenient and eager to go into the "modern D&D is bad" grift which causes them to be buddy-buddy with some rather shifty people and makes it impossible to take them seriously when they keep making content for it. While I did like their work, it's made me not so willing to purchase or Let's Read their work in the future (which I've done in the past) unless something changes.</blockquote>

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