Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[CleverNickName]

I left with a belly full of pizza and a renewed love for my now 8th level cleric of wee Jas. D&D and games are making sense again. I am building terrain anew. And I realized the internet is FULL of energy/fun vampires. You MUST recharge your hobby battery…

Or you fall into the pit of “here is what your game sux and you play wrong…na what u like is wrong and…”

Get bent. My d20 calls again.

And that is why X is blocked and Y unfollowed. And why that alone won’t do it. You gotta get in the hobby.

Certain folks here make me wonder if they enjoy RPGs at all. I could go on about gatekeeping and elitism and other problems, but it all boils down to the same thing: our hobby needs better fans.

When someone posts something like "Hey guys! I wrote a 4E adventure, and thought I'd share it with everyone," the correct and pleasant response is "Thank you."

 

[RealAlHazred]

Hey guys! I wrote a 4E adventure, and thought I'd share it with everyone

I don't know why you bothered! Everyone knows you should have written it in the Best RPG of All Time: Spawn of Fashan! Anything else is, frankly, just a waste of time.

EDIT: Changed the RPG to one with more humor value.

 

[CleverNickName]

I don't know why you bothered! Everyone knows you should have written it in the Best RPG of All Time: Spawn of Fashan Thirsty Sword Lesbians! Anything else is, frankly, just a waste of time.

EDIT: Changed the RPG to one with more humor value.

Okay but you had a spelling error. I fixed it for you, you're welcome.

 

[overgeeked]

Certain folks here make me wonder if they enjoy RPGs at all. I could go on about gatekeeping and elitism and other problems, but it all boils down to the same thing: our hobby needs better fans.

That requires gatekeeping. Or training up the fans we already have. If the internet has taught me anything it’s that the vast majority of people don’t want to learn anything, they just want what they already know or think reaffirmed by others.

When someone posts something like "Hey guys! I wrote a 4E adventure, and thought I'd share it with everyone," the correct and pleasant response is "Thank you."

Yep.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Okay but you had a spelling error. I fixed it for you, you're welcome.

Is Thirsty Sword Lesbians the new Spawn of Fashan? TSL actually looks playable...

 

[CleverNickName]

Is Thirsty Sword Lesbians the new Spawn of Fashan? TSL actually looks playable...

I have no idea how to compare it to SoF; I just mentioned it because I think it has the funniest name of any RPG.

(And TSL is actually playable, and a lot of fun!)

 

[Mad_Jack]

Okay but you had a spelling error. I fixed it for you, you're welcome.

Never played TSL, but I've always been fond of Macho Women with Guns...
(And it has its own miniatures, too...)

 

[Mannahnin]

For the benefit of any passers-by unfamiliar with this hoary joke, Spawn of Fashan was famously (thanks to a review by Lawrence Schick in Dragon #60) unplayable, and immortalized in the TTRPGer classification quiz circa 1983.

Favorite FRPG:
Real Men play original Dungeons & Dragons
Real Roleplayers play RuneQuest III
Loonies play Toon
Munchkins play anything by TSR

Favorite SFRPG:
Real Men play Star Trek: The Roleplaying Game
Real Roleplayers play Space Opera
Loonies play Teenagers From Outer Space
Munchkins play anything by TSR

Favorite Post-Holocaust RPG:
Real Men play Twilight 2000
Real Roleplayers play The Morrow Project
Loonies play Paranoia
Munchkins play anything by TSR

Favorite 1920's RPG:
Real Men play Gangbusters
Real Roleplayers play Call of Cthulhu
Loonies play a variant Spawn of Fashan
Munchkins play anything by TSR

Favorite SHRPG:
Real Men play Champions
Real Roleplayers play Superworld
Loonies play an extremely variant Spawn of Fashan
Munchkins play anything by TSR

Favorite modern day/spy RPG:
Real Men play James Bond, 007
Real Roleplayers play Justice, Inc.
Loonies play an unrecognizable variant Spawn of Fashan
Munchkins play anything by TSR

Favorite King Arthurian RPG:
Real Men play Chivalry and Sorcery
Real Roleplayers play Pendragon
Loonies play an extremely unrecognizable variant of Spawn of Fashan
Munchkins play anything by TSR

 

[Mannahnin]

Never played TSL, but I've always been fond of Macho Women with Guns...
(And it has its own miniatures, too...)

And that's indeed a real game? Unlike the apocryphal Kung-Fu CB Mamas on Wheels vs. the Aztec Motorcycle Wrestling Nuns?

 

[Umbran]

I could go on about gatekeeping and elitism and other problems, but it all boils down to the same thing: our hobby needs better fans.

Our planet needs better humans. So get in line.