CruelSummerLord
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In reading the Lorraine Williams post, I came across this quote...
What was this about? Was SKR part of the lawsuit that stamped out this Mythos game? I admit I'm curious, and I'd like to know more. What do most people think of Reynolds, anyway?
My other question has to do with the "anti-dark gaming" thing that Roger Moore had going. I noticed in one of the 2E Greyhawk products I owned, there seemed to be a move to generally sanitize the City of Greyhawk, mentioning at several points how establishments such as taverns and guilds that formerly excluded women or demihumans have become more inclusive and open to anyone, and how those that do not have attracted the disgust and scorn of many in the city. Simillarly, I noticed how the City had abolished slavery-something that struck me as very odd, since I never would have figured Greyhawk to let morals get in the way of profit.
Was Moore involved in "sanitizing" any RPG products, or making them more politically correct? I admit, that was something that irked me, and in my own Greyhawk work at Canonfire I went out of my way to make things more grey than that-many realms allowing slavery in one form or another, or practicing discrimination either open or subtle, more to keep Greyhawk a grim and gritty setting. If there are still exclusiveness, racism and sexism in the real world in the new millennium, I simply see no reason why a gritty pseudo-medieval world would necessarily be any more enlightened.
I'm just curious about these two topics.
Sanguinemetaldawn said:There is significantly more to it than that.
First, think of your favorite RPG. You have purchased the core rules, and a few expansions, and you are looking forward to two major setting releases (the city of Ascalon and the City of Ys). Additionally, you just paid for a subscription to the new supplemental 'zine, and you are waiting for your first issue. You are working on a campaign, and your players have designed characters.
Then you find out your game is dead because the T$R has clubbed the creators into submission with relentless lawsuits and legal fees they can't hope to pay.
Even though the grounds for the suit (that it is a derivative of D&D) is pure garbage, and that fact is obvious to anyone with a brain.
And the sole purpose of the lawsuit was to crush Mythus. The game didn't fail against the competition. It didn't fail because it was managed badly. It was crushed by the biggest and oldest player in the industry, purely to destroy it and end its existence.
And that cash you shelled out for that subscription: kiss it goodbye and eat the loss, fool. That was Sean "Veggie boy" Reynolds answer, if couched in gentler diction.
What was this about? Was SKR part of the lawsuit that stamped out this Mythos game? I admit I'm curious, and I'd like to know more. What do most people think of Reynolds, anyway?
My other question has to do with the "anti-dark gaming" thing that Roger Moore had going. I noticed in one of the 2E Greyhawk products I owned, there seemed to be a move to generally sanitize the City of Greyhawk, mentioning at several points how establishments such as taverns and guilds that formerly excluded women or demihumans have become more inclusive and open to anyone, and how those that do not have attracted the disgust and scorn of many in the city. Simillarly, I noticed how the City had abolished slavery-something that struck me as very odd, since I never would have figured Greyhawk to let morals get in the way of profit.
Was Moore involved in "sanitizing" any RPG products, or making them more politically correct? I admit, that was something that irked me, and in my own Greyhawk work at Canonfire I went out of my way to make things more grey than that-many realms allowing slavery in one form or another, or practicing discrimination either open or subtle, more to keep Greyhawk a grim and gritty setting. If there are still exclusiveness, racism and sexism in the real world in the new millennium, I simply see no reason why a gritty pseudo-medieval world would necessarily be any more enlightened.
I'm just curious about these two topics.
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