Sandy Petersen's recent statements on colonialism, transgender athletes, and homeschooling

[PsyzhranV2]

So Sandy Petersen has been saying... "stuff".

Three days ago, The Atlantic published this piece discussing themes of colonialism in board games:

The Board Games That Ask You to Reenact Colonialism

A newish wave of sophisticated, adult board games have made exploitation part of their game mechanics. A reckoning is coming.

www.theatlantic.com

Petersen tweeted this in response:


Later, in an unrelated series of tweets, he complained about the presence of transgender athletes in competitive sports:


He also apparently follows the infamous Varg Vikernes on Twitter, and recently conversed with him about homeschooling in Germany:


So uh, yeah. That happened.

 

[DemoMonkey]

Ok.

 

[AOieiosle]

You'd think he'd take 5 and be like "damn, better not pull an Ernie Gygax."

 

[doctorbadwolf]

What company or product is this person associated with?

 

[Panjumanju]

At a certain point people will start walking away from this hobby just for the fact that its heroes keep turning out to be monsters.

//Panjumanju

 

[PsyzhranV2]

What company or product is this person associated with?

He first worked at Chaosium on the first edition of Call of Cthulhu and the third edition of Runequest. He later joined id Software where he worked on level design for Doom and Quake. Then he did some work for Ensemble Studios on Age of Empires. Currently I believe he's back at Chaosium as a consultant.

 

[billd91]

Totally with him on the board game issue. Playing a historically-inspired board game doesn’t mean you support historical atrocities any more than playing Nuclear War meant you supported nuclear Armageddon or that playing a D&D cleric meant you were engaging in Satan worship. That’s really starting to drift over into BADD territory.

 

[tommybahama]

The guy holds the same opinion as the majority of the population. You want him ostracized for this?

 

[Umbran]

If Mr. Petersen wants to talk himself into irrelevancy, that's his choice.

I'm good friends with the designer of Spirit Island. Please try his game - you might like it.

 

[Deathmaster Banak]

At a certain point people will start walking away from this hobby just for the fact that its heroes keep turning out to be monsters.

//Panjumanju

A monster, really? Has he killed anyone? No I didn't think so. Can we save this kind of hyperbole for people like Dennis Nilsen?