OSR Swords & Wizardry White Box Rules (allegedly) self-delisted from DTRPG and Mythmere Online Store due to trolling and "fanbase warfare"

[aiouh]

Some redditors noticed that you cannot purchase White Box anymore:

Other user (u/Megatapirus) on OSR commented with some (alleged) background information:


The Discord links to Mythmere Games Discord Channels are broken and the Subreddit also seems to be gone so I cannot verify this. Hence ALLEGEDLY

 

[Nikosandros]

I don't understand any of this. Is there an edition war among clones of the OD&D boxed set? Is that enough to retire a product? I'm puzzled.

 

[TheAlkaizer]

A niche inside of a niche. It's probably a handful of people being annoying. I can understand the feeling of just not having energy to deal with something, no matter how small it may be.

 

[Nikosandros]

A niche inside of a niche. It's probably a handful of people being annoying. I can understand the feeling of just not having energy to deal with something, no matter how small it may be.

I'm probably missing the context, but couldn't they just ignore those people?

 

[TheAlkaizer]

I'm probably missing the context, but couldn't they just ignore those people?

Maybe they could. I have the temperament and personality to ignore the noise. It's relatively easy for me to ignore comments on social medias, or annoying people in my life and to not care. But I've met numerous people in my life for whom it was very difficult. No amount of "Just don't think about it, let they say whatever" worked. It affected them. I can't relate, but different people are different.

And the reality is that he's probably going over comments, discussions and emails about his products to support his customers. It becomes unavoidable to see the ugly too. It's not as easy as putting a stack of pictures of your ex in a box in the closet.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

I don’t run into this very much. Most OSR fans I talk to tend to buy a bunch of the retro clones. I know I have a bunch.

 

[Morrus]

Anybody want to tell me what this is about? I'm not going to go read a bunch of Reddit threads. Use your words.