Levistus's_Leviathan
5e Freelancer
It was one thing when I was just a joke about a old, unpopular, bad mechanic, but it turns out it's actually a sneaky personal attack on an actual person, that is uncool and I'm not impressed. Is there no adult in the room at WotC anymore? The give away btw is Thaco's pipe.
Really feels like punching down. WTF does WotC feel the need to do this, this person, who shall remain nameless is critical, but no real threat to them?
It's actually worse then that, at first I thought it was just harmless teasing about an old, often critized mechanic, but it's based on a particular, actual person in real life, who is very critical about various things in the game. I don't like when multinational corporations punch down at the little guy, bullying them.
I just want to point out that this is nonsense, and personal attacks have to be "personal", in the sense that they attack a specific person. It's not a personal attack if it's a generalization of the "grumpy grognards" stereotype. They're not going after the OSR, they're going after the gatekeepers (though there may be overlap between the two, they are not the same thing).It's not just a dumb joke, it turns out it's actually a personal attack on someone in the D&D community, or rather the OSR.
It is a harmless teasing of gatekeepers. Your first impression was right.