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<blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 8950945" data-attributes="member: 7808"><p>Mick McArt, who is helping NuTSR publish Those Pesky Goblinz and Dungeon Crawl, had a Kickstarter for his board game "Temple of Temperamental Evil". This is one of the two other games that NuTSR shared in the pic above. I've been sitting on this one for awhile, as I wanted to wait until the Kickstarter was officially over so I didn't end up accidentally promoting it. Here's the link: <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mickmcart/the-temple-of-temperamental-evil/" target="_blank">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mickmcart/the-temple-of-temperamental-evil/</a></p><p></p><p>This board game is set in McArt's world of "The Unremembered Realms", of which he also has a book series. Obviously, all of this a blatant rip off of original TSR content. On his website, McArt makes a halfhearted attempt to call his Unremembered Realms content "parody", but the humor aspect seems pretty thin. The game has a few monster names that are a little punny, but otherwise it seems to be a straight fantasy board game. Here's hoping he gets a C&D from WotC about this soon. The fact that NuTSR is helping promote this garbage can only serve to as more ammunition for the lawsuit that they have no regard for IP laws.</p><p></p><p>The game is officially "Ernie Gygax Jr Approved", but Ernie has made no mention of it on any of his social media. I suspect he's never seen it. According to the Kickstarter, Ernie's review of the game is "Temperamental Evil is a well-balanced competitive game making fun of, yet still paying homage to, a 5th edition version of E Gary Gygax's creation the Temple of Elemental Evil. Reminding me very much of national Lampoon's play on JRR Tolkien's work with their Bored of the Rings." The comments from the Kickstarter gave us this gem about Ernie:</p><p></p><p>--</p><p>DGoth - 27 days ago</p><p>With Ernie Gygax approving this, will this game be inclusive?</p><p></p><p>Mick McArt - Creator - 27 days ago</p><p>@DGoth: there’s no politics in this game at all. Just good dungeon fun!</p><p></p><p>DGoth - 6 days ago</p><p>Wait, did you indicate that you consider inclusivity to be political?</p><p>Might be hard to fund this Kickstarter with that attitude.</p><p>--</p><p></p><p>The Kickstarter seems to have failed pretty badly, but McArt is going to fund the game himself and says the game will arrive in April. I guess this will be our chance to see if a 2023 Kickstarter game gets delivered before NuTSR's Dungeon Crawl (originally promised by Xmas 2021, pre-orders still unfulfilled today). Also, please remember that Mick McArt is openly anti-trans, anti-LGBT+, and anti-feminist. He sees to get along well with all the other bigots at NuTSR.</p><p></p><p>As an update on other drama, it looks like Dave Johnson's attempts to get Tenkar's videos about him have been formally dismissed:</p><p></p><p>[SPOILER="Hiding in-line video, some NSFW language"][MEDIA=youtube]ACwzWysnAKE[/MEDIA][/SPOILER]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deset Gled, post: 8950945, member: 7808"] Mick McArt, who is helping NuTSR publish Those Pesky Goblinz and Dungeon Crawl, had a Kickstarter for his board game "Temple of Temperamental Evil". This is one of the two other games that NuTSR shared in the pic above. I've been sitting on this one for awhile, as I wanted to wait until the Kickstarter was officially over so I didn't end up accidentally promoting it. Here's the link: [URL]https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mickmcart/the-temple-of-temperamental-evil/[/URL] This board game is set in McArt's world of "The Unremembered Realms", of which he also has a book series. Obviously, all of this a blatant rip off of original TSR content. On his website, McArt makes a halfhearted attempt to call his Unremembered Realms content "parody", but the humor aspect seems pretty thin. The game has a few monster names that are a little punny, but otherwise it seems to be a straight fantasy board game. Here's hoping he gets a C&D from WotC about this soon. The fact that NuTSR is helping promote this garbage can only serve to as more ammunition for the lawsuit that they have no regard for IP laws. The game is officially "Ernie Gygax Jr Approved", but Ernie has made no mention of it on any of his social media. I suspect he's never seen it. According to the Kickstarter, Ernie's review of the game is "Temperamental Evil is a well-balanced competitive game making fun of, yet still paying homage to, a 5th edition version of E Gary Gygax's creation the Temple of Elemental Evil. Reminding me very much of national Lampoon's play on JRR Tolkien's work with their Bored of the Rings." The comments from the Kickstarter gave us this gem about Ernie: -- DGoth - 27 days ago With Ernie Gygax approving this, will this game be inclusive? Mick McArt - Creator - 27 days ago @DGoth: there’s no politics in this game at all. Just good dungeon fun! DGoth - 6 days ago Wait, did you indicate that you consider inclusivity to be political? Might be hard to fund this Kickstarter with that attitude. -- The Kickstarter seems to have failed pretty badly, but McArt is going to fund the game himself and says the game will arrive in April. I guess this will be our chance to see if a 2023 Kickstarter game gets delivered before NuTSR's Dungeon Crawl (originally promised by Xmas 2021, pre-orders still unfulfilled today). Also, please remember that Mick McArt is openly anti-trans, anti-LGBT+, and anti-feminist. He sees to get along well with all the other bigots at NuTSR. As an update on other drama, it looks like Dave Johnson's attempts to get Tenkar's videos about him have been formally dismissed: [SPOILER="Hiding in-line video, some NSFW language"][MEDIA=youtube]ACwzWysnAKE[/MEDIA][/SPOILER] [/QUOTE]
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