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<blockquote data-quote="Dessert Nomad" data-source="post: 8318263" data-attributes="member: 6976536"><p>What I find most amazing is just how much incompetence is on display here... If Ernie just wanted to make a new TSR to make some money, it wouldn't really be that hard. He already had a Giantlands game and some artists and designers happy to work with him, and one could get a lot of mileage from "continuing my father's legacy". If he just worked that angle and didn't pull out the bigotry and false persecution claims, he could probably make some decent money. </p><p></p><p>I think a lot of the old gamer types just don't get that being openly anti LGBT is a lot like being openly racist in the 80s. There are still a significant number of people that embrace that bigotry, but there are a lot of people who find sneering at trans and queer people "something they don't want to be party to" even if they don't know any openly queer or trans people. You can just ignore it in a game (I don't think a 2e style game that ditched sex-based limits and didn't even mention what's allowed to be in the "gender" box would get pushback), and get no real pushback, but you can't go full bigot about it.</p><p></p><p>Even minor things have been handled badly. While it doesn't hit the tire fire part of the situation and is barely noticeable on that context, I think opening up New TSR by selling generic cheap dice with the logo on the packaging was a really poor start. I'm guessing they needed to move some sort of product for trademark purposes, but it makes the company look like it's just "slap a logo on anything" instead of a solid game company.</p><p></p><p>This is definitely a popcorn worthy event.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dessert Nomad, post: 8318263, member: 6976536"] What I find most amazing is just how much incompetence is on display here... If Ernie just wanted to make a new TSR to make some money, it wouldn't really be that hard. He already had a Giantlands game and some artists and designers happy to work with him, and one could get a lot of mileage from "continuing my father's legacy". If he just worked that angle and didn't pull out the bigotry and false persecution claims, he could probably make some decent money. I think a lot of the old gamer types just don't get that being openly anti LGBT is a lot like being openly racist in the 80s. There are still a significant number of people that embrace that bigotry, but there are a lot of people who find sneering at trans and queer people "something they don't want to be party to" even if they don't know any openly queer or trans people. You can just ignore it in a game (I don't think a 2e style game that ditched sex-based limits and didn't even mention what's allowed to be in the "gender" box would get pushback), and get no real pushback, but you can't go full bigot about it. Even minor things have been handled badly. While it doesn't hit the tire fire part of the situation and is barely noticeable on that context, I think opening up New TSR by selling generic cheap dice with the logo on the packaging was a really poor start. I'm guessing they needed to move some sort of product for trademark purposes, but it makes the company look like it's just "slap a logo on anything" instead of a solid game company. This is definitely a popcorn worthy event. [/QUOTE]
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