Oooof.Take Tainted Lands, for example.
Oooof.Take Tainted Lands, for example.
Oooof.
I you can find the tweet/video of Ward bragging about the ''innovations'' of Giantlands as a game, you'll see that he hasnt learnt much since he made Tainted LandsIt's pretty bad. Some more recent editions of MA were also not well received. I'd like to think that Giantlands is better, but between both of his business partners being apparent transphobes and one being creatively bankrupt, I don't have too much hope.
He lost the plot when he published "Angry mothers from heck" in dragon magazine (#140 i think). Then there was his 3e company, Fast Forward Entertainment/Games. Every single word they produced for that edition is utterly unsalvagable dreck.Why so much antipathy to Ward? I seem to recall his fingers on a bunch of good material back in the early days.
I'll point you towards the angry mothers from heck article in dragon plus his 3e company, Fast Forward Entertainment/Games. Everything he wrote for that edition of the game was trash.I don't think that's a fair comment. Kinda rude, actually. While yes, lots of things are subjective, Jim did write a lot of things held fondly by gamers.
He lost the plot when he published "Angry mothers from heck" in dragon magazine (#140 i think).
Ok. I fail to see what the problem is with that article. I mean, it was written in 1990, so there's some choices of words we might consider slightly misogynist by today's standards, but the overall point of the article is to make the game less offensive. How is that a bad thing? They are a business, after all. And what's wrong with being less offensive? I for one don't want D&D, the face of the hobby, to be all edglordy and gross.I'll point you towards the angry mothers from heck article in dragon plus his 3e company, Fast Forward Entertainment/Games. Everything he wrote for that edition of the game was trash.
and metamorphosis alpha and gamma world weren't that great.
I read it as the 1990 version of "We're doing our best to be woke." If anything, it shows that the original TSR was (outwardly, officially) taking the opposite stance of nuTSR.I mean, it was written in 1990, so there's some choices of words we might consider slightly misogynist by today's standards, but the overall point of the article is to make the game less offensive.
That’s exactly how I read it. An inclusivity pledge for the BADD/Satanic Panic-era.I read it as the 1990 version of "We're doing our best to be woke."
I haven't been following this very closely. They are really calling themselves TSR CON?Well, you can always tell when it’s Justin posting, so there’s that at least lol
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