What the hell is THIS?!

[Tuzenbach]

I'm sorry, but this just gives the Role Playing Game industry a bad name. "Panty Explosion"?!? An RPG about psychic Japanese schoolgirls?!?! Jeez, why not just cut to the chase & call the thing "We're Repressed Perverts" ???

http://www.enworld.org/shop/index.php?do=product&productid=1772&source=ENGS Banner&bannerid=435

 

[pawsplay]

Products similar to this one:

Story Engine
d20 Shakespeare

 

[Crothian]

How does this make the whole industry look bad?

 

[Slife]

I think I saw a topic on this earlier. Apparently they chose the title for shock value, and it has very little to do with the product. Except for the explosion part.

 

[Megatron]

I'm sorry, but this just gives the Role Playing Game industry a bad name. "Panty Explosion"?!? An RPG about psychic Japanese schoolgirls?!?! Jeez, why not just cut to the chase & call the thing "We're Repressed Perverts" ???

http://www.enworld.org/shop/index.php?do=product&productid=1772&source=ENGS Banner&bannerid=435

...and who's repressed?

 

[Tuzenbach]

How does this make the whole industry look bad?

Don't know. How did "Read my lips: no new taxes" cost George Bush senior a 2nd term in the White House?

It's just bad PR, that's all. It's something these moronic special interest groups & haters of D&D will gladly sieze upon, just so they can point their grubby little fingers and say "See? This game brought about suicide in the 80's and is now sleezing its way into child pornography".

 

[JustKim]

It's obviously a joke at the expense of anime conventions and ludicrous Engrish names. The product description makes it sound pretty harmless.

As far as "bad PR", the RPG PDF market is small and self-enclosed even before you get into niche products like this. Mountains would have to move for this tiny press product to affect the public's view of the industry.

 

[pawsplay]

It's not like it's "Water Closet: The RPG" or anything. Or my entry for "worst RPG concept ever" on RPG.net: My Life with Humbert Humbert (or Lolita, as someone pointed out).

I am sad that no one else finds the d20 Shakespeare ad as hilarious as I do.

 

[Tuzenbach]

It's obviously a joke at the expense of anime conventions and ludicrous Engrish names. The product description makes it sound pretty harmless.

As far as "bad PR", the RPG PDF market is small and self-enclosed even before you get into niche products like this. Mountains would have to move for this tiny press product to affect the public's view of the industry.

Hey, I hope your right. Then again, I think about the boast on Enworld's mainpage which states something to the effect of "250,000 unique visitors every month" and I cringe.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

...and who's repressed?

I am.

Help, help! I'm being repressed!

Come see the violence inherent in the system!

The Auld Grump, who admits to not likeing the title Panty Explosion either, but just intends to ignore it from this point on.