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The nature of the gaming crowd is as such that they feel this thing is THEIR thing and thou shalt not infringe upon their.....whatever. With any culture there will always be the "you must" and "you must not" crowd. While it does tend to allow for much toxicity it also allows for reformations and revolutions and realisations.
I'd love to see the family tree of what evolved from whatever it was that the first RPG was. ;)
 


Its not about home tables. It really isnt. Its about controlling hearts and minds, and the future of the game.

That's not okay.

Creators make games. Players pick up the ones they like. That's it. Nobody has rights to "control hearts and minds" beyond that. You wanna grab some hearts and minds, make a game that does it. That's the acceptable mode.

More than that, as a practical matter, doesn't work. The only constant is change - times change, and entertainments change with them. Trying to hold on to a standard as "the way it is done" is doomed to failure. Every. Time.

So, again, find your oldies station, and leave the kids alone.
 



There is going to be an ongoing tension between the micro of the culture of your game table and the macro of the culture of the hobby overall. This is further complicated by the conflation of internet game culture with actual game culture. While the internet allows for some very engaging discourse, it's lack of guardrails allows for many bad actors to have an outsized impact on said discourse.
There is a longstanding obsession in geek circles with "cannon". When the publishers of a longstanding property make changes, well change upsets some people. Moreso, many people don't like learning that something they enjoy causes offense or even harm to others. The reasonable, mature response is to listen and when needed, to make changes. The immature one is to double down and defend one's "right" to insult or harm others.
Run your table how you see fit yes, but always be willing to ask "who will my table attract and who will it turn away" and see how happy you are with those answers. Like calls to like.
 


This.

For us old guys we got a lot of products (TTRPG, tv shows, books, etc. in the entertainment world) geared towards us in our youths that our parents thought were dumb. This is the cycle.

Likewise unlike elder folks, some of these products when looked with refreshed eyes & in the company of younger ppls, did not age well. Pare away what is cringe and don't allow stuff like that to ossify.
 

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