This is entirely the wrong way to think about it. Unless you publish the game and own the IP, the ONLY thing it can be about is the game you play/run.
Your table is YOUR table.
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Scribe
Legend
Of course you realize though, these threads, literally thousands of pages in total, are not about that.
I have my game, my answer to all this is Shadowdark.
These threads are not about individual tables.
KYRON45
Hero
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.
I'd love to see the family tree of what evolved from whatever it was that the first RPG was.
Exactly. That is the point of this one. People need to focus on THEIR tables.
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.
Scribe
Legend
I mean you (and other mods) of all people must see this yes?
We see that it is not okay, yes.
But, moderators are not thought police, nor are we mind-readers. We can't slap people down for wanting to control the future. We can slap them down for being jerks in the here-and-now.
Professor Murder
Hero
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.
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.
That rule is for food, not things that can be cleaned with a spritz and a wipe.
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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