Tabletop Community Watch -

[BlazikenLover]

They have yet to release a single product and twitter trannies are already coping, seething and dilating, It is beautiful.
I also love all the shilling for diversity training, wonder how many of those people work for such companies or have friends there.

 

[Shaka Brah]

They have yet to release a single product and twitter trannies are already coping, seething and dilating, It is beautiful.
I also love all the shilling for diversity training, wonder how many of those people work for such companies or have friends there.

They're like parrots saying that DEI acronym, which I can't remember ever hearing before. It has the same uncanny feeling as everyone talking about "social distancing" like it wasn't a completely made up phrase as soon as the pandemic bullshit started. Somehow they can all get activated at once just by hearing one figure say a word that sounds smart.

 

[IneptRobot]

I'm sure the Trove will be back, but, yikes. Never did dive too much into it, but I meant to go see what Shadowrun and Battletech books they had.

Spoiler: Well, I have a few Shadowrun books, I'll chuck them in a MEGA, it's about 11GB though.

I'm just going to .zip it and put it on MEGA or make it into a torrent, I guess.
It's got all Sourcebooks, almost all Convention Mission Packs (there's about 8 missing), the real issue is that I only have 13 novels out of 48.
Also, the Opera Web Documents are actually PDFs, I just have them designated like that because that's how I like to read them

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Yet another reminder to archive everything.

 

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Edit: Yes, I'm obviously late, but I only discovered it when I woke up, and this is additional material about the uproar Woko Haram is trying to generate.

SJWs are losing their shit, because Gygax's doesn't agree with their "progressive positions". I don't have the thread for XerJester, but I'm guessing his timeline is full of Islamic Content and "unsolicited opinions on Israel", though.
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Why does this fuck look like he's trying to be a Jeff Holiday clone?
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Archive of an article about Ernie Gygax's comments - https://archive.ph/xpaBk

TLDR - gatekeeping failed to keep Woko Haram from infiltrating, and now Woko Haram is trying to force the original fanbase out of something that Woko Haram won't play, or financially support.

From the main SJW thread. More about people losing their shit about TSR Games wanting to keep political shit out of tabletop.

 

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They found another Gygax kid, who seems more receptive to the guilt trip, and are working him over as we speak:

"Troubling, to like, MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES? that like, I totally pretend to be a part of, because like, if I don't, no one will give me attention? and like, some company not allowing me to play a 4th gender unicorn in their tabletop game based off 1970s era role playing games is like, totally HURTFUL, you know??"

Time to join the 41%, faggot.

"You should totally get your brother to hire a diversity team that will suck them dry of money and force them to implement our pseudo-religious bullshit, including a woke commisar who will sabotogue the company, force it's product to change to match our wants and needs at the express defiance of what the company's mission statement is, and then get everyone involved fired the second they can like, get some trannys, latinECHS and niggers hired! I mean, it's not going well. And by that, I mean, there's a chance people might have a choice other than our wokeshit infested products, which would be super problematic. For sure?"


I was trying to find out what interview the trannies up there are crying about, and Terrible linked it actually: https://archive.ph/xpaBk

Or specifically that's the ENWorld thread. ENWorld being the ResetERA of Tabletop, IIRC -- the guys who Frog God studios sued were involved with that site, I believe?

Actual interview:

And what was the unforgiveable sin?

That's what caused all this. Everything stems from the guy making an offhand comment that some people were tired of wokeshit being shoved in their faces in tabletop and that they were planning on capitulating on the market for alternatives that creates.

That's it. That's all of it. They said something offhand that pissed off the genderspecial "genderfluid" troons freakjobs. "WHAT? This retro tabletop game might not be ALL ABOUT WHAT MAKES MY FEMININE PENIS TWITCH?! HOW DARE, YOU, SIR?!"

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

They found another Gygax kid, who seems more receptive to the guilt trip, and are working him over as we speak:

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"Troubling, to like, MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES? that like, I totally pretend to be a part of, because like, if I don't, no one will give me attention? and like, some company not allowing me to play a 4th gender unicorn in their tabletop game based off 1970s era role playing games is like, totally HURTFUL, you know??"

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Time to join the 41%, faggot.


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"You should totally get your brother to hire a diversity team that will suck them dry of money and force them to implement our pseudo-religious bullshit, including a woke commisar who will sabotogue the company, force it's product to change to match our wants and needs at the express defiance of what the company's mission statement is, and then get everyone involved fired the second they can like, get some trannys, latinECHS and niggers hired! I mean, it's not going well. And by that, I mean, there's a chance people might have a choice other than our wokeshit infested products, which would be super problematic. For sure?"


I was trying to find out what interview the trannies up there are crying about, and Terrible linked it actually: https://archive.ph/xpaBk

Or specifically that's the ENWorld thread. ENWorld being the ResetERA of Tabletop, IIRC -- the guys who Frog God studios sued were involved with that site, I believe?

Actual interview:

And what was the unforgiveable sin?

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That's what caused all this. Everything stems from the guy making an offhand comment that some people were tired of wokeshit being shoved in their faces in tabletop and that they were planning on capitulating on the market for alternatives that creates.

That's it. That's all of it. They said something offhand that pissed off the genderspecial "genderfluid" troons freakjobs. "WHAT? This retro tabletop game might not be ALL ABOUT WHAT MAKES MY FEMININE PENIS TWITCH?! HOW DARE, YOU, SIR?!"

“Bend to our will”

“No”

“Reeeeeee that’s not what you’re supposed to say”

 

[Corn Flakes]

Oh, man. I pity anyone from or even remotely associated with the Gygax family for the next few months. They'll be coping so much harrassment for the "no wrong tactics, only wrong targets" crowd.

 

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As an aside, you can preorder their D&D recreation here: https://tsr.games/ols/products/xn-giantlands-1st-edition-boxed-set-8jb

Seems ambitious, and I'm not so sure about D&D with androids and laser rifles -- yet alone a literal LARP system baked in + a LARP campground, but for $105 after shipping I just can't say no to a way to tell the purple haired fuckwits to die in a fire.

 

[Corn Flakes]

As an aside, you can preorder their D&D recreation here: https://tsr.games/ols/products/xn-giantlands-1st-edition-boxed-set-8jb

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Seems ambitious, and I'm not so sure about D&D with androids and laser rifles -- yet alone a literal LARP system baked in + a LARP campground, but for $105 after shipping I just can't say no to a way to tell the purple haired fuckwits to die in a fire.

Don't look at it as D&D. It really isn't. It's whatever else they wanted to do, coasting on D&D nostalgia.

That's going to be the deathknell of this thing. Everybody is going to buy it thinking it's a return to the "glory days of AD&D", and then get burned when they find out it's the 80s Heavy Metal movie in RPG form. I'm a fan of the aesthetics, but I know a lot of edgy boys out there will hate it.

 

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Don't look at it as D&D. It really isn't. It's whatever else they wanted to do, coasting on D&D nostalgia.

That's going to be the deathknell of this thing. Everybody is going to buy it thinking it's a return to the "glory days of AD&D", and then get burned when they find out it's the 80s Heavy Metal movie in RPG form. I'm a fan of the aesthetics, but I know a lot of edgy boys out there will hate it.

Fair enough. I was using D&D to mean "old school tabletop" but yeah.

I'm warped though, I don't think 80s Heavy Metal Movie when I hear "Tabletop RPG with androids and guns," I think SaGa and SaGa 2, heh.

 

[Penne Dreadful]

I'm not so sure about D&D with androids and laser rifles

Robots and laser rifles were part of an official D&D module as far back as 1980. The strict separation of fantasy and sci-fi in RPGs is newer.

 

[Weeb Slinger]

This is something that baffles me coming from older fans. Games Workshop never cared about fans, especially not back in the day.

Source: I was playing in the latter days of second edition. I remember the release of Dark Eldar (Spiky bits!) and Legion of the Damned.

I will give Games Workshop their due. After a few years of whimsy, they remodelled themselves as a hard-nosed company and then never looked back. They have been consistent in riding roughshod over the wishes of their fans. YouTube is home to some alarming, Stockholm Syndrome-infused tales from former employees. Every generation of table top gamers will have a story of how they were fucked over by GW.

For me it was when White Dwarf transformed overnight from a publication focused on the broader RPG community, to an inhouse magazine that endlessly cajoled you into purchasing expensive miniatures and sourcebooks. The early issues were a competent mish mash of articles and scenarios - A smattering of AD&D; a little Traveller; whatever RPGS the company was licencing from Chaosium, ICE or West End Games. There was a book review column and a letters page that erupted into a bitter dispute over whether younger gamers could be trusted with the hobby. There were cartoons -Thrud the Barbarian; Goobledegook; The Travellers, with its indecipherable artwork and dialogue. If you subscribed you would occasionally receive a copy of a fanzine called The Black Sun.

Overnight all of that vanished. It happened so fast, it felt like a coup. From there-on it was Warhammer, front and centre, along with inhouse board games like Dark Future that were more style over content, and that GW would promote relentlessly for a few months and then drop without warning.

This had a detrimental impact on the hobby. Early White Dwarf, through the breadth of its gaming coverage, introduced people to RPGs they may never have otherwise discovered. When the magazine went inhouse there wasn't really any publication left filling that niche. Dragon / Dungeon were TSR's inhouse D&D / AD&D journals. Warlock was actually pretty decent but was aimed at younger readers and didn't last long. Imagine was mostly dull. I think Games Designer Workshop (GDW - who put out Traveller. Twilight 2000, and, later Space 1899 and Dark Conspiracy) may have produced a magazine at one point, but I couldn't tell you what the title was.

When I was gaming (I don't anymore) my favourite RPG retailers were my local independent (which I can't name without power-levelling - I still get pangs of nostalgia whenever I pass the unit where it was located); the Virgin Game Centre on Oxford Street, in London (pretty decent and run by nice people), and finally Games Workshop. There was always a weird culty vibe in those GW stores. From what I hear it's got worse.

 

[Stalphos Johnson]

I'm sure the Trove will be back, but, yikes. Never did dive too much into it, but I meant to go see what Shadowrun and Battletech books they had.

You can check out the PDF share thread on /tg/. The archives tend to have most of the bigger games, but I've found it's not quite as extensive as the Trove.

 

[Waifuwars]

You can check out the PDF share thread on /tg/. The archives tend to have most of the bigger games, but I've found it's not quite as extensive as the Trove.

FYI the Trove ripped most (if not all) of its content, as well as some of the file structure, from the /tg/ troves. A lot of /tg/'s troves got taken down due to DMCA's and people getting fed up with others bulk-dling and making troves impossible to access. The Trove served as a somewhat reliable mirror up until now since it seemed to be immune to these problems, but not anymore. The new owner deserves it for being a retard.

But yeah I recommend looking through their archives. Most things are sorted by publisher or system. Just don't be a retard and post the direct links to their troves wily-nilly otherwise shit gets taken down real fast due to bots. The links are obfuscated for a reason.

 

[Shaka Brah]

Or specifically that's the ENWorld thread. ENWorld being the ResetERA of Tabletop, IIRC -- the guys who Frog God studios sued were involved with that site, I believe?

RPGNet is the ERA of TTRPGs, but ENWorld is kind of faggy too. It's like NeoGAF.

 

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https://twitter.com/TSR_games/status/1408844460100927492

They ain't backing down.

Holy shit, are we about to see the Great Wall of FUCK YOU hit Tabletop spergs in the face like it hit the Vidya SJWs back in early GamerGate?

"My hormone pills give me telepathy and I know you're just doing this because we're WINNING THE TWITTER WAR!!!!11111one"

Speaking of winning the twitter war, the wokeshits are so pissed off now that they're losing the thin veneer of "respectability" and openly attacking dead men.

But this is pretty much standard for Cultural Maoists. Once you have control of something, either burn it to the ground so someone else can't use it, or rewrite it's history so it's always been owned by the party.


Edit: For those who don't know the "Great Wall of FUCK YOU" -- in early GamerGate, these types used their big puppydog eyes and emotional manipulation tactics on Vidya, basically going "why would you ever hate people who are just wanting to make video games a teensy itsy bitsy widdle bit less wacy-racist and sexy-wexist uwu? Why don't you just let us have editorial control over your hobby and your forums and..."

And the big fat FUCK YOU in response they got was enough to completely stun a good chunk of them -- they have no idea how to fight an actual culture war when the other side doesn't immediately capitulate and agree that yes, they ARE awesome and amazing and have nothing but the best ideas ever and clearly, we should all bow down and suck their feminine cocks and give them whatever and everything they want. They don't know what to do if TSR just doesn't crumple and give them editorial control over TSR's new franchise and all their upcoming properties. They don't have a clue about what to do, which is why you're seeing them stand around stammering, tossing random attacks at them, signaling to each other that TSR is wrongthink and must be shunned -- but the actual tabletop fans out there won't give a shit what some insane homosexual in a dress on Twitter says.

And them attacking Gygax's dad? Yeah, that's going to make him back down. Morons.

Relevant speech, from one of the meetups:

And slightly cringe comic from a Spaniard:

https://www.kukuruyo.com/comic/a-gamergate-speech-oliver-campbell/

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

This whole TSR thing is turning out to be rather entertaining.

 

[Shaka Brah]

This whole TSR thing is turning out to be rather entertaining.

This and the Factorio dev standing up for himself against reddit trannies are interesting signs for our favorite autistic hobbies. It seems like people are finally growing spines again. The sheer hilarity that can be caused by one person sticking to their guns is awe-inspiring.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

If you want to see hysteric tyranny in action, just tell and SJW "No." and refuse to budge.

They'll melt right the fuck down and start threatening your family and making up nasty shit about dead relatives.