Tabletop Roleplaying Games (D&D, Pathfinder, CoC, ETC.)

[astrohairlip]

The current issue is the Steve Jackson has gone full wokie "black lives matter! transrights are human rights! we don't want shit lords buying our products!"

This is very retarded, yes, and really not helping, but I think the issues with GURPS actually being played/playable are mostly a separate issue.

Making a legally distinct retroclone of GURPS, something I'm a little surprised hasn't been done earlier, would also sort of wrestle a lot of perceived control away from SJG as the one-true source of anything related to that style of play. I don't think it's something I'd pour a ton of time and money into, because there's probably not much of a potential for return and I think the overall demand for something like an SRD and rule curation/white labeling tool would still be kind of small, but it's something I'm interested in enough to maybe get it going. I'll have a bit more time in a few months, at which point I'll decide if it's something I want to dedicate the time to building it.

 

[Sayer of the N-Word]

They deserve it for the wokeshit.

A company doesn't deserve to have its property locked up for the crime of being woke and cringe.

Incidentally, I remember comic book shop owners complaining about Diamond way back in the 2000s. They had a near monopoly on distributing shit like game books and comics for decades and knew they could abuse their customers, who lost business every time they were unable to fill their customer's order for months. That kind of performance is unacceptable in an era where two day delivery from Amazon is routine and even POD books from DTRPG can be at your door in less than three weeks.

 

[ColonelCadaver]

A company doesn't deserve to have its property locked up for the crime of being woke and cringe.

A company deserves having their executives and staff tortured for lols for having gone full 2slgbtqia+ ally AND for that horrendous stuff they did in pathfinder 2nd ed.

 

[p1138]

A company deserves having their executives and staff tortured for lols for having gone full 2slgbtqia+ ally AND for that horrendous stuff they did in pathfinder 2nd ed.

"having gone" as if they weren't already that from the start in Redmond, Washington, a suburb of the Seattle bughive? Come on.

 

[ColonelCadaver]

"having gone" as if they weren't already that from the start in Redmond, Washington, a suburb of the Seattle bughive? Come on.

Well, maybe, but 'torture for lols' part still stands.

iirc they've implemented armor class scaling in 2nd ed.

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

Looks like someone didn't read the official combat wheelchair rules which state that you can't do those.

I would not be shocked if that's real somewhere.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

I would not be shocked if that's real somewhere.

It's homebrew but it does exist and it made a major splash in the faggified D&D community a few years ago and I'm pretty sure that it's one of those "Technically homebrew but endorsed by Wizards" type deals.

I have such faggotry to show you

The chairs are actually so powerful that you're worse off not having one.

 

[p1138]

Well, maybe, but 'torture for lols' part still stands.

Sure. I'm just amused when people claim that paizo became pozzed at some point within the past few years, as if they weren't from the start. Half of the pronouns used when describing shit in pf1 were "she/her", the APs have girlbosses sprinkled throughout including a succubus who is a strong independent woman who don't need no man, at least half of their iconic characters were some kind of fantasy indian/arab/black/whatever, at least a couple of the gods were lesbians(because that's something that matters...) and of course a bunch of their named characters happened to be lghdtv2+ whatever as well, it just goes on and on. You'd have to seriously have paid no attention to anything if you didn't notice this crap due to how much they shoved it into everything.

 

[Henri Barbusse]

It's homebrew but it does exist and it made a major splash in the faggified D&D community a few years ago and I'm pretty sure that it's one of those "Technically homebrew but endorsed by Wizards" type deals.

I have such faggotry to show you

The chairs are actually so powerful that you're worse off not having one.

I'm positive the only reason it's only homebrew and not official is that the author was really insistent about her branding.

You really have to link the complete 68 page pdf file with exquisite art for the full effect of the Combat Wheelchair. Pay special attention to the second page of the pdf for what's likely the most ridiculous illustration in the entire thing and the final page for hilarious rules on how to use the Combat Wheelchair in your own work:

Mentioning the Chair in Your
Work
You cannot directly lift any of the text or rules as laid out
in this document.
If you are creating an NPC who uses the Combat
Wheelchair, a subclass, or an upgrade dictated in this
document, you must describe it as such:
This NPC uses a Combat Wheelchair and/or a
subclass and/or a Combat Upgrade. For the relevant
rulings, please refer to 'The Combat Wheelchair v3.0'
PDF written by Sara Thompson.
If you wish to make note that your adventure, subclass,
etc. is Combat Wheelchair accessible, you may include
a sidebar or footnote on the relevant sections that links
back to this PDF ruleset and credits Sara Thompson as
shown in the 'Crediting' section.

There is Combat Wheelchair v4, but I'm 99% sure it's just the creator changing names from Sara to Matt.

at least a couple of the gods were lesbians(because that's something that matters...)

This is the least offensive part of the thing, since in any pantheon that's cribbing from Greek mythology, who is fucking who is of paramount importance and has world-shaping consequences.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

I'm positive the only reason it's only homebrew and not official is that the author was really insistent about her branding.

Undoubtedly.

 

[p1138]

This is the least offensive part of the thing, since in any pantheon that's cribbing from Greek mythology, who is fucking who is of paramount importance and has world-shaping consequences.

Yeah I'm sure it's because they were cribbing from greek mythology and had nothing to do with the rest of the pozzed shit.

 

[ColonelCadaver]

The chairs are actually so powerful that you're worse off not having one

>advantage vs tipping over, ramming and autopilot

d&d xistas.......

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

>advantage vs tipping over, ramming and autopilot

Don't forget the part where it gives you a 30ft fly speed and the ability to hover in the air.

 

[Sayer of the N-Word]

There is a crippled nigger in this piece of Strixhaven promotional art. I don't know if this actually appears in the book because I would rather blow my brains out than read that shit.

 

[Henri Barbusse]

Yeah I'm sure it's because they were cribbing from greek mythology and had nothing to do with the rest of the pozzed shit.

They were cribbing from every lazy fantasy polytheism that is itself badly cribbed from greek mythology and accidentally arrived at something that's not too bad on its own.

 

[ColonelCadaver]

this piece of Strixhaven promotional art

Ok guys, hear me out...

that's not too bad on its own.

idk, at my table there were jokes about golarion being "the most skipped setting ever". Doesn't grab the imagination.

 

[Brain Problems]

What can you get people to play? 5e? I'll stick with my autism simulator.

You'd be surprised how much fun people have with CoC and it's way fucking simpler to run than D&D imo. It's just there's a headache in getting people to try something different but you're gonna run across this no matter what you do.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

idk, at my table there were jokes about golarion being "the most skipped setting ever". Doesn't grab the imagination.

Not Mystara?

 

[ColonelCadaver]

Not Mystara?

That's a strong contender, for sure.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

That's a strong contender, for sure.

If it weren't for Mr Welch I doubt anyone would even know what it is tbf. Although I think I agree with you that Golarion (at least what very little I can recall about it) is a setting that deserves to be forgotten.