Downloaded it, haven’t read it. May never considering my lifestyle, or may get to it when degree ends/new job is found/child goes to college/7e comes out. It joins the untouched treasures on my hard drive. This post is merely for traffic and contains little news, just some late night mumblings followed by futon crash for a few hours before 6am Japanese train rush hour.
Lots of internet stink about this thing. Goes
both ways:
HOORAH!!
The big corporate gaming monster listened
to the OSR and dialed back from 4e, then gave it out free!
BOO!!
The big corporate gaming monster has
mesmerized the OSR with its own tricks, and the ‘game’ is incomplete. (I know
about the updates, just stating current events)
HOORAH!!
WotC put in an ohmyglob actual reference to
LGBT gamers and ushered in an era of explicit gender issue acceptance in
gaming. Having seen LGBT friends go through the shitty wringer our society puts
them through, this makes me more interested in 5e than I would have been
otherwise.
BOO!!
Homophobe trolls are beating collective
chest about ‘gayed up’ game (see response to AiCN’s review for typical example),
which essentially amounts to a choice that gaming groups have been making for
40 years. Anonymous douchenozzle bigots are getting far more attention than
they deserve.
BOO!!
Some internet meanies have taken the
opportunity to beat up on Zak S, who consulted on 5e, and has the very LA habit
of speaking his mind in the most confrontational/condescending way possible.
HOORAH!!
Half the OSR has rushed to his defense, ironic
for a pundit who doesn’t particularly need it.
HOORAH!!
Hopefully the impending success of 5e will
breathe life into some other old games the deserve a major revival.
BOO!
Fat chance.
Oyasumi nasai.
"WotC put in an ohmyglob actual reference to LGBT gamers and ushered in an era of explicit gender issue acceptance in gaming. Having seen LGBT friends go through the shitty wringer our society puts them through, this makes me more interested in 5e than I would have been otherwise."
ReplyDeleteGood to see them writing about this and putting it solidly in a sourcebook. That said, I still have fond memories of my first D&D character, a homosexual Tiefling Rogue. He had all the fun.
That may be the coolest response I've ever seen on this blog. I was concerned someone might misunderstand my exhausted posting, but you sir have got it!
DeleteI honestly was more shocked that there was in fact that kind of discrimination in our-- quite honestly-- niche of a hobby. Of all the outside forces trying to break us down and make tabletop rpgs seem inconsequential or immoral, and our own kind have the gall to tell people that in fantasy universes there are beings of every spectrum of sexuality?
DeleteBlew my mind more than anything else I've seen regarding the 5e ruleset.
As I have to keep reminding myself, we are not all old friends chatting around the gaming table like in olden times, although it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking we are. We're a very diverse and divisive bunch who like gaming per se, but not the same games, rules, dice, genres etc, and we will disagree and argue at the drop of a hat. Still, it is worth braving the drama fields for the few kindred souls you do run into.
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