Ragitsu

It is not up to entertainment - and one based around entirely fictional realms, to boot - to coddle the impressionable and educate the ignorant; that is why parents and schools exist. Escapism makes for poor tuition. A person who cannot differentiate between goblins and real-life breathing and bleeding human beings is saddled with a problem that goes beyond the scope of a rectangular piece of wood adorned with countless Cheeto stains.
 
From attempting to placate the fundamentally religious to quelling the fundamentally sensitive, D&D kowtowing has never been a net positive.

While skimming The Sword of the Dales, I stumbled upon this entry for a random encounter ->
 
 
 
This is part of an adventure for characters ranging from Levels 1 to 4, so, even though statistics are provided, the outcome is made plain for all to see. A nice bit of dark humor.

I thought at first that Peter Jackson was that person. Then The Hobbit trilogy happened.

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https://clutterreport.wordpress.com/2021/01/31/book-report-hyperspace-a-choose-your-own-adventure-book/
 
There's also this...
 
https://www.cracked.com/article_22188_7-choose-your-own-adventure-books-clearly-conceived-lsd.html

It is not up to entertainment - and one based around entirely fictional realms, to boot - to coddle the impressionable and educate the ignorant; that is why parents and schools exist. Escapism makes for poor tuition. A person who cannot differentiate between goblins and real-life breathing and bleeding human beings is saddled with a problem that goes beyond the scope of a rectangular piece of wood adorned with countless Cheeto stains.
 
From attempting to placate the fundamentally religious to quelling the fundamentally sensitive, D&D kowtowing has never been a net positive.

While skimming The Sword of the Dales, I stumbled upon this entry for a random encounter ->
 
 
 
This is part of an adventure for characters ranging from Levels 1 to 4, so, even though statistics are provided, the outcome is made plain for all to see. A nice bit of dark humor.

It is not up to entertainment - and one based around entirely fictional realms, to boot - to coddle the impressionable and educate the ignorant; that is why parents and schools exist. Escapism makes for poor tuition. A person who cannot differentiate between goblins and real-life breathing and bleeding human beings is saddled with a problem that goes beyond the scope of a rectangular piece of wood adorned with countless Cheeto stains.
 
From attempting to placate the fundamentally religious to quelling the fundamentally sensitive, D&D kowtowing has never been a net positive.

Social “Justice” is not justice at all. It should be scrapped thrown into the garbage dump.

I don't think that's a good idea, with Tencent, being ye another arm of the Chinese Communist Party. On the plus side SOcial JUstice will be removed from the property, but on the other it will be nerfed to cater to Chinese sensibilities. But since having shifted the weekend games over to Pathfinder 2 I won't miss anything.

And they wander through fandoms one by one, to make sure the geek world complies.

Why not just move forward and have technology alongside the other trappings of fantasy?
 
It just feels wrong for fantasy magic to be "science".
 
In Glorantha, there is no germ theory, disease is caused by disease spirits. I have increasingly refused to allow magic to be used in scientific ways, or for scientific principles to reliably reproduce results. 🙂
 
 

I just had this really goofy idea. I need some soldiers for my fantasy game. I have a bunch of AD&D character cards, which list the NPCs' hit points, armor class, etc. They usually don't list the attributes, so instead of rolling them, I'll take a character I rolled up for the Traveller system because of the military service track. The problem is that Traveller uses 2d6 for stats, while AD&D uses 3d6. So I'll use one of my MERP products that has a conversion chart to adapt systems to the module.

"You and I have very different ideas of what constitutes 'protection'."

If they're not Lawful Good, they're not the real McCoy.

I forgot how sexy Ally Walker's voice is.

You can skip the last minute or so, as it's just the sponsor's ad.
 
 

"You and I have very different ideas of what constitutes 'protection'."