There's always some thread(s) or other of low-effort culture war bait, and it's always full of "Seeth chud, you lost" and people complaining about people complaining about people complaining about politics.We already know about the Kyle Brink quote, we all know about the combat wheelchair, we all know about the no-racists-allowed not-particularly-fine print in every sourcebook. Fresh material, please.ITT: Stories about that time the SJWs killed the vibe of your game. IRL, face-to-face ONLY, no VTT / Discord stuff.The following did not specifically happen, but would be an excellent example of the vibe being killed if it did, and happened to (me), and it happened in meatspace.>The antitoxin retards the progression of the venom->NONO WORD! NONO WORD! Someone used a nono word, I'm telling!but it didn't so it doesn't count.
https://youtu.be/Vz-W0dFppss?si=kV-70bFSMkBmW6Mnthe leftoids infiltrating this board can't stand this one
I'm sure you could find some youtube channel for your rage porn
>>97598130You first. Unless you don’t play games and are just content farming.>>97598148Ah, so THAT’s the channel this is all going towards. Some no-name loser on YouTube. Go buy an ad if you’re so desperate, you shill.
Meatspace RPG groups are going to be heavily socially sorted, and any social group that contained both SJWs and Anti-SJWs would have already had their big blowout long before anyone sat down at a table together. So unfortunately it's all the shadowboxing trench warfare of SJWs doing obnoxious things, a non-SJW complaining, and three articles being written about the savage harassment of queer women of color by racist chuds.One thing I'll note is that I've seen very, very few actual People of Color playing tiefling-tea-party games. Oh, they've got the full gender spectrum of straight women who hate men, queer women who hate men, men who dress as women, women who dress as ugly women, and so on. But the only time I've seen anyone non-white involved with the rolling of dice, wokeness was either absent or a subject of ridicule.
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>There's always some thread(s) or other of low-effort culture war bait, and it's always full of "Seeth chud, you lost" and people complaining about people complaining about people complaining about politics.Is there?
>>97598234Yes, and it's currently this thread
>>97598130I made all these threads (freakshit, level 3, session 0, etc). >assert an opinion on some culture war thing in 1-2 sentences>google "dnd woke" or "dnd queer" to find an image to go with it>ragebait the first 1-2 replies>wait>thread hits bump limit as autistic troglodytes argue about the ethics of pretending to be a queer warlock tiefling that takes SSRIs, in a literal make-believe cringefest game/tg/ deserves this.
>>97598130I've actually got a story like that. I've regularly run The Champion's Belt from Age of Worms as a module: In brief, the Champion's Belt is that the PCs are fighting as gladiators in an annual tournament, while trying to look for a girl who has gone missing (and has in fact been murdered and reanimated as a zombie) in their off-hours. But the highlights of the module are the Championship Belt fights, notably a four-way fight in the opening bout and the final battle which gets interrupted by a giant undead worm demon trying to murder the players.I had one player who went "DM, there's too much violence against women in this module. Can you tone it down a bit?"So I take a look and maybe she's right - To clarify, the changes I usually make to the module are as follows.The opening fight has a Druid and his henchman, a team of all-female Elven archers, and an Arabian rider and his lancers all fighting each other. I usually make the Arabian rider a woman instead, because it makes the PCs more interested in interacting with her.Also, the subsequent fight, Pitch Blade, is against a pair of Dwarven Barbarians. I usually change it to a female human Barbarian and a Blackguard, since no-one really cares about Dwarves (who don't have speaking roles in the original module).
>>97598299So I say "Okay, fine - I'll change the Arabian team back to guys and Pitch Blade back to guys, okay"? The player says she doesn't want that, she still wants them to be female, but she doesn't want violence to be enacted against them. I say that you're supposed to fight this team anyway, don't worry about it.This becomes a really stupid argument about how you shouldn't remove women from an adventure when they weren't there in the first place. Ultimately, it boils down to:> "I want women to have a prominent role in the module, but I don't want them to be defeated or prominently injured" which is impossible because the NPC they're looking for has already been turned into the zombie servant of a dark priest.Ultimately, I just threw my hands up and booted the player. I've already found another one, but this was fucking frustrating as hell. I never thought I'd have to deal with people like that, and honestly it's left a bad taste.Now I curate my group more carefully than ever before, I don't want to run games for people like that. This was the first time shit like that came to my table.
>>97598211I had recently moved and was looking into the local RPG scene. I found a bar that had a drop-in D&D night.The games I played in were really, really bad. Games ran between 7 and 11, so after breaks and dickaround there was at best 3.5 hours of gametime. Yet every adventure started with the players having to meet eachother by happenstance, talk about their backstories, dick around in town, find a questgiver, and all agree to go on the quest. One guy said "NO, my character wouldn't be interested in this quest, you'll have to convince me." And instead of leaving his ass in town, as I suggested, they wasted 30 minutes "roleplaying" their cajolling of Narcissus McContrarian. Then there was something involving the feywild, and we fought one hag. The fight had zero stakes because we were fully-charged 5th-level 5e characters having their first encounter of the day. Two out of Ten, Would Not Recommend.But what really struck me was just how godsdamned un-fucking-pleasant everyone there was out of game. I tried asking about any good books they'd read lately, and every single one was described as "Omg, it's so queer, you have to read it." People would ask rules questions, someone else would answer the question, and then the asker or a third party would accuse the answerer of mansplaining. One guy(?) talked about the "disgusting bigot" that lives next door to him(?). Something-something free palestine, so-and-so is a Gatekeeper, toxic this, privilege that.None of this was directed at me, I was in sociological observation mode.These people live in the hipster bohemian neighborhood of a deep-blue major metro area, yet they would not shut the fuck up about the nazis and fascists and entitled mediocre straight white men that apparently lurk under every paving stone and behind every lamp post, on their fucking play-pretend-elves gamenight.
>>97598130In our campaign we rescued a princess, and one of the PCs could not stop telling her to implement reforms and bring about a kind of Communist utopia. It was clear that the princess didn't give a shit and was annoyed that this crazy woman was bothering her, until she bluntly said:>"I have peasants to do things for me."This led to an instant argument about how it was sexist for a woman to be perfectly content with being (you know) a princess and not nursing Marxist fantasies. It got the player kicked, so I guess we can consider this a win.
I grieve for the loss of the poster count, every day.
>>97598130>We already know about the Kyle Brink quoteI don't.I also truly, fundamentally don't care. I don't know who Kyle Brink is. I'm not especially interested in who Kyle Brink is. His name sounds like the alias a 12 year old tries to adopt.But OP. I want you to know something - you're a massive, colossal faggot. I hope whatever dogshit youtube channel you're trying to get an "epic 4chan screencap" for gets demonitized. I hope your adsense account gets banned. I hope that your patreon doesn't just get banned, I hope they report false information to the IRS about how much you made. I hope you get fucking audited. I hope it lasts for fucking years.You're probably a dipshit that thinks "oh this lefty is so triggered." But I don't give a shit about your politics, and that's why you're annoying me. Because you're coming into my gaming space and going "aren't we right wingers such based chuds. aren't we all huge chads" and you don't realize how fucking annoying you are.I do not give a shit about politics, and that includes your bullshit.
>>97598130You first, OP. You do have stories, right? You play games, don't you?
>>97598342>I do not give a shit about politics>I JUST WANNA DRINK MUH BEER>DRIVE MUH TRUCK>WEAR MUH BOOTS>WALK MUH DOG>CATCH MUH FISHYou are a FAGGOT!
>>97598304There was also a lot of social stratification.I should say that the guy who organized the event was quite amiable. He recognized me as a veteran and a potential DM, made an effort to integrate me, and said nothing disparaging towards any group that I can recall. His biggest sin was being...a bit Reddit. (Upon reflection, they were ALL Reddit). The two big tables were full of visibly-fabulous people. At least half of the PCs were Tieflings, and I specifically remember someone declaring their character was non-binary. So yes, they were indeed a non-binary tiefling warlock. Then there was a third table for leftovers who for whatever reason didn't make it in to the tiefling tea party. They were all conventional-looking dudes. None of the fabulous folx would leave their over-stuffed (7+) tables for this third one, so the organizer guy himself sat in to make a 4th player after his attempts to balance the tables failed.I observed a woman who was loudly swiping through dudes' Hinge profiles on her phone and shitting on them. A guy next to her asked "Have you ever been on a Hinge date?">"Chuh, no. I don't want to get Assaulted."she said without looking at him. I think she turned away a bit in her seat.Then a guy on the other side of her mentioned being gay (this wasn't immediately obvious, he looked like 20something Charlie Day). Immediately she leaned towards him, chin in her hand, dreamy loving gaze in her eyes.I won't lie, a major reason why I was considering continuing to attend was that the group's gender ratio meant that I might actually meet a biological woman there who shared interests with me, and I'd be DMing. To the tiny degree that it's possible to get laid via tabletop RPGs, it's gonna happen via DMing. This last observation kinda nixed that motivation.
>>97598342>I do not give a shit about politics, and that includes your bullshit.To be fair it was the leftists who made RPGs exceedingly political first. >/pol/ didn't introduce trigger warnings or the X-card in games>/pol/ didn't try and remove seppuku from L5R because it was "culturally insensitive">/pol/ didn't equate orcs with blacks>/pol/ wasn't the one who rewrote Curse of Strahd to make Strahd a homo and to give the cripples a bit of spit-and-polish.>/pol/ didn't invent the combat wheelchair, or claim that cripples would be useful in combat.>/pol/ didn't petition for the complete removal of any mention of slavery from the Pathfinder setting>/pol/ didn't post that hilariously bad 5E errata.>/pol/ didn't remove the Confederacy from Deadlands>/pol/ didn't start an international incident by claiming that vampires were responsible for the gay death camps in Chechnya.>/pol/ didn't write the incredibly cringey antifa rants in the latest edition of Vampire>/pol/ didn't invent Fruity Rudy, the gay black antifa Muslim Gangrel Anarch>/pol/ didn't push for the removal of always-Evil races from D&D>/pol/ didn't equate orcs with blacks>/pol/ didn't write stuff like Sigmata or Ugly Sword Trannies>/pol/ wasn't the one who invented two new cities of drow, because the drow being evil was 'racist'.>/pol/'s not the one pushing for more diversity in RPGs>/pol/ wasn't the one who did that cringey 'Warhammer is for Everyone' announcement>/pol/ didn't force White Wizard Games to change the name to Wise Wizard Games>/pol/ didn't want female Custodes in 40KThose were all political actions done by terminally-online leftists.You made games political. You wanted RPGs to reflect your values, and in doing so turned them into part of the culture war.A pushback isn't only to be expected, it's the right course of action for all non-insane people.
>>97598304always loved this Esteren pic
>>97598303So, was it articulated out loud in plain language that she wants the enemies to be women, but also that women can't be harmed or defeated? Because I feel like saying it out loud should get someone to realize they're being unreasonable.
>>97598428You think it would have, but she didn't seem to get it.
>>97598342I don't have politics beyond "People should be themselves," and "Understand systems before you try to change them." While I use colorful language to describe all these people, I don't dislike them for their identities, I dislike them for their behavior (which includes their obsession with identity). You reflexively assume I'm a right-winger.
>>97598130Get a job, neckbeardia.
>ITT a bunch of idiots falling for Virt's bullshit
>>97598413interesting. has /pol/ gotten ANY wins in the TTRPG space in the last two decades?
>>97598130>lets make up shit to get mad at!Jesus fucking christ, find a real hobby!
>>97599122That implies /pol/ ever wins in the first place. The best they can do is claim ownership over somebody else's victory.
>>97598413>x-card is... le political!And they say leftists politicize everything.
>>97599122Well a bunch of that wacky woke stuff has flopped, so there's that. And there was that time GW asserted their belief in gender as a biological reality and that only actual men could undergo the Space Marine transformation. I guess the OSR scene growing, but I don't know why wokies consider that one "bigot coded" in the first place. Pretty slim pickings otherwise.
>>97598220My group in a nutshell, like 30-40% black (and rising). Our table culture is so vile it would cause a troon to combust into flames on contact. Despite our reputation, troons still want to join my games.
>>97598130who's kyle brink?
>>97598148holy fuck how embarrassing for you
>>97598303Why didn't she have a problem with violence against men?
>>97598130>muh identity politics!Please just fuck off to >>>/pol/ with this shit
>>97598354ironic.
>>97599268It is political, and leftists made it political.
>>97599281>a bunch of that wacky woke stuff has flopped, so there's that. Does that even count? Like, its not an advancement for your ideology, its just a failure of your opponent. And not even nesessarily a significant one, since a push can fail because just not enough people care to get behind it>And there was that time GW asserted their belief in gender as a biological reality and that only actual men could undergo the Space Marine transformation.I dont think anyone feels like that's set in stone these days. GW has no ethics and marines have been primaris'd before >the OSR scene growing, but I don't know why wokies consider that one "bigot coded" in the first place.Maybe just because it appeals to traditionalist nostalgia? Personally i think OSR games all suck so it seems more like a loss for everyone>Pretty slim pickings otherwise.Yeah, its a grim time for rightoids in gaming. They've got to start publishing some modules or something or the entire gaming culture will just be swept out from under them, assuming they ever led it at all
>>97598404And then everyone clapped
>>97598342>I also truly, fundamentally don't care.>*writes a three paragraph essay about it*Pick one.
>>97598148This is laced with a lot of /pol/ retardation but he's right.Tabletop is infested with theater kids who are somehow more socially retarded than your average grognard and want GMs to construct their personal little world instead of being a part of a cooperative effort. I'm glad for my semi-static group of players that are usually down for whatever. I can't imagine what it's like wading through the absolute refuse infesting Roll20 or local shops in the year 2026.
>>97598220>tiefling-tea-partyThat's hilarious.>>97599122Permanent foothold in the 40k space. Sure, Female Custodes blah blah blah, but they inspired a permanent revolt, and female Space Marines will NEVER happen. Chuds quote 40k under unrelated political videos, the Emperor is permanently associated with Trump. Several factions are chud-coded and they can't do anything about it without making it conspicuous.Space King completely won the argument with GW, and while they're also making fun of chuds, it's affectionate.It also seems like chuds won historicals by default, lefties just can't handle the subject matter unless you could only play as Red Guard and Saracens.
>>97599562>can't imagine what it's like>now let me tell you exactly how i imagine it to be like>while admitting that ive never even tried it
>>97598148>https://youtu.be/Vz-W0dFppss?si=kV-70bFSMkBmW6MnI think you just doubled the views on your vid.
>>97599541>Maybe just because it appeals to traditionalist nostalgia?Nobody likes fake nostalgia more than woke millennials. No, it's simple. Grogs = white males.And OSR gameplay is the exact opposite of the narrative-only nonsense that appeals to tourists, so they get filtered.>Yeah, its a grim time for rightoids in gaming. They've got to start publishing some modules or something or the entire gaming culture will just be swept out from under them, assuming they ever led it at allI feel like this isn't entirely good faith, but before the culture war, neither side "led" it, since a total breakdown in relations hadn't happened yet there were many chuds or people who could retroactively get thrown in the bucket (they went after Gygax, after all). TTRPGs were never right wing, but they were intolerably right wing to the current gaggle of progressives, which is a healthy place to be.>>97599617>how do you know swimming in lava is bad if you've never tried it? Checkmate, chuds.
>>97599617>deltatroon reaction imageI can see why his post upset you so much.
>>97598337Things were already irreparably bad when that was removed.
>>97598413They don't care about all that, because they can't take accountability for anything they've ever said, nor can they take responsibility for anything they've ever done. All they can do is scream about chuds and bigots, and go on interest forums to pose as disinterested third parties.
>>97599122>umm we might be acting like politically obsessed troglodytes but we're WINNINGVery Indian behavior, your Izzat has been restored. Good work.
>>97598148zamn that was the easiest report user profile picture ever
I'm disappointed. You'd think /tg/ would be overflowing with anecdotes about bad encounters with Leftists.
>>97599935 It turns out people who don't like annoying leftists.... avoid them.
>>97599935Dunno about /up tg/, but I stopped playing with retards that routinely piss me off, whether they be chud dorks or social justice dorks.
>>97599935I suppose the only people who play with them who aren't also obnoxious leftists are allies who won't let themselves think bad thoughts about Leftists no matter how obnoxious they are, because>>97598220
>>97599855>NOOOO HE HAD SQUIGGLY LINES IN HIS PICTURE HELP ME BLACK TOM
>>97598130>we all know about the no-racists-allowed not-particularly-fine print in every sourcebook.Isn't that only VtM, or do D&D and CoC now have those?
>>97599945I've just never encountered this proverbial chud nazi game, wherein colonialism is perpetrated with glee, women are raped with guffaws, and gays are thrown from great heights, all in fantasy settings that consist of lily-white europe from pole to pole and meridian to meridian.I've been in games run by /pol/ people that push dark themes that would offend a prog, but no identity groups were being bashed. We were mercenaries hired by an obviously-evil expansionist nationalist faction that was portrayed as highly organized but fundamentally incompetent, with lots of impractical one-off superweapons, who's soldiers were all hopped up on amphetamines, and we were intended to betray our employers.
>>97599935That's because as 4chan becomes more normalized, it becomes more flooded with leftists.
>>97600004Nah, I mean the guys who whinge and whine about political shit not directly involved with the game and refuse to shut up and leave it for after the game. If people want to larp as unironic nazis or antifs at their own table, I just won’t join since it would be stupid to join a table running a game I’m not as interested in.
>>97599607So Chuds won Wargaming, but SJWs won TTRPGs?
>>97600046Chuds are mad that cozy diverse non-violent LGBTQ tea-party has become the style of game that WotC officially panders to instead of making anything of quality.SJWs are mad that someone, somewhere, either isn't including people of color in their game, or IS, but is doing it while not also being of color.
>>97600004Nobody that's labeled as "right wing" and genuinely enjoys the hobby actually fantasizes about ethnic cleansing or rape, but it does show through subtly at times.In my GURPS games the players are under an authoritarian military dictatorship and they are 100% happy to support the status quo because the setting revolves around the last human city where education is based around critical thinking rather than memorization, everyone is forced to be fit or undergo a high intensity weight loss program, everyone is trained to handle firearms in defense of their city, and all the degenerates and conscientious objectors are corralled into a ward of commieblock apartments. I wasn't even trying to make a chud utopia, it just came to me as I was trying to make a good setting.
>our Dungeon Facilitator (we don't use the M-word) says the kingdom is ran by a good king>i break out into a stellar argument about how there's no such thing as a 'good' king because monarchies inherently rely on problematic power balances that are antithetical to the meritocratic nature of games about pretending to be an elf in a dungeon>the whole gaming café gets up and claps and i'm awarded free lattes for life by the cute pink-haired barista who lets me finger her after the sessionbleeding-heart conservatives and statists on s**cide watch!!
>>97600049>So Chuds won WargamingIt's more like trench warfare, both sides are dug in and take potshots at each other but nobody's going anywhere.I didn't even mean to make a TC reference but that whole dumpster fire shows that chuds haven't won by any stretch of imagination.
>>97599935Turns out chuds outannoyed leftists long ago.
>>97598130One game one of the players turned into radical feminist droneswarm, I turned into a literal attack helicopter and we chased down the last white cis-het player character down a highway. It was awesome
>>97598130They tend to stick to 5e, or PbTA games, neither of which I play, so I'm pretty filtered from them. Honestly keeping 5e as a containment game is probably the best thing you can do to have an enjoyable gaming experience. Not only will you avoid the "SJWs" you'll also avoid the furries, tumblr OC types with 20 page backstories, the Critical Role fans who expect you to be a professional level DM, ect.And yeah you'll have a smaller player pool than if you were playing 5e, but that pool of players will be higher quality. And a player refusing to play anything other than DnD 5e is usually a red flag anyway.
>>97599935Most of them don't actually play games. That's why DnD 2024 was a sales disaster. Also most people play RPGs with their friends, and those types tend to only be friends with people that agree with them. You'll know they're an activist leftist because they'll tell you within 5 minutes of meeting you. Then it's pretty easy to just not invite them to your table.
