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They keep saying "White men" in a derogatory way, yet going around pretending not to be sexist and racist. What a bunch of distinguished people we have here.

"The game was made by racists, now give us money you racists" - lizards of the coast

It's crazy how they think me as a white man is a threat somehow, I'm just eating cereal in my underwear wondering what I did to become a final boss level villan.

"D&D teaches us diversity is a strength". B.S . D&D teaches TEAMWORK and PLANNING is a strength, regardless of diversity. Thats what it taught back in the 70's. I know, I was there.

What the hell is the point of entertainment anymore if there's no escapism or actual entertainment

FYI, the petition to cancel Assassin's Creed Shadows reached over 79K signatures.

"white, middle class men" "straight white men" they say these with the same disdain and connotation as "nazi"

This is how "Sensitivity Readers" and "Consultants" make their money.If they can't parasitize from companies, they don't eat. It's not like they have any other marketable skills.

Go Woke, Go Broke isn't an anti-progressive battle cry but it is pattern recognition.

It's only cultural appropriation when they don't do it. But when they do it, it's a "great triumph" as they get to break whatever it is to suit their tastes.

My friend’s old D&D guide books from the 80s and 90s suddenly appreciated in value.

activists finding out that medieval europe was full ouf europeans: 🤯🤯

“Evil is incapable of creation, it can only corrupt and destroy”

What Wizards Of The Coast did to Dungeons and Dragons on its 50th anniversary is utterly disgraceful as if they haven't gone too far or low enough.

They despise and demonize you yet desperately want you to feel bad when they lose their jobs. Flawless logic.

I hate the modern audience. I really wished wokeness never got a foothold anywhere.

Don't forget about Crunchyroll completely getting rid of their comments section because they don't like what people are saying about the woke slop.

The Lords of D&D have perished. But in their absence a score of talentless clowns usurped their throne. Chaos has been sewn by their passing... So sayeth the wise Alaundo.

God this video makes me so mad. I don't know who wrote that book, but they have NO RIGHT to go back into works done nearly 50 years ago and imbue them with racial undertones. Who gave that person the right to defame Gary's work like this? 😠

The only thing that will speak to the company is if we don't buy the game, but 90% of gamers don't care about game politics or never seen it to begin with. So long as the people fighting back against these companies are such a minority they won't change.

I can only imagine what Gary Gygax would say if he saw what Hasbro/WOTC has done to DnD. Also let's never forget Hasbro/WOTC sent The Pinkertons after a fan for having unreleased cards to his house.

Ah yes, because gary offended the mass amount of orks living in suburban Wuuuaaaaaggghhh! Town with his offensive depiction of them.

Woke is not little more than brainrot, it's practically nothing more than brainrot.

“The wages of woke is broke!” - H. Cthulhu

I'm a Messianic Jew, and I play D&D with an Arab guy from Saudi Arabia. We both love the same kinds of stories. Our characters do things like eating pork, even though neither of us eat pork in real life. Neither of us find that offensive, because it's the character living in a fantasy world.

It does not need to be saved, just keep the old books and lore and ignore the new stuff, and let the grand wizards of the woke go broke. Then maybe the franchise can be restored by people who actually care to honor and respect it.

Great thing about dnd, house rules always win. Internet is also full of PDF's you can get of the books. Just because the manual says that orcs are exactly the same as Elves, or you get a +2 non binary bonus, doesn't mean you as dungeon master have to allow it.

Remember when Starfield stans were like " its just pronouns bro, why do you care so much". And then banned and removed any mods or creators that made mods removing them?

The good part about DnD is that most people tend to uphold that "legacy content" that wotc seems to hate so much.

cultural appropriation. My favorite attack is when POCs say white people have no culture. Oh really, you forgot all about all the coolest sports, best movies, coming up with cartoon animation, elevating music in the classic era, some of the best stories/books/epics, vidya games, table top, dnd, etc.

the fact that Odin shows up in FF in general always warmed my heart. It's a nod towards Nordic culture. D&D bringing up Vishnu is a cool nod to Hinduism why can't they appreciate things?

I cant wait for the mind virus to die out. The fact theyre publishing what is effectively a history tome about a game, but have to put a disclaimer on it, proves theyve lost their minds and have no respect for the intelligence of their audience.

The OGs may be gone, but we will never abandon their legacy.

The acolytes of the Frankfurt School are an albatross around the neck of Humanity.

"Don't portray people killing deities!" Smite just chillin in the corner XD

Simply having to explain basic things like 'freedom of creativity' is actually desirable, or that products are made with 'target customers' in mind, is kind of infuriating. We live under a new kind of inquisition watch nowadays... feels like we're devolving.🤮

Secrets of Blackmoor is the real history of D&D's creation. If you can watch the movie, do so. Support the people who made it, because they tell the real story.

Hot take, we should gatekeep journalist/political women off of videogames because their views do not align to how we perceive good videogames. They completely proven our point so many times thanks to Alyssa Mercante and Sweet Baby Inc.

"Slanderous" was the right word. This attempt at revisionism is the worst type of gaslighting, making Kuntz defend himself against intentionally specious attacks, where the act of creating any defense makes it look like a defense was necessary in the first place. "No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance." -- Alan Bullock

if they find D&D so morally objectionable why do they sell it? they really need to work on their morals.

Vishnu has a stat block. Zeus has a stat block. Thor has a stat block. Everyone has a stat block in case a dungeon master wants a balanced way of using them in their campaign. Granted, there's a murderhobo saying "if it has a stat block, I can kill it" and that is an individual thing.

I have no sympathy for the devs here, when they had the gender swap mod taken off Nexus they proved their just as woke as Sweet Baby.

Funny how I was an original player of the original D&D. I played the game with boys and girls. There was NEVER one single thought that the game was not inclusive or that there weren’t enough girls. These new people rewriting D&D have no fucking clue about the game! There should be a law that no original content can be changed.

Gary will live forever in the hearts of those who have been playing D&D since the early days as well as those who have come to love the environs of the HackMaster RPG, knowing with love and reverence as Garweeze Wurld. The truth cannot be so easily destroyed. Fight the good fight, Mr. Kuntz...we stand with you.

THIS IS why Larian decided not to go further with the bg Ip... they knew how bad things are or were gonna become

Robert is a fuckin gangster. You can tell by his speech to WoC that he clearly helped create D&D, such wordsmithing

Making d&d inclusive is like saying air isn’t for everyone. It’s an rpg where you make whatever you want. D&D is already the most inclusive thing ever. These people are ridiculous.

funny thing about d&d is that you don't need anyone's supervision to play it

Man they hate that you have to fight Vishnu. I wonder what they think about the SMT franchise where you collect demons and gods as pokemons.

We need send 700 Sonichu medallions to Sweet Baby INC headquarters

BG3 was already woke trash. People saying it isn't are just in denial about it.

I always smile at fact that DnD is more of framework for stories, so whatever Wizards of the Coast will enforce doesn't really matter... their universum is pretty much out of control of their hands and if they continue... it's not hard to copy DnD and make world of your own. Wizards of the Coast don't hold any rights to races or medieval fantasy genre as it is so I wouldn't worry about it. All franchises clearly need to rot out for fresh and uncorrupt breath to come in.

The people who were mad about Vishnu must have had meltdowns playing Shin Megami Tensei and Persona games.

Being an American means that I am free to appropriate any culture I damned well please, any or all of them.

I gave up on DnD, and went on to Savage Worlds and Traveller. The only way I can ever give DnD a shot again, is if WoTC goes bankrupt and the IP gets purchased by someone not connected to this mess in any way. Maybe then there will be hope

The great thing about DnD is that it has a large degree of flexibility in the storytelling and gameplay. When we play we don't have to acknowledge any changes that Wizards of the coast make to it and can continue to play it the way we always have. Just don't bother buying any of their new books and use the stuff you like that the fanbase makes and support those individuals. If the woke stuff doesn't sell they won't be able to afford to keep making it and it will go away. This is how companies work. We shackle them with the almighty dollar.

Evil can never create, it can only corrupt.

LotR "anime": She can communicate with Eagles eh? Why stop there? Make her be able to summon giant mechs and be the only one able to use guns and pilot those giant mechs. They already broke Tolkien's world.

Yes woke is horrible but so are restrictions on what you can say or type. We have now apparently reached the point where someone's name is unable to be spelled out correctly. His name is Kuntz, nothing offensive it is simply his name. Did you really have to put a star in his name?

Ah yes. The evil wokism. Such a powerful enemy

Evil cannot create anything new, it can only corrupt and ruin...

We got to find a way to kick them out of our franchises and keep them from ever coming back

As a 22 year old, I don’t feel responsible, but I do feel betrayed by others that are my age. Wokeness feels more about putting others down than picking others up.

Plus Gary Gygax was a Christian, so he gets extra negative modifiers to his DEI stats.

For ignoring Disney, you get a hundy. Thank you sir 👏🏼

Nothing new should be made in the Lord of the Rings universe, ever, the works of Tolkien as written BY Tolkien, is all that should EVER exist. I do NOT want anyone creating new content for Tolkiens works and claiming it as canon.

Oldschool AD&D DM here. I've rejected all D&D products made since WotC bought it. I knew what was coming.

I am clearly one of the last people on this planet that doesn't care if other people have a different belief system and want to communicate it. Sure, you could call that 'having an agenda' or 'shoving it down my throat'. But you can also let it flow through you without emotions and grab nuggets of wisdom while it does. If it contains nuggets at all. And if it doesn't, then you also learned something. Did y'all know that 25 years ago almost everybody did this?

As a non binary bi-PoC (aboriginal & inuit), wheelchair bound, neurodivergant, cross eyed, su-s-sufferer of a stutter who is also the parent of a left handed, red haired, fur-baby, trans-agist 38 year old who identifies as a toddler I fear the direction with which our country is going!

No, DnD can’t be saved. I’ve got enough 5e books and they got increasingly woke as they went on. A Dragonlance campaign with no mention of Raislin, Carmen, Tanis, etc? Nope, got to replace them with a diverse group of nobodies riding their coattails then burying their existence. WoC won’t see another dime from me.

Your Harry Potter recast theory seems pretty accurate. I’ve done the same for the Lego Bionicle franchise: If that were rebooted today, Gali would be the leader, Tahu would be a woman, Kopaka would be autistic, and Lewa and Pohatu would be gay. Only Onua could stay the way he is - because he’s black. 😂 But there’s one thing making this unlikely: Lego are Danish. The Danes are comparatively based. Even though Lego caved in to the “cultural appropriation” Maōri lawsuit back in the day - but that was in the early 2000s, long before any wokester had even come up with the term “cultural appropriation”.

3:12 - conventionally attractive = normal, not fat, not purple/green hair, not pierced

WotC is really gonna freak out when they learn about the Shin Megami Tensei series.

Like most things, there are multiple reasons why things happen, not just one uber-simple explanation. As an old TTRPG player who played with black people in the late 70s, here are the real reasons why they didn't play much D&D: 1) Less exposure: fantasy movies weren't mainstream, there was almost no anime, no internet, barely any videogames, and the only people interested in playing "fantasy" were people who actively read fantasy novels (which had just started to grow in popularity). While some black men got exposed to gaming in the military, fewer black people were going to college, which was the other place RPGs spread by word of mouth. Black people didn't grow up with fantasy, so they weren't interested in playing a game that simulated fantasy. 2) Smaller demographic: Black people are only 10% of the US population, and in the places the games started (Wisconsin/Minnesota), they are even smaller minorities. They made up even less of the player base. Once the game spread to the coasts, you started to see some people get into it, but it was still a smaller number. Good luck being a black teen looking for other black teens to play the weird "elf" game with... 3) Cultural disinterest: Per #1, black people didn't like Fantasy very much. They liked music, movies, comedy and sports (guys played a lot of sports). If you're a black male teen, you played basketball to socialize with your friends, get fit, and impress girls (being cool was a higher priority culturally, than being a scrawny fantasy nerd). Most hardcore black boardgamers played things like Chess, not esoteric wargames. 4) It wasn't cool: fantasy and nerd chic culture didn't exist. It was stigmatized, and you got bullied for it. Often, people kept their interest secret to avoid this. 5) Religion: black people were much more religious (esp. Baptist or Pentecostal) and there was a Satanic Panic going on -- D&D was considered evil by fundamentalists, and it was harder for black kids to participate without getting discriminated against -- by other black people. 6) Cost: game books cost about the same back then: adjusted for inflation, $150 for 3 game books, extra for dice, and other accessories, plus you had to find other people who were into playing. Black teens from less well off families had a harder time affording the game. If you asked your mom for books for Christmas, she'd shake her head, and give you baseball or basketball equipment, and tell you to go outside and play a big group game with your friends that only required a free playground and one ball. Maybe they'd invest in football equipment, to help get a sports scholarship for college. Not D&D books -- no way. Of course, you could just chalk it all up to Wh*te S*premacy.

5 years ago I became severely disabled due to an accident I had me being a disabled man I find it extremely offensive that companies try to glorify this condition there's nothing cool about this I understand advocating but there are better places to do it than in video games and in movies

Woke need to be illegal

These people are the absolute worst!

That og dnd creator deserves a medal

This is one reason why OD&D, BECMI, and AD&D 1st Edition are the only true D&D's

no offence but baldurs gate 3 realy is the most over-rated game out there i cant think of a game that was getting more praises from a game that clearly wasnt it / good / great at all not the worse game ive seen but the most over-rated for sure and baldurs gate was getting killed off by woke back with BGEE SoD and such sooo

The only silver lining to this book is that its so damn overt in all of this that it helps me feel a bit less like a hermit conspiracy theorist the last few years. The worst part is I dont think WOTC believes in any of what they are doing at all beyond a bottom line and social media interactions. Its not out of genuine concern. Yes they hire fanatics in a valut tech esq way but at the top WOTC is an ultra predatory corporation and has been since they got Magic Money. What has hurt the most is being in communities with Gary's kids, old TSR artists and Dragon staff etc. They are people who I talk with about AD&D weekly along with the rest of our 1st ed community. They are hurting and it's apparent. The heroes of my childhood so to speak, who led me to my career and who made a game that literally saved my life years ago. When I was young, playing AD&D was a thing you kept secret, it was the place where all the misc social group kids found a place. We didn't need to agree politically, we didn't have to be friends really, we didn't even have to really like you. If you played and kept to the table rules you were welcome at the table no questions asked. You were one of us and nothing else mattered. Even if we had nothing to do with each other in real life, we had each others backs at the table or out in the world. Anyone was welcome at the table and it was a bond we all shared that carried through. Its disingenuous of wotc to play this tactic at all, and their point of view is certainly making the community smaller and more polarized by the day, it's not bringing more people to the table. Instead of the old guard passing on the torch to the new generation and finding common ground in the game we all love, they have split the game entirely with the older players keeping to themselves and from this book etc. its now pretty damn clear its because we don't have a place in the modern game at all. They don't want to discuss points of view, they don't want our money, they just want anyone who remembers how this all really was and how WOTC got where they are now. I think saying they want to erase the reality of the history of D&D certainly is true and they want us players to be erased too. They are also cowards and unwilling to allow any counterpoint at all so have set it up that any criticism of mechanics or content will instantly set off Trevor's Axiom of Trolling with B chiming in an inflammatory way to get guy C to defend guy A, which gets guys D-Z to hop on too. There will never be a constructive discussion about the game itself in these situations but it sure does magnify the reach of their marketing. its all just heartbreaking to be honest.

The disclaimer is fucking disgusting

When you get down to it, the original creators of D&D are being derided for having a genuine if misguided appreciation of other cultures and mythologies instead of having the money to hire a host of consultancy groups and sensitivity readers. Classism at its finest.

I don’t know why people are still shocked I’ve been saying this forever when they went after Lovecraft said he was evil racist but then took his work to make money off it while calling him a bigot he’s evil anyway we took his stuff give me money

Those who can't create for themselves and are bitter at those who can, often try to insert themselves in after the fact and corrupt was created by those with actual talent, especially when the creators are no longer able to push back.

The louder they get, means, more they are failing, the loudest ones are always the most unsuccessful ones, it will all come crashing and burning at one point same as it always does ^_^

Baldur's Gate 3 was an amazing game. Woke Lunatics had to ruin everything.

I see the losers are finally brave enough to call bg3 woke now that it's less popular to support the game because everyone already enjoyed and finished the game.

I hate how this bs is gonna be around for a long time. You remove the groups, and the individuals scatter and infect other things like a disease. They will never learn or change their ways.

Just because his last name shares the same pronunciation as a "Slur" doesn't mean its a slur too. For the newer players that want to search him up to see more of his work and support him because he's base, his name is Robert J Kuntz

Here's how DnD can be saved... you're the DM, you make rule changes for your table, people who want to play it will play... if you want to institute dnd 5e or 4e or 3e for character creation stats, you can.. you just have to put in the work to do it.

We let soft, weak, millenials into our hobby because we were criticized for "gatekeeping" them. Since we didn't gatekeep, this is what happens. You MUST gatekeep hobbies. Always.

The killing gods part is kind of a weak argument. Greek and Nordic mythologies are… mythologies. Maybe in 3000 years from now, Islam and Christianity will be studied as ancient mythologies. The problem arises where you have a very significant amount of people who still follow Hinduism. I guarantee people would be pissed off about a game where you killed Jesus in some fantastical setting. Nobody cares about Odin being fought because he isn’t a religious figure to any significant amount of people, not even Nordic people. Same with the Greek gods because 81% of Greeks are Christians, while 14% are atheists and the other 5% are whatever else.

If I was already not a fan of this crap now this easily makes me not want to play this shit even more.

0:54 The 50th DnD anniversary book is WotC's Mein Kampf.

18:58 Welp, somebodys gotta break the bad news to drinker

Endymion, just so you know, that disclaimer has been in place for years on sites like Drive-thru rpg, where you could download old modules and books from past editions. WotC had them attach that b.s. modern disclaimer to anything pre-woke, pre-5e.

I felt that the future of DnD was in question when Wizards bought them in the first place. Something about them just never seeemed right.

DnD 3.5 was the best edition, Wizards hit gold as soon as they were acquired by Hasbro in 2000 but have been falling off ever since. Also Ed Greenwood, creator of the Forgotten Realms is a legend.