How Will WOTC New Approach to Races Effect the Future CRPG?

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I'm expecting to everyone starts as a transparent blob. No race, no skin, no size, no gender, no sex. Nothing. Only a blob. That's the future.

The ultimate consumer has no identity. This lowers production costs, because you don't have to develop products for groups with different common traits.

 

[AwesomeButton]

The alignment system comes from Michael Moorcock's Elric more than anything. The entire Lawful/Neutral/Chaotic and Good/Neutral/Evil axis specifically. Elric was Chaotic Good at best and Chaotic Neutral at worst.

The term races is not just an American thing. Plenty of Europeans used the entire race thing as well to push for eugenics. It's only a problem now because the SJWs are extremely racist and want to hide that racism.

I mean eugenics beats malgenetics. Peeps gonna eugenics on the sly whatever you do, might as well get that shit above board.

No the alignment system comes from the whole of human history. Law and the Good predate Moorcock for fuck's sake.

Picking an intelligent and attractive mate of the opposite sex is already eugenics btw. Mindblowing for the purplehairs.

 

[Cryomancer]

Why isn’t there an emerging based alternative for the declining TTRPG?

And there is. OSR games are becoming more and more popular. The decline in TT is so big that if D&D 4E was launched today, it would be a success. Look to Paizo, they got a massive success by cloning 3E while WoTC was going full balance cultism route and now are copying 4E and 5E with PF2E.

Here is a review of a OSR game. We need more games like this and Lamentations of the Flame princess. And less woke BS.

Supplement in 1992: 200 page book about a single class, tons of lore, introduces a dozen kits, equipment, etc.,

Supplement in 2022: here's some optional rules or something idk

Yep. I really miss TSR...

Picking an intelligent and attractive mate of the opposite sex is already eugenics btw. Mindblowing for the purplehairs.

The modern government exists to promote disgenics.

"cancel culture" exists specifically to prevent this.

Some people do triumph over cancel culture. Many members of the "comics gate" are getting a lot of money. Blade Devil from RAging Golden eagle got US$330k https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/blade-devil-ghosts-of-the-past-graphic-novel#/

But is a matter of time till crippling regulations come and the entertainment industry will be monopolized by few woke companies with strong association with activist investors(like FriendlyMerchant hu3hu3 jk). BTW, I've a opportunity to ask my boss in a informal conversation what he would do if the government imposes affirmative action programs in his company, he said that he would leave his country, most of our clients are from outside of our country.

 

[Camel]

"Just make your own multi-million dollar company and world renowned TTRPG IP, bro."

Even when you make it we will destroy it in one fell swoop if we feel it’s too popular like Parler.

 

[octavius]

And there is. OSR games are becoming more and more popular. The decline in TT is so big that if D&D 4E was launched today, it would be a success. Look to Paizo, they got a massive success by cloning 3E while WoTC was going full balance cultism route and now are copying 4E and 5E with PF2E.

That's all geek to me.

 

[Cryomancer]

And there is. OSR games are becoming more and more popular. The decline in TT is so big that if D&D 4E was launched today, it would be a success. Look to Paizo, they got a massive success by cloning 3E while WoTC was going full balance cultism route and now are copying 4E and 5E with PF2E.

That's all geek to me.

But are quite interesting. I really loved the cryomancer in that book. "but is way worse than the vanilla magician", I know, but who cares? If something is suboptimal but fun, why not? Sure, losing a lot of spells and in a campaign where there are a lot of undeads, I can see it as the worst magic specialization but fun non the less. BTW, a mere zombie in this game is not like a weak 5E zombie.

If Woketards made a class like that, it would't have any drawback, would't lose spell options, have penalty to save vs fire and so on. And yes, a normal magician can chose between 33 tier 1 spells to learn, a cryomancer, only 18.

 

[Serus]

Well it's a fantasy world. Unlike the real world good and evil can actually exist in the flesh and not just in the abstract, I don't see the need to change that. Create your own universe and rule-set if it's so horrible with good and evil.

That's the atheism (or maybe rather materialism) talking. Just saying.

 

[notpl]

It won't. RPG makers already couldn't help themselves when it came to making noble "I'm not like the other girls" orcs/drow/whatever else in prior editions, and if somebody wants to write a simple plot where there's a big scary tribe of monster people that all attack you on sight in 5e, they're going to do it anyway. Hope this helps.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

WOTC??

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I forget, that's objectifying and the bluehairs feel shamed.