This Dickstarter is a bit older, but I find the premise "interesting" so fuck it:
The Watch RPG
Don't get too excited about the art. This is just
Powered by the Apocalypse, so the vast majority of the game will be about inter-party relationship bullshit.
But more importantly, let's look at the deep, evocative setting presented in this tome:
Before the War we were a semi-nomadic people, living in our respective clans with an ever-shifting network of alliances and enmities. Although one people in spirit, our clans fought over tradition, outlook and custom.
And then The Shadow came...
Sadly the truth is a lot gayer:
The Shadow attacked without warning several months ago, overwhelming the border clans with superior numbers and strength. Then the unthinkable happened. The men, our primary soldiers, began to succumb to The Shadow's power.
It twisted them into someone - something - else.
It's like
Lord of the Rings if Sauron had control over toxic masculinity instead of the rings.
For reasons unknown, The Shadow is able to more easily influence the minds of men, and has turned a great deal of the clan's soldiers against itself.
The
actual reason is the writers' misandry, of course.
With most of its fighting force crippled or worse, the clans have joined together and begun enlisting new warriors to defend their homes. Women and non-binary femme people who seem better able to resist The Shadow's hold have been recruited, trained, promoted, and formed into a new order: The Watch.
It's like Gretchen Felker-Martin hit novel
Manhunt, except this wasn't written by a troon with a rape fetish, so we're missing out on literal rape zombies and TERF nazis.
Naturally you get some lame PbtA playbooks, and your choice of gender is basically like your choice of race in saner fantasy RPGs. These are the only valid choices:
- Cis Woman (as long as you're not a TERF, I guess)
- Trans Woman (aka troons)
- Non-Binary (aka special snowflakes)
- (Gender)Fluid (aka attention whores that are just a few steps away from inventing headmates)
- Genderqueer (which is totally different from non-binary, but I don't have enough soy thetans to comprehend the subtle differences)
The lack of cis men is obvious since they all turn into Supreme Gentleman Nazgûl or something if they get to close to the frontlines, but note the absence of
trans men. Apparently being a dyke or tomboy on suicide watch can cause you to succumb to toxic masculinity just as easily as real men, but having those real men put on a wig protects them? Odd.
I was also surprised to note that the co-creator of this is
Ash Kreider, the creator of a game I've previously sperged about:
Our Traveling Home (aka "Legally-distinct
Howl's Moving Castle, except it's more trans and queer because the book mentions 'trans' and 'queer' a lot for some reason").
I got a bit curious and decided to peak into her rabbit hole for a bit. I wish I didn't:
She's a woman, except she calls herself "transgender non-binary". Either she got brainwashed because she's an ugly dyke, or she just wanted to be more special without actually having to change her looks (because she's an ugly dyke).
Apparently she is so woke that not even the SJW darling Paizo can satisfy her arbitrary criteria. Before she abandoned her blog she did some
strange rants about
the art in Pathfinder, including
dozens of gender representation charts which basically all boil down to "Pathfinder is sexist bullshit because the art shows cleave and women with
bare shoulders"
Autism attracts more autism. Sooner or later, an internet nobody will attract the exact kind of fans - and detractors - he deserves.
-Yours Truly
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