Basements & Beards- Analogue Gaming Thread

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Aren't these the same clowns behind Thirsty Scissoring Paper Cutters, aka the grifters who pretty much admitted they don't make money with sales, but by fleecing troons on KickScammer?

The one and only ones.
They used to be quite well-regarded back when they still cared about their Fate RPG (which you might call a fork of Fudge, but that game has always been more of a toolkit). Then they just went weird.

This also reminds me of tackling their magical girl RPG which isn't actually about magical girls. That uses pretty much the exact same system as the Tomb Raider one. Including that bit where getting triggered too much causes you to have a Spoony-tier meltdown until the other players emotionally validate you in the correct way. Oh joy.

(Fun fact: They also worked on an Anti-Colonization Toolkit for Fate, which has sadly been quietly cancelled.)

I also forgot they existed.

Can't blame you.

[Old Black Man]

DHI could make a better tabletop game. Quick, someone role call!

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Internet Nobody: The Autism

You are an Internet Nobody, fighting The Algorithm and your Dunning-Kruger to delay your inevitable descent into complete irrelevancy.

[Old Black Man]

Details man! I need to hear more!

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Well, like any good World of Dorkness game, you need a few ingredients:

Power Stat: This determines your overall power level. Here it's Views, and you have absolutely no control over its growth or decline.
Magic Points: What you spend to use your amazing powers. I'd say the most appropriate would be Effort, and it will automatically reduce over time.
Splat A: What kind of content you're producing. Examples include Lightbringer (comic reviews), Walker (movie reviews), Irater (game reviews) and Channer (webcomic artist).
Splat B: How/Where you're producing your content. Options include Tuber (you're uploading on a big site), Channeler (you're using some small, exclusive site) or Quickviller (you're just doing your thing).

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

The W's keep on coming. Could the pendulum already be swinging back?

Tryhard Star Wars ripoff gets delisted for being too autistic

Ever heard of Rebel Scum (spergout for the Kickstarter here)? It's yet another SJW-infested Star Wars ripoff RPG. It's also one of those "Bash the Fash"-type games that will keep reminding you that "You get to punch nazis in the face!"

Roll20, the owners of DriveThruRPG, have decided to delist the game from that storefront due to "overt political agendas or views"

Gerber said the majority of the book passed their Product Standards Guidelines except for one section which contained “overt political agendas or views.” It would need to be removed before Rebel Scum could be reinstated. Attached was a file named “political.png”.

Pass, or don't pass. There is no "Oh, the majority of the book is okay!"

The infringing section of the Polymorph-powered game minces no words about its moral and ethical position. The author’s foreword asks if players want to “punch a spacenazi right in their stupid, jackbooting, spacenazi face.” It clearly states that Rebel Scum is not for people who believe in white power, vaccine deniers, bigots of all stripes, and cryptofascists lurking in various fandoms — especially Star Wars.

That's fine and all, but why is this in the fucking RPG?
And as I keep reminding you guys: There is nothing special about advertizing the amount of nazi-punching in your RPG. Every game can do that.

On the next page, under the header of safety rules and that initial warning, it makes doubly sure players don’t miss the hammer-blunt metaphor: “While intended to be hopeful and fun, it is shining a mirror back at the post-capitalist, post-truth, post-pandemic political idiocracy that we are currently living through… I have called the REPUBLIK the REPUBLIK so that we can say “I punched that Republikan in the face”. This is deliberate. I have called the GAME MASTER (the GM) the GOVERNMENT™ and the players the NEXT REBELLION™ because there is nothing scarier or more real than the corporatization of our lives, our philosophy, our entertainment, and even our dreams.”

a) I'm pretty sure that bolded part is what got you delisted. I hope it was worth it.
b) JFC man. Get help.

I mostly noticed this because there's a tiny "protest" of sorts going on where other tiny publishers are delisting themselves from DriveThruRPG until Roll20 gives in to their demands.
Bitch the profits you generate for Roll20 aren't even a rounding error for them. Unless enough heavy hitters like Chaosium or Free League Publishing join in on the protest this will accomplish fuckall.

[Old Black Man]

When you’re such a pussy that your revolution has to be in tabletop form. It’s like being Spoony.

[Complicity]

>Creative differences == we hate each others guts (someone in our polycule has comitted wrongthink, or a very minor minor-aggression at the gaming table)

If the creative differences were among the troons and the licensor, i can only assume that whoever owns the rights for Tomb Raider looked at the pitch and said "lol fuck off retards".

[ebin namefag]

When you’re such a pussy that your revolution has to be in tabletop form. It’s like being Spoony.

The revolution will not be televized, or read.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

When you’re such a pussy that your revolution has to be in tabletop form. It’s like being Spoony.

Leftoids have an odd tendency to use narrative RPGs as an excuse to sperg about their brand of ethical terrorism.
(The who made this also released a more generic free RPG called Bombs & Balaclavas, though I can't find a link for that atm. I do have it, though.)