i’ve heard bout lamentations of the flame princess in so many videos, but all i actually know about it is it’s dnd but totally dark and violent and your players are gonna die so hard
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It’s such a short distance between cool OSR and rotten filth OSR
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lol i thought i was done hearing about that trash. but that article is 5 years old at least
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imagine dungeons and dragons but on THE INTELLECTUAL DARK WEB
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Lamentations of the Flame Princess is like if somebody looked at Dungeon Crawl Classics and said the two things I want to fix are making the thief class more fun and making everything else just a bit more fashy.
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this guy did a good job hiding his fascism for a few years but he recently got in hot water for letting a blatantly racist publisher advertise on his channel and now the mask has fallen off and he’s leaning into it
Unsurprising that he interviewed Mike Mearls a few months after that
2014 will never end
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To the extent that “dndtube” is a thing anyone should care about (it isn’t), you can immediately tell the awful ones from the at least boringly fine ones by seeing if they’ve interviewed Mearls in the last couple months. He’s been making the rounds lately, maybe his car needed a new timing belt or something
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Who is Mike Mearls?
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and why does everyone hate him?
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lead designer of 5e, who pointedly hired two of the worst guys in the osr space as consultants for 5e. When a lot of people objected, he said that he would listen to complaints by email. Less than a week later it comes out that he passed along all of the email complaints to the terrible guy who had a well-earned reputation for targeted harassment, doxxing, etc. (and eventually much worse stuff but mearls wasn’t aware of that at the time)
I’m leaving names out of it because those guys are notorious about self-googling and threatening people who say negative things about them
Anyway, after one of the chuds finally got cancelled for real, mearls went quiet and disappeared out of the public side of the hobby for a few years. but now he’s crawling back to do interviews where he insinuates that the problem with the new edition of dnd is that its too woke
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it’s funny to describe the cultural landscape of roleplaying games to people who have a new interest in d&d due to podcasts. people don’t seem to willing to believe that it’s the mediocre reactionary choice that it’s impossible to totally wash the colonialist stink off of, best run as an ultraviolent farce. maybe it’s my rhetoric that’s at fault here
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I’m trying to understand your rhetoric as non hostile and it’s not easy.
I’ve always wanted to get into D&D I just never had the avenues available until recently. I know two Youtube channels that have interviewed Mike Mearls recently one of which I’ve always suspected as secretly shitty but the other I have pretty high regards to, and he is actively in circles I also hold in high regards. I’m trying really hard to take this hobby in a way where I’m avoiding bullshit, so… having plain language around “who’s a bad person and why” would be really helpful.
@Tulpa - I appreciate the response. I have been trying to listen to the interviews at least on Dungeon Craft… and that’s not really what I’m getting. I’ll listen to it again. I kinda wish they were in text format vs. video, but yeah. Thanks
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well d&d is intertwined with my identity as much as america, christianity, and computers are and i have roughly the same attitude about all of them. i’m not above any of it, we just live in a world of shit and any improvement has to start with acknowledging that
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I was mostly knocking his questing beast interview where he dogwhistled a lot about the orc art, the favored complaint of the chuds who dislike modern dnd for the wrong (ie reactionary) reasons
He did raise one good point in the QB interview, in that he admitted that he made 5e unnecessarily difficult to GM. Actually made me hopeful that he’d show growth in the rest of the interview but no he’s the same guy as always.
I’m sure the dungeon craft interview was fine
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You can remove a lot of the colonialist stink from dungeons and dragons if you start by saying “no rangers allowed”
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fair. understand me as a type of grognard
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??? I’m so far behind on understanding
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it’s a very good actual play podcast put on by members of this very forum
someone else could explain the title better but generally speaking rangers are a weird, extra-fiddly character class
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Yeah I was just being cute about my own dnd campaign
And rangers feel emblematic of the problematic end of D&D: namely how they are built around the concept of a favored enemy
needless to say there’s something gross about a class whose main feature is being so racist they are better at killing the races they hate the most
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That’s one of the ones that crept up on me recently and yeah it felt like a clock was ticking til he outted himself with the orc talk.
I’ve been a big fan of making my players feel bad about killing monsters for decades!
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