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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Oct 22, 2020 21:30:32 GMT -5
Welcome to our new member gangrene93 . Is there a story behind that name? Hi, yes there is: Dr Gangreen from Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. It's gangrene because I'm French. It was also the name of my first Cyberpunk netrunner character. Ya gotta love this!! Really old school!
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Post by mao on Oct 24, 2020 8:00:06 GMT -5
Welcome to our new member gangrene93 . Is there a story behind that name? Hi, yes there is: Dr Gangreen from Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. It's gangrene because I'm French. It was also the name of my first Cyberpunk netrunner character. Love me some B movies! Best thing about that movie is the theme song.
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Post by Admin Pete on Nov 20, 2020 14:24:21 GMT -5
Welcome to our new member @robblock2! Come on in and sit a spell. Welcome and glad to have you aboard!
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Post by Admin Pete on Nov 20, 2020 14:26:40 GMT -5
Welcome to our new member @phyxia! Great to have you here, come on in! Welcome aboard!
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Post by Admin Pete on Nov 20, 2020 14:27:48 GMT -5
Welcome to our new member @doctorrob! Come on in and take a look around, if something grabs you, let us know! Welcome and Hello!
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Post by Admin Pete on Nov 20, 2020 14:28:37 GMT -5
Welcome to our new member gangrene93. Is there a story behind that name? Welcome classic sci-fi fan!
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Post by boarspear on Nov 29, 2020 11:31:09 GMT -5
Hi folks, I have been lurking for a while, so finally bit the bullet and joined. I am hear to learn, but may throw my two cents in from time to time.
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Post by Admin Pete on Nov 29, 2020 11:45:10 GMT -5
Hi folks, I have been lurking for a while, so finally bit the bullet and joined. I am hear to learn, but may throw my two cents in from time to time. Welcome to the Ruins boarspear! Come on in and make yourself at home.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Nov 29, 2020 14:44:12 GMT -5
Hi folks, I have been lurking for a while, so finally bit the bullet and joined. I am here to learn, but may throw my two cents in from time to time. Hail and Well Met! Come on in and join the fray boarspear!
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Post by True Black Raven on Nov 30, 2020 1:33:28 GMT -5
Welcome to the multitude of new members since I last checked in. Let's get some conversation going again.
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Post by Traveroark on Dec 1, 2020 16:10:57 GMT -5
Welcome to our new members and to our new Admin (The Admin is dead, long live the Admin), sorry El Borak.
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Post by mao on Dec 2, 2020 8:31:29 GMT -5
Hi folks, I have been lurking for a while, so finally bit the bullet and joined. I am here to learn, but may throw my two cents in from time to time. Hail and Well Met! Come on in and join the fray boarspear ! Welcome boarspear ! Tell me a story
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Post by Shroompunk Warlord on Jan 2, 2021 7:03:45 GMT -5
Hey. I'm a former member of this board returning (with permission) under a new account-- I'm not trying to hide the former identity, and nobody who paid attention to the old account should have any problem figuring out it's me. This pertains to some uncomfortable circumstances in my offline life, and that's about as much as I'd like to say about it in public. If you know who I am, or figure it out, please don't say anything that connects this account to that one.
Since I've been gone for awhile, I'm an author and a game designer living in Wyoming. I got started in D&D, almost thirty years ago now, with 1st Ed AD&D and progressed to 2nd Ed (w/Player's Option) and then 3.0, 3.5, and then I took a break from D&D entirely in favor of other games. I got into Spelljammer during this period, and got back into Player's Option and Classic D&D (starting with the Rules Cyclopedia and then Old School Essentials). My dream D&D would be taking the Player's Option rules and breaking them down and rebuilding them in BECMI and incorporating Dragon Fist.
My current project, called Shroompunk is trying to wrap a system like that around a setting like a cross between Masters of the Universe and Super Mario Bros, except like the HBO Original versions.
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Post by Admin Pete on Jan 2, 2021 16:57:12 GMT -5
Shroompunk Warlord welcome aboard and happy to see you are posting! FYI I have locked the other account, the only one who will give away the connection will be yourself. You are leaving a lot of bread crumbs. Have fun posting.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jan 2, 2021 17:03:09 GMT -5
Come on in and make yourself at home, we welcome new members Shroompunk Warlord, join the conversation. I am particularly interested in hearing more of your experience with Classic D&D (starting with the Rules Cyclopedia and then Old School Essentials) and also BECMI.
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Post by boarspear on Jan 2, 2021 18:50:45 GMT -5
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Post by Mighty Darci on Jan 2, 2021 19:43:26 GMT -5
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Post by El Borak on Jan 2, 2021 20:27:05 GMT -5
Welcome new members! Put your feet up and spin us a yarn.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jan 3, 2021 22:32:25 GMT -5
Welcome to our new member Fantasy King!! Come on in, put your feet up, grab a cold one and join the fun.
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Post by Fantasy King on Jan 3, 2021 22:48:35 GMT -5
Thanks! TPD, I have been lurking for a long time and decided to show my support by joining, albeit not under the same name I use elsewhere. I love this forum, but not enough to get banned everywhere else for joining. I understand that you folks appreciate the predicament in which the jealous gatekeeper places all the regular members of the hobby. Believe me, if I could do something about the little weasel, I would.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jan 3, 2021 23:24:39 GMT -5
Fantasy King , not a problem, we understand people have to navigate through perilous waters to hang out here. When people can be banned for joining this forum, it just points out how bad the cancel culture PC police are. IMO old school D&D will never be PC. This forum will continue to stand as the only Old School D&D forum where cancel culture holds no sway and the PC police are not welcome. "perilous waters" see what I did there?
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Post by Shroompunk Warlord on Jan 4, 2021 2:42:03 GMT -5
I wish we could retire the Stalinist term "political correctness". Replace the term "political correctness" with "basic human decency" and you can tell that the people who hate PC are mostly telling the truth about their intent to promote bigotry, and that people who love PC are mostly lying about their intent to promote tolerance. No offense intended to present company-- this is a criticism of culture warriors, especially people turning D&D into a battleground for the War on Culture, not people trying to use RPGs honestly to entertain old friends and make new friends.
D&D has got an awful lot of archaic, fundamentally injust ideological assumptions baked into its worldbuilding and even its mechanics. New School D&D has removed... a very small portion of those, in reality. This makes D&D and especially some corners of Old School D&D problematic; problematic is not the same thing as "racist" or "bad", it only means that an otherwise praiseworthy cultural artifact contains some of the authors' (usually unconscious) biases and people... need to think about it a little.
That's all. People need to think about D&D a little. As people who already think about D&D a lot, this isn't a big ask.
You can enjoy D&D the way it is, without changing it. Just think about it. A little. And if you think about D&D a little and then it makes you uncomfortable... that's when you change it, if you want. You change it, a little, to make it better for you and your friends. Like we've all been doing for the last 40+ years.
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Post by Shroompunk Warlord on Jan 4, 2021 2:52:48 GMT -5
And I'm glad-- I am grateful-- that this is a place where we can say both "D&D is built on some ugly ideas" and "D&D is my favorite game" and not be ostracized for it.
Because I don't want to use D&D to promote my social justice ideology; I want to use my social justice ideology to make bigger, better D&D.
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Post by Admin Pete on Jan 5, 2021 3:03:26 GMT -5
I wish we could retire the Stalinist term "political correctness". Replace the term "political correctness" with "basic human decency" and you can tell that the people who hate PC are mostly telling the truth about their intent to promote bigotry, and that people who love PC are mostly lying about their intent to promote tolerance. No offense intended to present company-- this is a criticism of culture warriors, especially people turning D&D into a battleground for the War on Culture, not people trying to use RPGs honestly to entertain old friends and make new friends. D&D has got an awful lot of archaic, fundamentally injust ideological assumptions baked into its worldbuilding and even its mechanics. New School D&D has removed... a very small portion of those, in reality. This makes D&D and especially some corners of Old School D&D problematic; problematic is not the same thing as "racist" or "bad", it only means that an otherwise praiseworthy cultural artifact contains some of the authors' (usually unconscious) biases and people... need to think about it a little. That's all. People need to think about D&D a little. As people who already think about D&D a lot, this isn't a big ask. You can enjoy D&D the way it is, without changing it. Just think about it. A little. And if you think about D&D a little and then it makes you uncomfortable... that's when you change it, if you want. You change it, a little, to make it better for you and your friends. Like we've all been doing for the last 40+ years. Many around here believe that "basic human decency" has nothing to do with what is called "political correctness;" in fact, many of us believe that what we call "political correctness" is the complete opposite of "basic human decency." Many of us are of an age that when we look at OD&D we see the world of our childhoods and that is a comfortable place to be. We are playing a game with friends and are not concerned with any of these things, we just want to have fun. We believe that everyone should be able to play D&D anyway they want at their table without any type of criticism or censorship. Personally I do not know anyone who hates PC who wants to promote bigotry, most of them are the least bigoted people you will meet. Most of the people I know who pride themselves on being tolerant are intolerant of anyone who believes differently than they do. While this forum does frown heavily on profanity and sexual content (yeah we will censor that), since we strive to be family friendly; we are on the whole in favor of free speech and freedom of thought.
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Post by Admin Pete on Jan 5, 2021 3:13:52 GMT -5
And I'm glad-- I am grateful-- that this is a place where we can say both "D&D is built on some ugly ideas" and "D&D is my favorite game" and not be ostracized for it. Because I don't want to use D&D to promote my social justice ideology; I want to use my social justice ideology to make bigger, better D&D. We are in favor of you building a D&D world that you enjoy. So you do you when it comes to your game world and your table. But if someone posts about their game and their world, we would frown on posts in those threads that are negative about content in this regard. If someone posts about their game world and table and the content offends you, then don't read it, we ask the same of anyone who would read your content and it offended them, they should ignore it too. When anyone posts about their game world and their table, comments should be to encourage or to help, but not to discuss disagreement with any beliefs that are on display. For instance, many games have slavery. On one hand that is medieval accurate throughout the entire world at that time period and on the other hand it creates an adventure hook and role-playing opportunity for the players. Every game I have played in over the last 30 years the players were distinctly anti-slavery. Prior to that not necessarily. I do not worry about an individual table, these things are all gradually changing.
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Post by boarspear on Jan 5, 2021 3:23:32 GMT -5
D&D has got an awful lot of archaic, fundamentally injust ideological assumptions baked into its worldbuilding and even its mechanics. Please pm me, I am curious about what you think these things are. Probably not a good open forum topic, but I am interested in your thoughts.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jan 5, 2021 3:30:38 GMT -5
New School D&D has removed... Just so you know around here Old School and New School are styles of play, New School refers to a play style that is scripted and railroaded with little place for player initiative. Old School must have freedom of player choice on what the players choose to do, where they choose to go and all directions that can be chosen, MUST lead to different encounters and situations. If the referee moves an encounter so that no matter what the players do, the exact same encounter will always take place, then you have a railroad.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jan 5, 2021 3:40:14 GMT -5
And I'm glad-- I am grateful-- that this is a place where we can say both "D&D is built on some ugly ideas" and "D&D is my favorite game" and not be ostracized for it. Because I don't want to use D&D to promote my social justice ideology; I want to use my social justice ideology to make bigger, better D&D. I also built this place so that those who do not think " D&D is built on some ugly ideas" had a place where they would not be ostracized for it either. IMO both views are acceptable here and I believe that peaceful co-existence for both views is possible, because we are here to promote gaming, not ideologies.
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Post by mao on Jan 5, 2021 8:42:29 GMT -5
D&D has got an awful lot of archaic, fundamentally injust ideological assumptions baked into its worldbuilding and even its mechanics. Please pm me, I am curious about what you think these things are. Probably not a good open forum topic, but I am interested in your thoughts. I Think it would make a great topic.
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Post by mao on Jan 5, 2021 8:43:46 GMT -5
New School D&D has removed... Just so you know around here Old School and New School are styles of play, New School refers to a play style that is scripted and railroaded with little place for player initiative. Old School must have freedom of player choice on what the players choose to do, where they choose to go and all directions that can be chosen, MUST lead to different encounters and situations. If the referee moves an encounter so that no matter what the players do, the exact same encounter will always take place, then you have a railroad. I am the Grand King of railroading, love it!
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