I love D&D. I've been playing it for 40+ years. I don't need WotC to play D&D (I go back to my older edition books for resources, adventures, monsters, and lore).
Someone tried to crowdfund woke ttrpg game "Sword of Thirty lesbians" in Poland. It failed. Maybe because the called potential customers: persons. Dear persons or in Polish: Drogie osoby. In my language it sound like some Orwellian newspeak.
@@RPGPundit Yes, something like Latinx, but without national context. Those people don't know classic Polish tv series like "The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma" (Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy), when George (Żorż) Ponimirski in one scene is calling "Osoba" main hero, and George has serious mental issues. So, would I crowdfund something, when customer service sounds like caricature from the TV series? If you have spare time, give this TV series a try. Because it is a classic for a good reason. Only six episodes, a total screen time about six hours.
I think it’s interesting to see what they’re up to, even if I don’t intend to buy their stuff. It’s a niche enough hobby that you can follow the market news, discuss game design philosophy, and give tips on running games all on the same channel. Some of us geeks need to learn to relax.
I only care to the degree that it has tertiary effects on something I love, and the general perception of that thing by new people. I've been playing D&D since I was a kid in the 90's starting in 2nd edition, and have played full campaigns in every edition except 4th (we don't talk about that edition) I have been DM'ing since the late 90's and have spent literally over 20 years creating a homebrew world heavily centered around 3.5 rules and the creatures (Mind Flayers, Beholders, Aboleth and so on), gods and lore that the D&D setting brings to the table. I also have the good fortune to have had pretty much the same playgroup for all of that time, being entirely people I've known since high school and/or their wives. All that is to say we've had our occasional newcomers, and it's been clear their perception of what a game should be like is heavily -distorted- shaped by what is seen in popular media about the game. (Critical Roll, 5E and so on) The more WotC screws with the character of the game (Wasted preachy ink about consent, no half races, Devils aren't inherently evil, Orc are basically green humans, etc.), the more it's no longer D&D and is effectively like some off brand parody of D&D anyway, which is a shame, and the more compilated it is for veteran players to pass down the culture of gaming that came down to us (I started with guys who began playing in the 70's and 80's) I know other systems exist, and we've toyed around with them over the years (Fallout rpg, Star Frontiers and others) but there is nothing like D&D. I also have a massive collect of MTG cards I've been collecting since the mid 90's, and that's a whole other ball of nightmare wax what they're doing to that game.
I would like Elon Musk to buy DnD from Hasbro and live stream a one shot campaign where the WOTC executives have to play for their jobs with their own characters. Have the party besieged by Green Dragons that reduce the Board of Executives to slime and raffle off at their equipment in an exciting game of Green Dragon bingo. All for charity of course. 😂
For me, the advantage of 5e is how integrated it is in Roll20. Like it or not, I have to run games online and having the maps and walls and lighting and pre-placed monster/npc tokens already in place is a HUGE time saver. Otherwise, I wouldn’t even think about 5e.
Pretty much this. With the 5e integration, charactermancer and MM...it was a low enough entry point technologically and complexity wise to get us online during covid. For my crew...proper VTT support has allowed us to play once a week since. In person prior to covid it was once a month if we were lucky. So for us...VTT is needed for us to move to a new system. I did run an Achtung Cthulhu short campaign on foundry, but I just prefer R20 more.
I care about WotC the way I care about Apple. I am interested in news about key players in each industry, but I don't buy products from either of them. In both cases I have some schadenfreude when listening to long-suffering customers complaining about the latest sad, expensive, and low-effort releases. I just enjoy my other options and can set aside the latest news largely unaffected. Both companies have the right to be top-heavy, misguided companies with focus-creep causing them to forget their purpose of selling their respective products at a high quality and reasonable profit. Failure is always an option. Keep covering WotC and giving your opinion. It's entertaining to see the farce over there play out.
I haven't cared what WotC does since I bought the pre-4e "Keep on the Shadowfell" in 2008 and realized what direction things were going. I went OSR, never looked back (now playing ACKS).
I can only speak for myself, but the reason I care what WOTC does, apart from lamenting a beloved game going down the drain, is that where D&D goes, the fantasy genre as a whole follows. Prior to 2000 the sneaky-stealy archetype was called the thief in basically every fantasy game/novel/whatever. After 3E it all became Rogue, and has never changed back. It's already happening again now: the new Dragon Age video game has turned the horned Quinari race into 5E tieflings and the whole aesthetic has turned from dark and gritty into 5E's pastel puke. The soul of the genre I love is at stake, and I don't want to roll over just yet. Also, I'm guessing the Dark Albion redux will revert the Church of the Unconquered Sun into Christianity?
That's fine. But do you care about them being called out on their crap? Because that's what the people telling me "why should you even care" are trying to prevent.
I haven't really care about WotC since Dragonlance/Spelljammer disappointing release and everything after the OGL makes me care less. I've been playing BFRPG and Shadowdark.
I have faced a similar question from my old school friends in gaming groups I've had for 40 plus years..... and they wonder why I keep on breast of current developments and Trends in the RPG Hobby and tabletop in general.... because for them they are more than content to keep playing within this bubble that's not going to really change and I totally understand that, I am in fact a loving part of those circles.... however, I play RPGs with younger people, I go to conventions... I'm very interested in the health and the longevity and the state of the hobby because I feel a obligation to it for everything it has given me. My earliest social interactions and things I learned about managing personalities, and how to read a room so to speak and so many other Multistrada layers that pertain to day-to-day life were things I first really learned at the DND table back in the 7th and 8th grade. That little microcosm gave me confidence, and so many other skills that I was able to move forward with in life. I feel I owe the RPG hobby a great deal and so I pay attention to what's happening with it these days. Sometimes I rent as well, and my friends just have to endure it because they think I'm a bit crazy but damn it.... I love this hobby.
So, what is planned differences between the new Lion and Dragon Dark Albion Omnibus and the normal books? I'm guessing you'll be removing the Church of the Unconquered Sun for the Catholic church and replacing the Cleric with the new holy classes from Baptism of Fire? Will some of the Punit Files/Presents be added in?
"Stop buying sh_t that is just a skin suit of what you once loved" and "... has to be called out otherwise... you're just creating this illusion of consensus" These are some great quotes. The second one especially when people whine "Why don't you just keep scrolling/stop buying".
I like your gameplay and mechanics videos a lot more than your rant videos. Even though these get less views, they add a lot of value to the channel. I'm not saying I think it's bad for you to make them, they can attract more people to the channel, but please, don't forget to make the other type of video from time to time. Thanks.
I am excited to hear about your omnibus. Please make it easier to reference the various cities and towns. When my players decide to go to a new city or town, looking it up is a little complex at the moment.
@RPGPundit I am glad you asked. An index would be nice. Often, the city or town names are buried in the text. Bolding their names would help a great deal. Also, the game information on the enlarged hex maps (city size, population, etc.) is often pages away from the text entry in the book. It'd be nice to have that information closer together. It doesn't have to be paired with the map. I actually use the full map on page 10 more than the enlarged maps. I can't find Landcaster on any of the enlarged maps. It would be great to have a region heading followed by a list of major settlements with the information found with the enlarged hex maps. Now, I know I am criticizing the book a bit, but it's still a great book, and I enjoy L&D a lot. Sorry for the rambling. I am AdventureSun on Twitter, if you want to discuss things in more detail. I am also on MeWe.
@@Rajaat99 I appreciate that and will pass on those ideas to the potential publisher. Note that not all of the regions have their own regional hex map. The previous publisher just chose some of the areas to cover.
9:57 Yes, there is a big difference in sitting chatting with a bro that goes into a rant about something, asking why they give a fck. And then searching out people complaining, just to ask them 😂
Personally I do not care what they do. I have not brought a TSR/WoTC product new since 1985 when Oriental Adventures came out. Somehow managed to roleplay in the four decades since without giving them more money.
The point is when a lot of people say "why should you even care what WotC is doing", that's just a dishonest way to say "you should be shamed into not questioning what the Woke people in charge of WotC are doing to D&D".
@@RPGPundit I get that but that ship has sailed. WotC is doing the woke thing now and wont change unless the product fails.Nothing I can do about it other than not buy their stuff. And comment on posts I guess.
Isn't it funny how our language is so impoverished when it comes to easily terming different kinds of disingenuous and ulteriorly motivated speech? Maybe if I was a college professor I would know some ten cent words to label this stuff, but 9 times out of 10 when somebody questions something on the internet, it's entirely bad faith, it's not an expression of what they thought when they read/heard the piece, and it's very clearly just the first rhetorical rock they could find at hand to throw. And we waste billions of hours arguing around it, even though I'm certain the person arguing back almost always knows instantly that they're dealing with a disingenuous comment. Where is the "well life's not fair" level rejoinder to tell people they're clearly just butthurt?
My rejoinder is typically "you claim it doesn't matter, and yet you're here, in my social media, taking the time to pretend no one should care". Spread the word, share the video!
The rant videos do better because "the 'enemy' " is watching as well. They may not like the rant but they watch it - as they should. People have been known to "love to hate...."
I am not even sure I even care anymore about videos ranting about WotC. I came here in the first place for the creative content, not the destructive one. I haven't watched your videos in a while for it is becoming just an endless ranting rampage. Your content about positive creativity is SO MUCH MORE POWERFUL. Anyway, kudo for raising your voice, I REALLY appreciate that also, we need free speech, you are the Pundit afterall (I am just not going to watch that type of content from you anymore. While I understand the need for it, it feels to me repetitive and predictable). Best of luck. Peace.
I run a 2E game every week for my group of five players. We are from the time frames of several editions and vary in age from mid twenties to mid fifties. We gave 5E a chance, about two years of gameplay and went back to 2E. What's my point? That means that myself and those five players won't buy WOTC products anymore, and our families won't buy it as gifts for any of us, because of WOTC's numerous failures. In the corporate scheme, that's not a lot of lost money but how many tables are the same as ours? I obviously have no idea but it would only take a few tables with the same mindset to have a corporate level impact. Just my opinion.
Well it does have an impact in the sense that those groups are not buying any current D&D stuff, but they don't care because you're not the audience they want. Its a stupid position, but it's their position.
Please continue to bring us news on WotC and their latest rubbish. We will continue to deride and mock them until, hopefully, one day Hasbro will shut it down or sell it off to better caretakers of their IP.
@@RPGPundit That was my before I watched it snarky comment. My after watching it comment is thus: Not Another penny to HASBRO/WOTC from me. But I do love me a rant video of the Final boss in Internet Shit-Lords Shitting a big pile of Shit on that Shitty piece of Shit company called Woke-tards Of The Shitty Coast. Keep Shitting on WOTC and I will indeed watch those Rant vids. (Because, If I have not been clear enough, HASBRO is a bunch of full of shit, SHIT HEADS, so Screw those assholes)
@@RPGPundit That was my Pre-Watch Snarky Comment. For Me, Not Another penny to HASBRO/WOTC, not even for RISK, so I can personally be apathetic. To your point, and to my Credo, "It is not enough to not be woke. We must be ANTI Woke!" You will always get a watch from me when THE Final Boss in Internet Shit Lords SHITS all over Wizards. I will watch and laugh along. I skip all the 5E vids on channels I used to watch (for Example Professor DM) and just watch his OSR stuff. To the point of your video, by all means, keep Shitting on WOTC, Lord. (see what I did there, Shit (ing) Lord) Perhaps there are people in your audience that still pony up to the counter to hand over money to be abused and scorned. I am not one of them. I pity the fools..... And have contempt for them. Meanwhile, I will incredulously shake my head and laugh along as you lampoon WOTC and try to force those resistant eyes open.
"Just let people enjoy things" creates the opportunity for mediocrity to thrive in our culture. Criticism elevates people and helps them develop their own critical faculties. I'd rather have a culture that encourages high standards and discernment over one that essentially becomes vapid libertinism.
You should only care if you care. It's an RPG for goodness sake whole point is to use YOUR impagination and make up the story and the rules as you go. Otherwise go buy a board game.
You shouldn't assess the value of conversation or discourse by its youtube popularity, youtube has a material interest in promoting competitive material because it encourages more video creation and more video watching which is their entire business. At some point every creator has to make a decision between making meaningful content and selling out.
I think that everything I do on this channel is meaningful content. I do wish that my content on DMing advice or Reviews got as many views as my anti-woke content. But you're right, part of that could be the algorithm.
@@RPGPundit I care about opposing the ideology, but not about the company. WotC has permanently lost my business, and (most of) my attention. My part of the fight is in helping to starve the beast by spending my money on more worthy things.
Misnomer, or you didn't answer the question. For my own part, I think it's fair to say that D&D for now still remains the industry leader, regardless of the quality and development of the product. And given that WOTC are the developers, they are important by association. When ideas in the form of new games are put forward, it behooves an enthusiast to check it out and allow their own thought upon the RPG genre & industry to be challenged. You're never forced to agree with what's going on, so there's no harm in seeking to comprehend it and subsequently form your own opinion on the matter. No matter what, you walk away from news with a greater understanding of where you stand, which you'll carry with you into your own future interaction with the hobby. People who say "it doesn't matter what they do" are kidding themselves. They're not going away, and they won't stop exerting a big influence---at least not anytime soon. Your attention may be at a premium, and may even be "better spent elsewhere", but spitefully pretending that WOTC and their D&D are totally irrelevant is not something anyone actually buys into, and as I've hopefully explained, for tacitly good reason. If they become irrelevant, it'll happen organically. If there's something to talk about, there's no use trying to force discussion to not happen. Talk is cheap, after all---critcizing them doesn't make them money, which isn't that all they care about?
I love D&D. I've been playing it for 40+ years. I don't need WotC to play D&D (I go back to my older edition books for resources, adventures, monsters, and lore).
Sure. But do you think that WotC should not be challenged?
Of course they should!
The rant videos are the most entertaining. The how to play videos are very useful. I would like to see more history videos.
Good call. Spread the word, share the video!
Someone tried to crowdfund woke ttrpg game "Sword of Thirty lesbians" in Poland. It failed. Maybe because the called potential customers: persons. Dear persons or in Polish: Drogie osoby. In my language it sound like some Orwellian newspeak.
So a bit like "Latinx"? How typical. Spread the word, share the video!
@@RPGPundit Yes, something like Latinx, but without national context. Those people don't know classic Polish tv series like "The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma" (Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy), when George (Żorż) Ponimirski in one scene is calling "Osoba" main hero, and George has serious mental issues. So, would I crowdfund something, when customer service sounds like caricature from the TV series? If you have spare time, give this TV series a try. Because it is a classic for a good reason. Only six episodes, a total screen time about six hours.
"Drogie Osoby": I think I found the name for my next villain.
I think it’s interesting to see what they’re up to, even if I don’t intend to buy their stuff. It’s a niche enough hobby that you can follow the market news, discuss game design philosophy, and give tips on running games all on the same channel.
Some of us geeks need to learn to relax.
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I only care to the degree that it has tertiary effects on something I love, and the general perception of that thing by new people.
I've been playing D&D since I was a kid in the 90's starting in 2nd edition, and have played full campaigns in every edition except 4th (we don't talk about that edition) I have been DM'ing since the late 90's and have spent literally over 20 years creating a homebrew world heavily centered around 3.5 rules and the creatures (Mind Flayers, Beholders, Aboleth and so on), gods and lore that the D&D setting brings to the table.
I also have the good fortune to have had pretty much the same playgroup for all of that time, being entirely people I've known since high school and/or their wives. All that is to say we've had our occasional newcomers, and it's been clear their perception of what a game should be like is heavily -distorted- shaped by what is seen in popular media about the game. (Critical Roll, 5E and so on)
The more WotC screws with the character of the game (Wasted preachy ink about consent, no half races, Devils aren't inherently evil, Orc are basically green humans, etc.), the more it's no longer D&D and is effectively like some off brand parody of D&D anyway, which is a shame, and the more compilated it is for veteran players to pass down the culture of gaming that came down to us (I started with guys who began playing in the 70's and 80's)
I know other systems exist, and we've toyed around with them over the years (Fallout rpg, Star Frontiers and others) but there is nothing like D&D.
I also have a massive collect of MTG cards I've been collecting since the mid 90's, and that's a whole other ball of nightmare wax what they're doing to that game.
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As long as Meatball has Eggs
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1:10 It's Tree-Fitty
I ain't giving you no tree fiddy!
@@RPGPundit well . . .
I would like Elon Musk to buy DnD from Hasbro and live stream a one shot campaign where the WOTC executives have to play for their jobs with their own characters. Have the party besieged by Green Dragons that reduce the Board of Executives to slime and raffle off at their equipment in an exciting game of Green Dragon bingo. All for charity of course. 😂
One can dream, but it's unlikely. Spread the word, share the video!
Not to sound like a fanboy but I mainly follow what you do, product wise, and I only know about what’s happening with wotc through you and DoubleD.
Well, I appreciate that. Spread the word, share the video!
For me, the advantage of 5e is how integrated it is in Roll20. Like it or not, I have to run games online and having the maps and walls and lighting and pre-placed monster/npc tokens already in place is a HUGE time saver. Otherwise, I wouldn’t even think about 5e.
Pretty much this. With the 5e integration, charactermancer and MM...it was a low enough entry point technologically and complexity wise to get us online during covid. For my crew...proper VTT support has allowed us to play once a week since. In person prior to covid it was once a month if we were lucky.
So for us...VTT is needed for us to move to a new system. I did run an Achtung Cthulhu short campaign on foundry, but I just prefer R20 more.
Spread the word, share the video!
I care about WotC the way I care about Apple. I am interested in news about key players in each industry, but I don't buy products from either of them. In both cases I have some schadenfreude when listening to long-suffering customers complaining about the latest sad, expensive, and low-effort releases. I just enjoy my other options and can set aside the latest news largely unaffected.
Both companies have the right to be top-heavy, misguided companies with focus-creep causing them to forget their purpose of selling their respective products at a high quality and reasonable profit. Failure is always an option.
Keep covering WotC and giving your opinion. It's entertaining to see the farce over there play out.
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And does WOTC themselves care?
Not really, they have enough D&DBeyond cultist customers to last them for couple quarters.
Well, they care sometimes. Sometimes enough to shut down TH-cam Channels. Sometimes enough to send Pinkertons.
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And sometimes to make a movie that’s actually hella good so is false advertising by its nature.
No one heard of that little company WotC till you mentioned it. Now I'll have to look it up.
Sheesh.
Well, that's the argument they're somehow trying to make.
I hate your rant videos, but I can’t stop clicking on them.
I appreciate that. Just go with the flow, man...
Bof and l&d = ttrpg pure goodness. Can’t wait for these products.
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Rant away, Pundit. Rant away.
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I'm here for the Rants!!!
Well good. Spread the word, share the video!
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I like both reviews and rants but specially how to DM!
I haven't cared what WotC does since I bought the pre-4e "Keep on the Shadowfell" in 2008 and realized what direction things were going. I went OSR, never looked back (now playing ACKS).
Well, I obviously support your turn to the OSR. Spread the word, share the video!
"Why do you like ranting about Wizards (WOTC)"? Cause it's FUN.
And because it pisses off the very people who complain about me doing it.
@@RPGPundit 100% true, lol
So stoked for the omnibus, great decision
Thanks. I'll repeat, it'll still be a while, it's just at the early stages still.
I can only speak for myself, but the reason I care what WOTC does, apart from lamenting a beloved game going down the drain, is that where D&D goes, the fantasy genre as a whole follows. Prior to 2000 the sneaky-stealy archetype was called the thief in basically every fantasy game/novel/whatever. After 3E it all became Rogue, and has never changed back. It's already happening again now: the new Dragon Age video game has turned the horned Quinari race into 5E tieflings and the whole aesthetic has turned from dark and gritty into 5E's pastel puke. The soul of the genre I love is at stake, and I don't want to roll over just yet.
Also, I'm guessing the Dark Albion redux will revert the Church of the Unconquered Sun into Christianity?
To answer your last question, that's highly likely. Spread the word, share the video!
@@RPGPunditI’m going to have to wait for the DA redux then - that religion always annoyed me.
Now if we can just get a change to the frogs…
Keep doing what you do , and please keep banging out these great game products !
Thanks, I will definitely intend to. Spread the word, share the video!
Their products suck. I couldn’t care less what they do because I’m not buying anything from them.
That's fine. But do you care about them being called out on their crap? Because that's what the people telling me "why should you even care" are trying to prevent.
I haven't really care about WotC since Dragonlance/Spelljammer disappointing release and everything after the OGL makes me care less. I've been playing BFRPG and Shadowdark.
Check out Baptism of Fire!
We REALLY DO like your other role playing content better... But we're totally addicted to the drama
LOL. That's an honest assessment. Spread the word, share the video!
I have faced a similar question from my old school friends in gaming groups I've had for 40 plus years..... and they wonder why I keep on breast of current developments and Trends in the RPG Hobby and tabletop in general.... because for them they are more than content to keep playing within this bubble that's not going to really change and I totally understand that, I am in fact a loving part of those circles.... however, I play RPGs with younger people, I go to conventions... I'm very interested in the health and the longevity and the state of the hobby because I feel a obligation to it for everything it has given me. My earliest social interactions and things I learned about managing personalities, and how to read a room so to speak and so many other Multistrada layers that pertain to day-to-day life were things I first really learned at the DND table back in the 7th and 8th grade. That little microcosm gave me confidence, and so many other skills that I was able to move forward with in life. I feel I owe the RPG hobby a great deal and so I pay attention to what's happening with it these days. Sometimes I rent as well, and my friends just have to endure it because they think I'm a bit crazy but damn it.... I love this hobby.
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So, what is planned differences between the new Lion and Dragon Dark Albion Omnibus and the normal books? I'm guessing you'll be removing the Church of the Unconquered Sun for the Catholic church and replacing the Cleric with the new holy classes from Baptism of Fire? Will some of the Punit Files/Presents be added in?
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Nice to finally get a Rules Cyclopedia for L&D.
Most likely.
Nope, still playing BECMI D&D 😂
Well, that's fine. But you may still like to hear about their screw-ups.
I just bought six Pundit Files for three-fiddy each!
Thank you! I really appreciate that, and the six tree-fiddys.
I care not to buy their products, and I would care to see them fail. And here's why: What they've done and keep doing is malign the original creators and history of the game to prop themselves up, promote mediocrity, hijack nostalgia to draw old fans in and seek to undermine younger people's understanding of what the hobby has always been and can be. It is NOT merely some random RPG publisher who might make something not to our taste. It is THE brand of "the oldest, most popular fantasy yada yada." It's what drew most of us in the first place. And it is true that sometimes you must defend what you love. In this case, it is that Gateway to Adventure. Sure we can make, run and play anything else instead of Wizards' newest skidmark, but that skidmark is passing itself off as the ambassador of the hobby. F.. that.
And here's why RPGPundit should care: If hot garbage is passed off as a tour de force, no one will seek out your works or that of many others. They will simply be enslaved under the Sauron-like grip of One D&D. They might see your books or other people's works in passing, displayed in a video and think, "Eww! That's not an Official Wizards of the Coast ©️ ™️ RPG!"
Rant aside, I do think that success is the best revenge. So make good things. Make BETTER things than they do. We should probably stop giving them free press with "Why Should You Care?" videos. Get clicks and likes by explaining what things YOU have made and why they're awesome, instead of showing pictures of your products while talking about theirs. Is WotC paying you to advertise for them? Nope. That's time that's better spent promoting your own work. The less independent publishers sell, the more market share WotC receives. They know it and it's what sparked that whole OGL debacle a while back.
Don't waffle. Don't say, "I don't caaaare" and sit on the fence. You'll only get holes in your ass and you're certainly not winning over or placating 5.5/6th/Pay-to-play One D&D fans. The majority of those people won't even have you on their radar. But there is hope, as surely as being dissatisfied with 5E kept me interested in the OSR, which led me to a Pundit, a Venger, a Red Room..
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Of course he should!
Criticism is good it not only shows when you're doing a good job it also means they''re invested enough to post about it!
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"Stop buying sh_t that is just a skin suit of what you once loved"
and
"... has to be called out otherwise... you're just creating this illusion of consensus"
These are some great quotes.
The second one especially when people whine "Why don't you just keep scrolling/stop buying".
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Your livestreams are usually after midnight for me.
Thanks for watching regardless!
17:32 that that right there earned you a subscription 😂😂
I cant agree with you more on all of this.
Stop giving money to companies who hate you!
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I like your gameplay and mechanics videos a lot more than your rant videos. Even though these get less views, they add a lot of value to the channel.
I'm not saying I think it's bad for you to make them, they can attract more people to the channel, but please, don't forget to make the other type of video from time to time.
Thanks.
I try to keep it balanced.
I am excited to hear about your omnibus. Please make it easier to reference the various cities and towns. When my players decide to go to a new city or town, looking it up is a little complex at the moment.
How do you think would be easier? I assume that putting it by region so that the DM can look up what's there in the area was the easiest way...
@RPGPundit I am glad you asked. An index would be nice. Often, the city or town names are buried in the text. Bolding their names would help a great deal. Also, the game information on the enlarged hex maps (city size, population, etc.) is often pages away from the text entry in the book. It'd be nice to have that information closer together. It doesn't have to be paired with the map.
I actually use the full map on page 10 more than the enlarged maps. I can't find Landcaster on any of the enlarged maps. It would be great to have a region heading followed by a list of major settlements with the information found with the enlarged hex maps.
Now, I know I am criticizing the book a bit, but it's still a great book, and I enjoy L&D a lot. Sorry for the rambling.
I am AdventureSun on Twitter, if you want to discuss things in more detail. I am also on MeWe.
@@Rajaat99 I appreciate that and will pass on those ideas to the potential publisher. Note that not all of the regions have their own regional hex map. The previous publisher just chose some of the areas to cover.
@RPGPundit Well, that's why I can't find Landcaster then.
Sword & Caravan has a great layout, with the region main heading and the city subheadings.
I'm just an average dude. Voting with my wallet is all the opposition I can give.
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12:08 I would be interested to see where Acheron Games is rated green, yellow, or red.
Well, you can check it out on theRPGsite.com
9:57 Yes, there is a big difference in sitting chatting with a bro that goes into a rant about something, asking why they give a fck. And then searching out people complaining, just to ask them 😂
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Personally I do not care what they do. I have not brought a TSR/WoTC product new since 1985 when Oriental Adventures came out. Somehow managed to roleplay in the four decades since without giving them more money.
The point is when a lot of people say "why should you even care what WotC is doing", that's just a dishonest way to say "you should be shamed into not questioning what the Woke people in charge of WotC are doing to D&D".
@@RPGPundit I get that but that ship has sailed. WotC is doing the woke thing now and wont change unless the product fails.Nothing I can do about it other than not buy their stuff. And comment on posts I guess.
Speaking of reviews, when will you review Mr. Welch's Mystara Player's Handbook? :P
I typically don't do reviews of free products.
Do you mean the Lance of Mitra is going to be Longinus and such religious modifications when you say bringing in line with Sword & Caravan etc.?
Potentially yes.
The world sees what happened. The powers that be can explode pagers with a remote wi fi.
Ill pass on the ear buds bro.
I like hearing what you think about game products.
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101 Sarmations is worth buying for the title alone. 😆
Glad you enjoy it!
Isn't it funny how our language is so impoverished when it comes to easily terming different kinds of disingenuous and ulteriorly motivated speech? Maybe if I was a college professor I would know some ten cent words to label this stuff, but 9 times out of 10 when somebody questions something on the internet, it's entirely bad faith, it's not an expression of what they thought when they read/heard the piece, and it's very clearly just the first rhetorical rock they could find at hand to throw. And we waste billions of hours arguing around it, even though I'm certain the person arguing back almost always knows instantly that they're dealing with a disingenuous comment. Where is the "well life's not fair" level rejoinder to tell people they're clearly just butthurt?
My rejoinder is typically "you claim it doesn't matter, and yet you're here, in my social media, taking the time to pretend no one should care".
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On day DnD will be totally forgotten except that it was the predecessor for the true vanguard of TTRPGs, Lion and Dragon.
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The rant videos do better because "the 'enemy' " is watching as well. They may not like the rant but they watch it - as they should. People have been known to "love to hate...."
That's probably a sound theory. Spread the word, share the video!
Internet loves drama, even minor rants. Do more.
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I haven't cared what has been done with the game since 1994. I have all the materials I've ever needed.
I have no idea what Wotc is up to. I thought they went out of business in 2021. Whatever. Going to give the wife a pearl necklace now.
The short answer is no 😂
The people asking the question are often disingenuous, however, as they actually care enormously about protecting the woke agenda at WotC.
I am not even sure I even care anymore about videos ranting about WotC. I came here in the first place for the creative content, not the destructive one. I haven't watched your videos in a while for it is becoming just an endless ranting rampage. Your content about positive creativity is SO MUCH MORE POWERFUL. Anyway, kudo for raising your voice, I REALLY appreciate that also, we need free speech, you are the Pundit afterall (I am just not going to watch that type of content from you anymore. While I understand the need for it, it feels to me repetitive and predictable). Best of luck. Peace.
Well, I mean, I just did some videos about that, plus started a new interview livestream series. Check out The RPGPundit Encounter ep.1!
@@RPGPundit fantastic! Thank you. :)
You should care. What Wizards does trickles down to everyone else because it's what new players expect.
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I run a 2E game every week for my group of five players. We are from the time frames of several editions and vary in age from mid twenties to mid fifties. We gave 5E a chance, about two years of gameplay and went back to 2E. What's my point? That means that myself and those five players won't buy WOTC products anymore, and our families won't buy it as gifts for any of us, because of WOTC's numerous failures. In the corporate scheme, that's not a lot of lost money but how many tables are the same as ours? I obviously have no idea but it would only take a few tables with the same mindset to have a corporate level impact. Just my opinion.
Well it does have an impact in the sense that those groups are not buying any current D&D stuff, but they don't care because you're not the audience they want. Its a stupid position, but it's their position.
Mobile game company?
Please continue to bring us news on WotC and their latest rubbish. We will continue to deride and mock them until, hopefully, one day Hasbro will shut it down or sell it off to better caretakers of their IP.
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Is the answer Fuck No ?
Except that the people saying that to me are mostly people who are care VERY MUCH about WotC's woke agenda not being opposed.
@@RPGPundit That was my before I watched it snarky comment. My after watching it comment is thus: Not Another penny to HASBRO/WOTC from me. But I do love me a rant video of the Final boss in Internet Shit-Lords Shitting a big pile of Shit on that Shitty piece of Shit company called Woke-tards Of The Shitty Coast. Keep Shitting on WOTC and I will indeed watch those Rant vids. (Because, If I have not been clear enough, HASBRO is a bunch of full of shit, SHIT HEADS, so Screw those assholes)
@@RPGPundit That was my Pre-Watch Snarky Comment. For Me, Not Another penny to HASBRO/WOTC, not even for RISK, so I can personally be apathetic. To your point, and to my Credo, "It is not enough to not be woke. We must be ANTI Woke!" You will always get a watch from me when THE Final Boss in Internet Shit Lords SHITS all over Wizards. I will watch and laugh along. I skip all the 5E vids on channels I used to watch (for Example Professor DM) and just watch his OSR stuff. To the point of your video, by all means, keep Shitting on WOTC, Lord. (see what I did there, Shit (ing) Lord) Perhaps there are people in your audience that still pony up to the counter to hand over money to be abused and scorned. I am not one of them. I pity the fools..... And have contempt for them. Meanwhile, I will incredulously shake my head and laugh along as you lampoon WOTC and try to force those resistant eyes open.
"Just let people enjoy things" creates the opportunity for mediocrity to thrive in our culture. Criticism elevates people and helps them develop their own critical faculties. I'd rather have a culture that encourages high standards and discernment over one that essentially becomes vapid libertinism.
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You should only care if you care. It's an RPG for goodness sake whole point is to use YOUR impagination and make up the story and the rules as you go. Otherwise go buy a board game.
You shouldn't assess the value of conversation or discourse by its youtube popularity, youtube has a material interest in promoting competitive material because it encourages more video creation and more video watching which is their entire business. At some point every creator has to make a decision between making meaningful content and selling out.
I think that everything I do on this channel is meaningful content. I do wish that my content on DMing advice or Reviews got as many views as my anti-woke content. But you're right, part of that could be the algorithm.
This video could have been five seconds long. "No." The unrated video would be a couple of seconds longer.
Most of the people who say that to me on my social media actually DESPERATELY care. They are liars, trying to stop an ideological enemy.
@@RPGPundit I care about opposing the ideology, but not about the company. WotC has permanently lost my business, and (most of) my attention. My part of the fight is in helping to starve the beast by spending my money on more worthy things.
no
And yet here you are.
@@RPGPundit you asked the question; I didnt listen to the video. you probably said nada about WotC anyway
Misnomer, or you didn't answer the question.
For my own part, I think it's fair to say that D&D for now still remains the industry leader, regardless of the quality and development of the product. And given that WOTC are the developers, they are important by association.
When ideas in the form of new games are put forward, it behooves an enthusiast to check it out and allow their own thought upon the RPG genre & industry to be challenged. You're never forced to agree with what's going on, so there's no harm in seeking to comprehend it and subsequently form your own opinion on the matter. No matter what, you walk away from news with a greater understanding of where you stand, which you'll carry with you into your own future interaction with the hobby.
People who say "it doesn't matter what they do" are kidding themselves. They're not going away, and they won't stop exerting a big influence---at least not anytime soon. Your attention may be at a premium, and may even be "better spent elsewhere", but spitefully pretending that WOTC and their D&D are totally irrelevant is not something anyone actually buys into, and as I've hopefully explained, for tacitly good reason.
If they become irrelevant, it'll happen organically. If there's something to talk about, there's no use trying to force discussion to not happen. Talk is cheap, after all---critcizing them doesn't make them money, which isn't that all they care about?