For me, I got the impression Paizo was actually woke, and WOTC was just performative "Hello fellow children Queers and Negros" for money. Like Paizo wanted to EXPAND their market to also get the gays, and WOTC just wanted to target wokes because the market analysis department figured they could probably get more sales from faggots to replace any white cishet male paypigs who did actually stop buying their products instead of just grognarding about trannies in the Shire.
So Paizo seemed to have people who were interested in presenting a message of equality in a universal way, instead of "What does the twitterbot say faggots want? Says they like Harry Potter, Glee, and dressing up like Liberace during Carnivale... and recommends Gay Tranny Magic Prom? Alright, that's the new book. Make it happen."
Which is why Paizo often made me roll my eyes at some of their 'principalled stance' positions but I never put them on the naughty list over their politics; mainly I didn't buy Pathfinder stuff because I wasn't a huge fan of the powergamer design goals or where they took 3.75e in general.
I think I finally figured out what the difference is for me. I wouldn't necessarily call paizo woke, just very liberal. woke for me is when shit gets retarded and hamfisted, and with current year and other retardation going on it overshadows the more measured ones by a mile. it's like playing kender, in itself there's nothing wrong with them, some people can play them properly (and in moderation), but with all the LOLKENDER players flanderizing the fuck out of it no one wants to take the chance anymore. or someone doing
this, which apparently isn't half bad but gets ignored, and suddenly no one can stop jerking themselves off over wheelchair accessible dungeons which are fucking retarded.
for example one of the paizo APs (can't remember which one) has a troon, but you never know since it's not an in your face npc, just someone you meet helping another npc to sell her heirloom sword. if you don't ask her you'd never know, same way you'd never know why that other npc wants to sell her dad's heirloom (to buy the genderswap potion, iirc). that's pretty much it and how it should be done, it make sense in setting, is an understandable character motivation, isn't retarded about it, and can be easily ignored/changed if you so wish.
stuff like explaining the x card is just par the course for current year, might leave a bad aftertaste but also where it ends for most groups.
I think it would be a lot more like Alpha Blue or w/e Venger Satanis's game is called. FATAL always sounded like it was written by the kind of autist who would be mostly against tranny stuff and probably align with a right-libertarian trolling type of deal (It's edgy as fuck), but he also had his own fetishes and shocking content to insert.
don't think he had any alignment, or at least don't remember reading much in that vein in the book. he is a statistician tho, and boy can you feel that (especially since he sources a lot why a table is what is, like pregnancy and other stuff, same for racism etc.); imo memes like anal circumference aren't necessarily a fetish, just some dude asking "well, if that happens what would the math be and what stats would you need?" and then put it in the crunch, without ever asking himself if he should and how it adds to the game. every system is an abstraction to some degree, so the designer has to find a good middle ground between playability and realism, and fatal just leans heavily to one side (for example there's at least one system I've seen which has ballistic calculations for fireballs, but since it's not LOL SEX XD it gets much less meme'd).
also fwiw, the sex stuff etc is all optional as he points out several times (like always it comes down to your group and gm, which is pretty much what he said). and apparently the system looks worse than it is, I remember some anon on cripplechan successfully running a few games with it.
oh, and FATAL is worth reading for the event table alone imo.
It’s not a module. Its an expansion to the first Baldur’s Gate game. From what I hear, there’s a troon shopkeeper who winges about how hard it is being trans. This is in the Forgotten Realms, a setting that is second only to Eberron and Planescape when it comes to how high the magic is, and even had a character (Elminster) live as a woman at one point because the author is a sick fetishist.
the same author did a module tho, first adventure in the wrath of the righteous AP for pathfinder, with pretty much the same issue.
no idea how much of that made it into the videogame, but since I didn't hear much hubbub about it they probably toned it down.
