Tabletop Roleplaying Games (D&D, Pathfinder, CoC, ETC.)

Might be late and gay, but didn't see it in search, so here we go:
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DnD publisher Wizards of the Coast has been inviting tabletop RPG influencers to a new, all expenses paid D&D Content Creator Summit, and social media has been abuzz with chat about who is and isn’t going.

Email invites have been sent out to numerous DnD content creators this week about the event, which is going to be held at Wizard of the Coast’s office in Bellevue, Washington on April 3.

The email sent to content creators has been widely shared, for instance by YouTubers Bob the Worldbuilder and Nerd Immersion. According to the invitation, the event will allow community figures to “ask questions, give feedback and connect with members of our Studio and Content teams.”

Attendees will get to chat to creators of the tabletop roleplaying game, and also get to learn about the next D&D rules update, and experience the D&D Virtual Tabletop that’s currently in the works. The email states that influencers will have their travel, food, accommodation, and ‘per diem’ costs covered, and there are “no content requirements”, with Wizards adding that it doesn’t plan to take any footage or photographs of the event.

However, the message also assures that nothing shared will be secret or under any kind of NDA, so there’s obviously an expectation that creators will want to share the information presented to them with their fans.

DnD Twitter is consumed with talk about this Content Creator Summit and what it means for Wizards, with many focusing on who was and who wasn’t invited. For instance, creator DnD Shorts tweeted that after his criticisms of Wizards during the DnD OGL debacle “It is unlikely I’ll ever be “invited in” by the company”, though he adds that he’s “extremely happy Wizards are reaching out to creators.”

Other commentators are less sanguine – for instance, Gizmodo journalist Linda Codega said on Twitter that the guest list shows Wizards “do not want real critique from people who aren’t looking for their approval”.

 
"there are “no content requirements”

yeah, sure, not only did WOTC pre-select the biggest simps, they'll totally talk shit afterwards to never again get invited to another "VIP" wine&dine...

I will readilygrant you there was a ton of "fill in the blank" with NV, tons of "This happens because of shit all the way over there", a time line that had some issues (The Minotaur kingdom being only 300 years ago?) and some of the cooler locales having nothing done with them in official setting. (i.e. Temple of the Yellow Skulls & Fastormel Ruins are only explored in the 4e novels iirc, and I don't think the sword barrows gets addressed ever) and in general some stuff that doesn't make sense if you think about it overmuch.

But its a great sandbox to turn adventurers loose in and lost of places for the GM to insert whatever you want
wasn't complaining about that, far from it. also liked they actually created something new instead of shitting over established settings, but I guess that policy was reversed after they dumped 4e...
 
Might be late and gay, but didn't see it in search, so here we go:

Just a reminder I called it back during the OGL:

I think you're giving the average normie too much credit and the average corporate worm too little. They learned their lesson, and won't repeat the same fuckup.

In two weeks, the average normie will have forgotten all about this.

Its been long enough people have forgotten about their OGL dick-trip, and their "White men can't leave TTRPG fast enough" was successfully defused. So now they can continue with the script.

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The 6e license release will be preceded with buying off reporters and community shills/"""""influencers""""""" to publish prostate-massaging articles & post ball-gargling youtubes about how great this license will be for everyone and how its unfair to allow VTTs to make money off WotC's hard work, and how they are working super hard to make sure no one offends trannies and how all these offensive concepts like "exoticism", "having fun" and "not giving WotC a 25% cut" are the products of wrong-thinking straight white men and need to be removed to allow inclusion and diversity.

So you can starting looking forward to:
Follow this with twitterati "uncovering" a bunch of Cringe Coomer or Stormer 5e content; this "exposure" will allow astroturfed tranny & nigger 'demand' for Wizards to do something about this horrible situation where wrong thinkers are allowed to roam free. Wotc will respond with "Our hands are tied! We did what the community wanted and left the OGL intact! But we've been working super hard and now 6e will ensure Trannies are safe in 6e. Play 6e! The only reason you wouldn't like the NGL is you are a racist transphobe." Anyone who tries to raise concerns about licensing will be shouted down as an Anti-vaxxer & climate denier.
 
This showed up in my recommended tab today because Matt Mercer promoted it:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/watchtabletop/tabletopnews

It kind of sounds like "G4 as a weekly tabletop news show" with all the hilarity you'd expect. What I thought was interesting was that they're funding 10 episodes of....a weekly news show that is instantly dated. Why would you not do a Patreon? Maybe everyone involved is great, please correct me if you know them and they are. The idea that you can't get news anywhere else is funny, though.

https://archive.ph/wip/Aapcu
 
That's beyond retarded. Noteworthy gaming stuff in the form of not-shitty new products being released happens a handful of times in a year, at best. The rest of the flood of lukewarm shit seeping out of Kickstarter and Gofundme is unplayable garbage. Having a weekly or even a monthly show about tabletop products will be 99% these grinning bobbleheads lapping up retarded non-games like Thirsty Sword Lesbians and only very rarely mentioning an actual good Gloomhaven-level product.
 
This showed up in my recommended tab today because Matt Mercer promoted it:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/watchtabletop/tabletopnews

It kind of sounds like "G4 as a weekly tabletop news show" with all the hilarity you'd expect. What I thought was interesting was that they're funding 10 episodes of....a weekly news show that is instantly dated. Why would you not do a Patreon? Maybe everyone involved is great, please correct me if you know them and they are. The idea that you can't get news anywhere else is funny, though.

https://archive.ph/wip/Aapcu
tl;dr: Its expensive to get a studio together. Kickstarting the initial build out with Patreon/Subscription later is a smart move for jumpstarting a show. The idea is also you do a nuMST3k where you film it and then sell it to someone like Netflix.

For example, The Grand Tour was funded but not created by Amazon. They gave the Top Gear guys 26 million dollars and said "one show, please"; anything they didn't spend was profit which is why they shot in a tent.

That's beyond retarded. Noteworthy gaming stuff in the form of not-shitty new products being released happens a handful of times in a year, at best. The rest of the flood of lukewarm shit seeping out of Kickstarter and Gofundme is unplayable garbage. Having a weekly or even a monthly show about tabletop products will be 99% these grinning bobbleheads lapping up retarded non-games like Thirsty Sword Lesbians and only very rarely mentioning an actual good Gloomhaven-level product.
Agreed. Tabletop is also insanely cliquely and incestuous, and that'll only make it worse (thought that's probably the point).
I could see a yearly week long event like "Gen Con Wrap Up".
 
Yeah, a roundup of things every few months would work, but of course you can't make that a "brand"; nobody's making a paycheck off of that, so instead you get a pile of assholes holding their hands out for patreonbux so they can scrape the bottom of every barrel to come up with content to fill the empty air. And of course with a BIPOC spotlight, because the skin color of a writer I will never once meet is terribly significant.
 
because the skin color of a writer I will never once meet is terribly significant.
I mean, it is to me.
We've been told Spics, Niggers, Wogs, Redskins, Nips, Chinks, Slants, and Samoans are so stupid and low-IQ that unless delivered a product that directly and explicitly includes humanblobs that are are their shade of brown (and have stupid haircuts with retard dyejobs) they are unable to relate it. They lack the higher brain functions needed for empathy or imagination, and only white people have them. Because they're saying white people should by the melanin blob products but anything that is 80% nigger is racist oppression because anyone non-white is unable to find anything they can relate or imagine themselves as person in that world.

I mean, I don't think that but that's what all the journalists keep saying so it must be true.

So I don't want to take a chance that what I'm about to buy is from someone with that low of an IQ, not to mention racist, hence I am avoiding buying anything from anyone who doesn't pass the paper bag test.
In b 4 someone posts a picture of the lily white pasty faces of Coyote & Crow's irish creators
 
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It kind of sounds like "G4 as a weekly tabletop news show" with all the hilarity you'd expect.
Something I want to know is why can corpos not let this format go?

They're out of touch boomers, yes, but it's been almost 20 years since the internet blew legacy media out of the water. You'd think they'd go "oh, these internet people are pulling five times the viewers with one percent of the budget, maybe we could learn a thing or two.", but no. Instead, they keep getting soulless shills (who clearly got the job due to diversity and connections) to read an autocue on overly expensive sets.

I have a soft spot for certain shows of years past like GamesMaster or Game Spot that clearly had higher budgets than randoms online sitting on a couch, and I'd argue that having a show can result in a better whole than each segment individually, but they don't back it up with content.
 
Something I want to know is why can corpos not let this format go?

They're out of touch boomers, yes, but it's been almost 20 years since the internet blew legacy media out of the water. You'd think they'd go "oh, these internet people are pulling five times the viewers with one percent of the budget, maybe we could learn a thing or two.", but no. Instead, they keep getting soulless shills (who clearly got the job due to diversity and connections) to read an autocue on overly expensive sets.

I have a soft spot for certain shows of years past like GamesMaster or Game Spot that clearly had higher budgets than randoms online sitting on a couch, and I'd argue that having a show can result in a better whole than each segment individually, but they don't back it up with content.
You could probably make it work on a very tight budget if you did it on the same format as TotalBiscuit's old Co-optional Podcast: two or three hosts and one guest, all recording from their own homes/offices, reviewing the weekly news and talking about what they've been playing.

The problem is that while it's easy to do that with a field as broad as videogames, tabletop RPG is incredibly niche by comparison. With only a couple large publishing houses and an "indie" scene that makes early Steam Greenlight look like the fuckin' Louvre, a video podcast like that would struggle to fill 15 minutes a week unless Wizards or Paizo had made a new announcement, or if they milked every single nontroversy in the industry for all it's worth. And even that last one is a flimsy premise, because I cannot imagine viewers would be that interested in listening to the Nth "transphobia" or "racism" accusation leveraged at the last holdouts of wrongthinkers in the industry.

Yet another "ambitious" project that will get nowhere. If G4, a beloved brand with lots of nostalgia attached to it, couldn't carry on (even without Frosk's bullshit viewership would be low), this idea is a stillbirth.
 
a video podcast like that would struggle to fill 15 minutes a week
Then do that. Have a 15 minute audio podcast once every two weeks or month or whatever. There's no need to pad it out, another habit corpos can't seem to break. It's a practice that made sense on broadcast TV where you had to fill 27 minutes with only 30 seconds of wiggle room, but online doesn't have that restriction.

I could go on writing fanfiction about what my DnD show would be, but it'll suffice to say it isn't what they're making.
 
We've been told Spics, Niggers, Wogs, Redskins, Nips, Chinks, Slants, and Samoans are so stupid and low-IQ that unless delivered a product that directly and explicitly includes humanblobs that are are their shade of brown (and have stupid haircuts) they are unable to relate it. They lack the higher brain functions needed for empathy or imagination, and only white people have them. Because they're saying white people should by the melanin blob products but anything that is 80% nigger is racist oppression because anyone non-white is unable to find anything they can relate or imagine themselves as person in that world.
I miss the times writers would delve into different cultures and produce mostly shallow (thanks to a lack of the ease of information on cultures) but enthusiastic fluff. Most of it's shit, but there is be some lightning there, like the Githzerai being inspired by Daoism and tropes in cyberpunk (Japanese tech dominance). It was all done in good faith.

Now writers can only take the "good" parts of any culture. You can't make Polynesians, Tribal Africans, or Native Americans without utterly sanitizing any fluff (They're not pirates, they don't have wars, and everyone lived in peace before wypipo came). The horrible part is that we live in an era where writers can easily research and understand a culture in a week, and it's being wasted on rehashing old ideas. If old writers were had the ease of accessing knowledge today, we could've seen Polynesian pirates and kingdoms, Indian tollbooth hell, or Israel/Palestine thunderdome settings.
 
Then do that. Have a 15 minute audio podcast once every two weeks or month or whatever. There's no need to pad it out, another habit corpos can't seem to break. It's a practice that made sense on broadcast TV where you had to fill 27 minutes with only 30 seconds of wiggle room, but online doesn't have that restriction.

I could go on writing fanfiction about what my DnD show would be, but it'll suffice to say it isn't what they're making.

Yeah, this is clearly going to be a bland show that probably won't say anything critical despite being "news". The entire Kickstarter is full of marketing goals.

Also they've got crew as Superbackers, kind of sad?

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Yes it is. This is official art from that book. So its OK when WOTC does it.
What do they have against farmers? Gay aristocrats can't handle the sight of a working man?

Working is ablist, bigot.
The privilege of having enough testosterone in your body to move hay bales.
 
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No, just more proof that these people are impossible to satisfy. Leaving aside the fact that this character doesn't remotely look like they belong in a D&D book, they got the wokest, brownest people that they could find to make a micro-setting/anthology about gay, woo-woo crystal space communism and there are still people bitching about it.
 
I miss the times writers would delve into different cultures and produce mostly shallow (thanks to a lack of the ease of information on cultures) but enthusiastic fluff. Most of it's shit, but there is be some lightning there, like the Githzerai being inspired by Daoism and tropes in cyberpunk (Japanese tech dominance). It was all done in good faith.

Now writers can only take the "good" parts of any culture. You can't make Polynesians, Tribal Africans, or Native Americans without utterly sanitizing any fluff (They're not pirates, they don't have wars, and everyone lived in peace before wypipo came). The horrible part is that we live in an era where writers can easily research and understand a culture in a week, and it's being wasted on rehashing old ideas. If old writers were had the ease of accessing knowledge today, we could've seen Polynesian pirates and kingdoms, Indian tollbooth hell, or Israel/Palestine thunderdome settings.
You can't even take the good parts. If you do, you're culturally appropriating.

The saddest part is that you're not wrong. For all the talk about 'we want more diversity', they're absolutely shit at making, y'know, diverse cultures.

I know a lot of stones get slung at old 2E Forgotten Realms for being basic bitch fantasy kitchen sink, but sheesh, at least it didn't suck like Current Year.
 
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