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Autistic Joe said:
Found this from a few years ago in this thread, sadly no links to an RPGnet ban notice. What was his user name?

Screw Danlon

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I was thinking of their FATAL review from years ago and how actually hilarious it was. (In hindsight, it still had a little bit of complaining about homophobia and sexism, but considering how over the top it was in the game, it felt justified to mock it.)

Can you imagine Darrin MacLennan writing this today and not getting banned immediately? And I’m pretty sure Sartin was banned years ago for offending people.

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Reasonably certain this is/was him:
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Hasn't been active for a looooong time.
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Hugbox Kommissar said:
Reasonably certain this is/was him:
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Hasn't been active for a looooong time.
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Looks that that's him alright:
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So I guess he didn't get banned. His user banner would say so, like the guy right below him in that thread. He just stopped coming around back in 2003, brief pitstop in 2006, and nothing since then.

Also thought this was funny, a few posts earlier in that same thread... "the Saga of the Golden Dildo". 😁
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Hard to believe that place once had such a fun, freewheeling atmosphere. Nowadays you'd probably cop a ban for making a humorous reference to a dildo. The mods would say it was a "Group Attack and Transphobia" while coping, seething, and dilating on theirs.
 
Autistic Joe said:
Hard to believe that place once had such a fun, freewheeling atmosphere. Nowadays you'd probably cop a ban for making a humorous reference to a dildo. The mods would say it was a "Group Attack and Transphobia" while coping, seething, and dilating on theirs.
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Pity the guy's vanished, I'd love to get the take from a long term member who jumped ship eons ago and what they think of the place now.
 
Nibbles said:
Example from 2002 https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/a-night-at-the-inn-a-day-at-the-racists.13446/

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Genuinely surprised he was still posting those on rpg.net as late as 2015. Feels like a relic of a lost age, like watching a diplodocus cross I-20.
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Lmao even back then they were grandstanding about rulebook piracy.

Mola Ram said:
Al Bruno III's gaming stories were the fucking best. I reread them over and over and they never failed to make me laugh.

And good news, everyone! They still exist!

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Binder of Shame and the Book of Gord occupy the same shelf in my mental library. Crazy to think we'll never get anything like that again.
 
Hugbox Kommissar said:
Binder of Shame and the Book of Gord occupy the same shelf in my mental library. Crazy to think we'll never get anything like that again.
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Al might start writing again someday. His life went through major upheaval -- his first wife start having health problems around 2015 or so and died in 2019 -- but updates on his blog show up from time to time.
 
Hugbox Kommissar said:
Genuinely surprised he was still posting those on rpg.net as late as 2015. Feels like a relic of a lost age, like watching a diplodocus cross I-20.
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Lmao even back then they were grandstanding about rulebook piracy.


Binder of Shame and the Book of Gord occupy the same shelf in my mental library. Crazy to think we'll never get anything like that again.
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Book of Gord fan? Holy shit, I remember that guy. Good times.
 
Hugbox Kommissar said:
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Like so many other topics on rpg.net there's no sense in talking about alignment because there's only one allowed point of view and you'll get banned if you disagree.
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"...or whatever."

I cannot imagine why this poster is so dismissive of the experiences of ancient northern Europeans whose colonial oppression was also justified by an expansionist empire's opinion of them as savages. The poster not considering it a crime of the same magnitude is truly a mystery.

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Athena Loves Kiwis said:
"...or whatever."

I cannot imagine why this poster is so dismissive of the experiences of ancient northern Europeans whose colonial oppression was also justified by an expansionist empire's opinion of them as savages. The poster not considering it a crime of the same magnitude is truly a mystery.
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That was white-on-white so it's alright. Even better when you realize that reply was from Zeea: "20-year hero", former superstar moderator, and of course, a troon.
 
Manly_Brony said:
I play historical RPGs and every new one or recent edition needs to have a section on how diverse the White countries really were, what pronouns were used, how women ran things from the background and how they packed fudge, munched carpets and crossdressed. It's all so tiresome. It has its place in a footnote here and there but not whole chapters.
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My favorite TTRPG setting is L5R (not 1:1 historical, but heavy into traditional Japanese history.)

I remember there was a 5e compatible supplement called "Adventures in Rokugan" that was notorious among the community for being dogshit. So I said okay, how bad can it be.

I shouldve known when I saw the words "Cultural consultant" below the books authors.

First quarter of that book was snarkily telling you that playing humans only is boring and restricts creativity, and then proceeds to say things like seppuku are icky bad no no wrongfun triggers and we as a society need to "do better" and push past the "harmful stereotypes" of japanese culture.

This is especially infuriating when I consider L5R and its original publications a genuine love letter to japanese history and culture. Even if its not 100% authentic and has some pulpy camp here and there, you can tell the people who created it put their hearts into the setting and wanted to make something special.

Now 20 years later some brainrotted california suburbanite asian american who probably cant even use chopsticks busts down the door and gets to rewrite everything so its "safe and welcoming."
 
ChiliChumper said:
My favorite TTRPG setting is L5R (not 1:1 historical, but heavy into traditional Japanese history.)

I remember there was a 5e compatible supplement called "Adventures in Rokugan" that was notorious among the community for being dogshit. So I said okay, how bad can it be.

I shouldve known when I saw the words "Cultural consultant" below the books authors.

First quarter of that book was snarkily telling you that playing humans only is boring and restricts creativity, and then proceeds to say things like seppuku are icky bad no no wrongfun triggers and we as a society need to "do better" and push past the "harmful stereotypes" of japanese culture.

This is especially infuriating when I consider L5R and its original publications a genuine love letter to japanese history and culture. Even if its not 100% authentic and has some pulpy camp here and there, you can tell the people who created it put their hearts into the setting and wanted to make something special.

Now 20 years later some brainrotted california suburbanite asian american who probably cant even use chopsticks busts down the door and gets to rewrite everything so its "safe and welcoming."
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Adventures in Rokugan came out around the time the mainline L5R RPG books got cultural consultants and started to be a) much shorter, b) focused on everything but the fake-Japanese and c) have sidebars about performing decolonization at the table. You wanted more info on the Dragon clan in the supplement dedicated to them? Too bad, 90% of all the new player options are non-humans and tribals from beyond Rokugan. But surely, they would actually detail the pseudo-Mongols in the Unicorn clan supplement? No, tough shit. 60% of the book is foreigners. This is especially infuriating, since L5R 5e already had a book that dealt with ronin and foreigners and had rules for making your own schools. The stupidest part was probably renaming shugenja, so as not to offend real-life practitioners of shugendo. I'm sure the semi-hermitic ascetics were very offended by an American tabletop rpg.

(And while L5R is a love letter to Japanese history and culture, it's also inaccurate as shit in almost every respect. That's part of its charm though. Everyone should be committing seppuku at the drop of a hat. Only the pseudo-Mongol clan has actual horses, even though one of the most famous military maneuvers in Japanese history was a cavalry charge long before contact with Mongols. It's an exaggerated version of 20th century Imperial Japanese idea of bushido which itself was massively exaggerated from the ideal behavior of samurai class under the shogunate. The name similarity of the Isawa family to the Iwa people, one of the few non-Yamato tribes who haven't been completely erased, is probably accidental.)
 
Henri Barbusse said:
Adventures in Rokugan came out around the time the mainline L5R RPG books got cultural consultants and started to be a) much shorter, b) focused on everything but the fake-Japanese and c) have sidebars about performing decolonization at the table.
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Oh boy, I should catch up on this terrible.

7th Sea is relaunching again too, given how much the last one pandered to current year sensibilities this should too be hilarious.
 
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