Got it right here:
"Dungeons and Dragons?"
Ah, well. I'll grant you the original artwork is better. Nothing beats Larry Elmore.
Mid 90s AOL was an educational experience and I quickly learned all the dumb feminist bullshit that was being fed to me was just that when I saw the ratio of women to men in the Gor chatrooms.
2E Superiority.
At least the chatroom roleplayers had bizzarre angel dragon catgirl characters that had a spark of fantastical whimsy or imagination. D&D 6e is about as magical as dressing up in assless chaps and throwing glitter on the audience of your local community theater while shouting "I ATTACK THE DARKNESS!"
I've never played any edition except 4th. I do have good memories of my rigger overengineering a minigun that allowed our troll street sam to kill spirits without the need for magic.
"women"
30 years ago? yeah.
Bruh. even in the dialup AOL days. You don't remember?
Remember, Daniel Bunton trooned out in 1992. It was already happening back then, and the text-only chats were likely crawling with them. Dollars to donuts says Paul Jaquays was LARPing as a woman online for 15 years before his 2011 troon-out.
Troons were a joke and had no power then. And increasingly, they're going back to that state as people lose interest with the troon fad.
That's the shittiest battle-dancer take I ever saw, and I'd demand my money back. It also doesn't remotely look like DnD, it looks like something really shitty I'd see in Thirsty Swords Lesbians, and whatever crappy adventure that is made in what is probably a dogshit splat where everyone who made it gets fired will suck.
One thing that annoys me about Gay Earth 2.0 is how everything seems to be less well researched and designed after the Internet became mainstream despite the fact that the whole damn point of it was to be an information repository. People literally drowning in references getting mogged by some guy who had to run down to a school library in the 90s to look up castles.
I thought the left hated showgirls after the director admitted the movie had a anti-porn message?
Eh, my affection for my friends (who I've been gaming with for 20 years) is greater than my distaste for 6E. Systems come and go; friends are what make the game fun.I played 1st edition. But we very quickly moved to 2nd edition when it came out. It fixed some things and a lot of the supplemental material you'd want to make up your "core" game, came out for 2nd, not 1st. I think I get your point but I can't imagine many people who wanted to play 1st not agreeing that 2nd would be an improvement again.
I don't think there's really any 1st vs. 2nd, tbh. There is (1st & 2nd) vs. 3rd. And there's (1st & 2nd) vs. 3rd. vs 4th. 5th was largely a group of 3rd ed. grognards dancing on the corpse of 4e when Catalyst Game Labs screwed over the developers of 4e and turned to the Hate Brigade to produce a new edition so 5th is in many ways an attempt to get back to 3rd (but constrained by resource and ability to do so). So I think the break downs tend to be:
With 3rd vs. 5th having some preference divisions, but 1st vs. 2nd not so much.
- 2nd
- 3rd or 5th
- 4th
Admittedly, it's been some years so I could be off-base. I wont touch Catalyst Game Lab products to this day. And nobody in their right mind wants to play 6th.
EDIT: Uh, no offence @Capsaicin Addict
Someone finally bothered to make a 6e module for foundry(year and a half ago or so), when the 5e(and the limits can be toggled off to use it for 4e) module has been out for years, even though shadowrun 6e came out before foundry.Eh, my affection for my friends (who I've been gaming with for 20 years) is greater than my distaste for 6E. Systems come and go; friends are what make the game fun.
But none of you are wrong, and honestly if it had been anyone else I'd have given it a pass. Ah well.
It does say something that I cannot for love or money find a goddamn optimization guide for 6E anywhere online. Gee, it's like nobody's playing it and can be arsed to put together a build guide.
However a game tends to last longer than a single one-off session or short campaign when its reasonably intuitive, not frustrating, and actually good. Or functional really; a lot of games people like are just decent really.