The Mary Sue

[neverendingmidi]

I mean lets just be honest, Hollywood is a pretty shitty working environment in general (and a pretty shitty social environment overall). The Harvey Weinsteins of the world are just the tip of the iceberg. People have died on Hollywood sets before (The Twilight Zone movie had a notorious helicopter accident that costed the lives of Vic Morrow and two child actors, for example) and people being injured during stunts or difficult scenes is kind of par for the course.

Why should Hollywood value lives when there's 500,000 people per day trying to get in?It's like journalism majors complaining about unpaid internships, they're unpaid because they could open the door and get 1,000 applications in a day. Hollywood could chuck extras into a wood chipper after filming and still have people showing up to cattlecalls the next day.

 

[AnOminous]

Why should Hollywood value lives when there's 500,000 people per day trying to get in?It's like journalism majors complaining about unpaid internships, they're unpaid because they could open the door and get 1,000 applications in a day. Hollywood could chuck extras into a wood chipper after filming and still have people showing up to cattlecalls the next day.

The people who complain about unpaid internships aren't the people who got them. Those are lucky people because they can afford to graduate from college and then spend a year not being paid. Because they're already rich and from vastly privileged backgrounds.

Those internships, where you get tons of free networking and it amounts to a free ticket to a paid job afterwards, are a perk. They really fuck over people who could have used those jobs and would have been being paid for doing them otherwise.

It's supposed to be illegal to use internships as a source of free labor, but that's exactly what they do and it kills the market for people who actually need to be paid something to work, driving wages down for people who actually need work in favor of people who don't because they're already trust fund babies.

 

[Starscreams Cape]

How Dungeons and Dragons Became So Wonderfully Gay

Dungeons and Dragons' player base has become more diverse. Not only is it a more welcoming place for women and people of color, but now, D&D is also pretty gay.

www.themarysue.com

"... This shift, making D&D more welcoming to non-straight-white-male players, is by no means an accident. With the game’s fifth edition, it’s clear that D&D publisher Wizards of the Coast has been making an effort to foster a diverse community around the game, both in its outreach and in its published materials. This feels most apparent in its most recent modules. In Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, a non-player character shopkeeper uses they/them pronouns and politely corrects player characters if they’re misgendered...

In the followup module, Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage, player characters may encounter an NPC whom they can aid in returning to her wife... "

Ooh, sorry Kody. When I run Dragon Heist I'm going to turn the shopkeeper into a total dudebro poonhound and the NPC in need of aid will repay the PC's with blowjobs.

Should I turn myself in somewhere for these unauthorized changes?

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

How Dungeons and Dragons Became So Wonderfully Gay

Dungeons and Dragons' player base has become more diverse. Not only is it a more welcoming place for women and people of color, but now, D&D is also pretty gay.

www.themarysue.com

Ooh, sorry Kody. When I run Dragon Heist I'm going to turn the shopkeeper into a total dudebro poonhound and the NPC in need of aid will repay the PC's with blowjobs.

Should I turn myself in somewhere for these unauthorized changes?

This reminds me, at my school's DnD club there were a few girls wearing a T shirt with the logo in LGBT colors.

This shit annoys me because it's got fuck all to do with actually playing the game.

 

[Starscreams Cape]

This reminds me, at my school's DnD club there were a few girls wearing a T shirt with the logo in LGBT colors.

This shit annoys me because it's got fuck all to do with actually playing the game.

Exactly. As long as it's a solid rule set (and generally I think 5e is) who the fuck cares that random NPC 3 is furry otherkin. You are free to change whatever the fuck you want.

 

[CWCissey]

How Dungeons and Dragons Became So Wonderfully Gay

Dungeons and Dragons' player base has become more diverse. Not only is it a more welcoming place for women and people of color, but now, D&D is also pretty gay.

www.themarysue.com

Ooh, sorry Kody. When I run Dragon Heist I'm going to turn the shopkeeper into a total dudebro poonhound and the NPC in need of aid will repay the PC's with blowjobs.

Should I turn myself in somewhere for these unauthorized changes?

Oh great, now my Level 12 Pirate motherfucker Gerald The Bastard has gotta start rapin' as well as pillagin'

 

[Emperor Julian]

Well it's a very nice obvious piece of native advertising, no doubt D&D will re-enforce this commitment to selling to LGBT and minorties communities by lowering prices, afterall such people often have a difficult time in their teen years, allowing everyone quick and cheap access to the setting is not doubt what Wizards of the coast had in mind when they started doing a massive song and dance about this stuff where they made sure everyone knew they where doing it. Making this very brave stand I mean.

The piece author sounds fucking insufferable

https://twitter.com/Kody_Keplinger/status/1121306578995548160

I suppose we should be grateful they're not going full magical real like Forgotten realms back in the day

Forgotten Realms - 1d4chan

1d4chan.org

 

[Starscreams Cape]

Well it's a very nice obvious piece of native advertising, no doubt D&D will re-enforce this commitment to selling to LGBT and minorties communities by lowering prices, afterall such people often have a difficult time in their teen years, allowing everyone quick and cheap access to the setting is not doubt what Wizards of the coast had in mind when they started doing a massive song and dance about this stuff where they made sure everyone knew they where doing it. Making this very brave stand I mean.

The piece author sounds fucking insufferable

https://twitter.com/Kody_Keplinger/status/1121306578995548160

I suppose we should be grateful they're not going full magical real like Forgotten realms back in the day

Forgotten Realms - 1d4chan

1d4chan.org

Mike Mearls, the lead guy on 5e, is a real treat himself. Typical inoffensive, mushy soyboy who I am 100% sure is using his wokeness to get a boobtouch.

On Twitter he once "fired" D&D guys who use the inherent math of the game to keep out women because apparently they're too dumb to do it. Hilariously when people started asking where he saw anyone actually say this he got prickly and couldn't produce one. Project much, Mike?

If D&D had to be led by a guy, Mearls would have probably been The Mary Sue's first choice. Unfortunately it's actually a decent ruleset so I was regrettably forced to throw money at it.

 

[ChevroletBlackboard]

Mike Mearls once actually said that part of the reason 5e made the ruleset simpler was because the more numbers-focused early editions of D&D were just gatekeeping women and minorities.

It seemingly never dawned on Mikey that this made it sound like he was saying women and minorities were too stupid to play the older editions and that they needed some white men to dumb it down.

 

[Emperor Julian]

Yeah I know a little about mike, he seems to have a bad habit of deciding what the game should be and telling people who like differant aspects or disagree with him that they're "playing it wrong." or cultivating positive behavours or somesuch asinine shit.

When designing a game, consider the personality traits and behaviors the game encourages in its player. Then ask yourself if you want to make a game for a community that embraces what you’re encouraging.
That tweet is a nicer way of saying: If you make a game for assholes, be ready, willing, and able to deal with assholes.
It’s also why D&D got out of the business of trying to “fix” obnoxious people.

Sorry Mike you're not my mum, I'm here to raid a dungeon and Ruin Orcus' shit with my mates. I get on fine with the other players because where irl mates the systems designed so we have to co-operate and that's the mindset you go in with.

Their seems to be a culture at wizzards of the coast. The delusion that they can make their games suitable for 'everybody' while out the same time trying to phase out certain style of play or outlook. Looking at his comments and you're full of people who lament the emphasis on violence in D&D. Which is frankly absurd considering their are hundreds of Games out there where the dynamics are completly differant.
I don't go to WoD if I want a dungeon romp, I Don't play CoC for a swashbuckling adventure on the high sea's why the fuck would I play D&D if I want to play a mechanics light game where you talk through your problems?

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Yeah I know a little about mike, he seems to have a bad habit of deciding what the game should be and telling people who like differant aspects or disagree with him that they're "playing it wrong." or cultivating positive behavours or somesuch asinine shit.



Sorry Mike you're not my mum, I'm here to raid a dungeon and Ruin Orcus' shit with my mates. I get on fine with the other players because where irl mates the systems designed so we have to co-operate and that's the mindset you go in with.

Their seems to be a culture at wizzards of the coast. The delusion that they can make their games suitable for 'everybody' while out the same time trying to phase out certain style of play or outlook. Looking at his comments and you're full of people who lament the emphasis on violence in D&D. Which is frankly absurd considering their are hundreds of Games out there where the dynamics are completly differant.
I don't go to WoD if I want a dungeon romp, I Don't play CoC for a swashbuckling adventure on the high sea's why the fuck would I play D&D if I want to play a mechanics light game where you talk through your problems?

It's not about making it suitable for everyone. It's about getting the "Fucking White Cis Males" out of it.

 

[GarthVader]

The piece author sounds fucking insufferable

https://twitter.com/Kody_Keplinger/status/1121306578995548160

I suppose we should be grateful they're not going full magical real like Forgotten realms back in the day

Forgotten Realms - 1d4chan

1d4chan.org

The stupid projecting twat might not be legally blind if she lightened up on the eye liner. I like how all her character concepts are "look at me!" The great thing about D&D is the myriad of ways you can play it, but.....I would pick up my dice and fake a burst appendix if that sat down at the same table.

 

[Meowthkip]

How Dungeons and Dragons Became So Wonderfully Gay

Dungeons and Dragons' player base has become more diverse. Not only is it a more welcoming place for women and people of color, but now, D&D is also pretty gay.

www.themarysue.com

Ooh, sorry Kody. When I run Dragon Heist I'm going to turn the shopkeeper into a total dudebro poonhound and the NPC in need of aid will repay the PC's with blowjobs.

Should I turn myself in somewhere for these unauthorized changes?

I don't understand how DnD isn't accessible to women, LGBT people and minorities. All you need is a group of friends, some manuals, dice, paper, pencils, and your imagination. You can really be whatever you want, if you're able to make stats for it, and do whatever you want. It's one of the most open-ended games you could possibly play and there's plenty of room for adding whatever you want.

How fucking lame and lazy do you have to be to think that it's somehow not inclusive enough?

 

[AlexGroans]

I don't understand how DnD isn't accessible to women, LGBT people and minorities. All you need is a group of friends, some manuals, dice, paper, pencils, and your imagination. You can really be whatever you want, if you're able to make stats for it, and do whatever you want. It's one of the most open-ended games you could possibly play and there's plenty of room for adding whatever you want.

How fucking lame and lazy do you have to be to think that it's somehow not inclusive enough?

Well, given the differences between 3.5e (4e is generally unpopular) and 5e are loosened the general rules, making bards the best and boring combat for everyone that isn’t a mage, I guess it was the fun sword-and-board violence that wasn’t inclusive

 

[robobobo]

In Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, a non-player character shopkeeper uses they/them pronouns and politely corrects player characters if they’re misgendered...

How will a random shop monkey wind up being misgendered? Think about it for a sec. In order for the "wrong pronouns" to come into use, people have to be talking about the shopkeep, in front of the shopkeep. Who's going to just park in a random fantasy store and have a conversation about the staff of the store, in front of them? It's a scenario that won't ever occur. Nobody's going to waste time in their game session having an in-character discussion about the random asshole you just bought some rations from. Anyone who thinks they will has clearly never once played in a RPG.

It's like that Mass Effect Andromeda character whose first line on meeting you is a long spiel about how trans they are, what their birth name is, etc, etc. Shit that nobody would be telling every stranger who walks up to them.

 

[AnOminous]

It's like that Mass Effect Andromeda character whose first line on meeting you is a long spiel about how trans they are, what their birth name is, etc, etc. Shit that nobody would be telling every stranger who walks up to them.

They would if they were some fucked up, mentally ill, fat, blue haired tumblr troon.

 

[CWCissey]

That shopkeeper's getting murdered and everything in their store stolen.

 

[AnOminous]

That shopkeeper's getting murdered and everything in their store stolen.

Just keep misgendering them until they commit suicide.

 

[Emperor Julian]

Can I just play a lawful evil type and get some oppresion on the Name of my Satanic overlords Asmodeus and Bane?

"Hmm pronouns you say Shopkeeper? what makes you think I value your life enough that I'm going to use anything better than it?....like everyone else I meet."

 

[robobobo]

>"Okay, we got what we need? I'll tell the shopkeep that he-"
>"The shopkeeper politely corrects you that their preferred pronoun is 'they/them'".
>"...I roll for initiative."