No, cosplaying a drow isn’t racist
Is that drow on the right dual-wielding banjos? So last weekend R.A. Salvatore had his photo taken with some folks cosplaying drow, and it was posted to the official D&D Twitter feed. Naturally,...
View ArticleStep Right Up and Spin the Wheel!
Lately, it seems that every year there’s some sort of politically correct outrage coming on the heels of GenCon. This year, with GenCon slightly more than two weeks away, I thought I’d save everybody...
View ArticleJeremy Hambly Attacked at GenCon
So this weekend at GenCon, Jeremy Hambly, who does the YouTube channel The Quartering, was physically assaulted at a bar. I’m not going to get into the details, but Jeremy has done a good job of laying...
View ArticleWe’re All Fascists Now
(Image from Ralph Bakshi’s film “Wizards”) I’ve been trying to lay low on the politics as of late, but sometimes there comes along a criticism of D&D that is so mind-numbingly stupid that it...
View ArticleThe OSR has no gatekeepers…
…and that’s intentional. I stumbled across a blog post today, which said, in part: Again, this is a difference between the OSR and indie scenes – any fool who starts a blog and claims it to be OSR is...
View ArticleHarrison Bergeron Plays D&D
So Sean K Reynolds and Shanna Germain have stirred up a bit of a pot with the publication of their pdf booklet Consent in Gaming. As the title implies, it’s all about players telling GMs what they (the...
View ArticleDisclaimers & Dragons
Sometime over the last couple of days, Wizards of the Coast decided to put up the following disclaimer on all D&D products earlier than 5th edition, plus a few 5E items as well: Setting aside the...
View ArticleThe Camel’s Head is In D&D’s Tent
Most of us are familiar with the parable of the camel’s nose under the tent: One cold night, as an Arab sat in his tent, a camel gently thrust his nose under the flap and looked in. “Master,” he said,...
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