Also sexism why the hell the women design to meet conservatives cis men sex appeal and I say conservatives cis men because as a cis men who not derange I find women who are chubby attractive maybe not fat but that me and some cis guy next to me would be into fat chick but I would fine some flat chick hot as some big breast women not every dude the same also their women who have their own interests Also add that the women he shown all seem to dress in a sexual manner adding to the sexism why are every women dress like that it fine if it some but most if not all come on man
kind of guy that I'd likely be uncomfortable sitting at the table with most likely. Usually I don't have to feel conscious of me being the only black guy at the table, but some people just give off as "definitely racist"
He’s got such a bad case of Main Character Syndrome that he sees Wizards of the Coast diversifying their products to bring in more players and assumes they’re actually doing it to specifically attack him & his white boomer brethren.
@@dusk2308 It’s really fun, basically everyone is a demon so in essence not having dark vision is a disability, light sources just aren’t a part of society. They exist but they are in essence just a form of art. Food also often doesn’t need to be cooked can be eaten rotten and poison is rare. So cooking is basically universally seen as high class like we see highly seasoned dishes and poison that can be lethal is incredibly valuable relive to most worlds.
@@dusk2308 It’s fun, basically everyone has dark vision so they don’t really use light sources or care about the sun. It’s nice to add things to the world to enhance fantasy but removing things is incredibly interesting. The also don’t require their food to be cooked or care about spoilage rot doesn’t harm them; they can just eat it. So cooking is often a high class affair and cooking somewhat rotten food is preferred. They also don’t care about fire, most of them are demons so combat works differently, fire is for siege as it doesn’t damage people. It’s just really fun.
Ill give him that, for the 80s and 90s most games were pretty much all dudes. Hell, majority of players are still dudes, and a chunk of games are still all dudes. Does not excuse him being a dipshit, however.
The Masculine desire to play pretend with dolls they used make up tutorials to paint so they can write a fan fiction with their friends in their basement. (this is a joke >.>)
This guy wants to compare D&D to classic war-games as if he's making some kind of point, but the whole thing that makes D&D distinct from those old games is that the figures on the board are more than just faceless soldiers who exist only to kill and die. They're characters. The fact that D&D offers such a wide range of backgrounds, racial heritages, and professions is exactly what makes it, ideologically, a celebration of diversity at its core. This guy is literally mad over one of the foundational pillars of a game he claims to love, because he lacks the imagination to actually play it.
People like him only want the war games. He wants good guys good, bad guys bad. They can't understand anything else because they can't see themselves as anything but
Exactly. And at this point. A World that is the setting for a Roleplaying Game being as diverse isn't some glitch in the system. A Table Top Game that everyone wants to play is gonna have some updates, Critical Role is even more inclusive.
I can see his point in a better light because old school TRPG used to be much more gritty and "wargame-like" with characters being very expendable. But obviously that's a LONG time ago and modern TRPG is effectively a different genre.
He's the kind of person who looks at a homebrew Humans-only faction lead by someone described as "Adolstus Caesler" and think "Yeah, those are the good guys."
I've been writing the Federated Free People's Republics as overtly socialist but imperfect (The PPC, for example, are a unscrupulous reactionary Bolshevik-type political organization) opposition to the overtly Theo-Fascist Dominion of Man. They don't have a "Military" they have the "All-Volunteer Community Defense Committees ." They don't have landlords; buildings are owned and managed by the "Tenant's Unions." Guilds are democratic. Companies are democratic. The government is an elected multi-party unicameral parliament; party leaders are selected according to the bylaws of the party. (The PPC party leader is selected internally by party officials and not by party democracy, again, because the PPC is bad.)
@@kingofsting19 me neither. I learned about it months ago, but it's meant to be set in a different region of Greyhawk's setting known as Western Oerik, aka the Sundered Empires, and had factions and lore made for it and everything. I think that not picking up is what set Chainmail in the grave.
I love when he compares WotC to the people who destroyed roman architecture and art. Uuh those people were Christians, which I thought were the good guys in these people's minds.
@@trappedinamerica7740 Yeah conveniently after Christianity became popular is when Rome fell. Still a correlation but a better one than the gays were the cause
I think the rationalisation is that the bad ones were not the Christians, it was the evil Catholics (ignore the fact that they're obviously Christians), bane of progress and civilization (insert graph of 'no technological advance for 1000 years' here). Fortunately, America then founded true Christianity (ignore the fact that they did not).
I think he means that "it is used so often that no one notices it as before!" But it kinda feels like a stupid complain, no one ever looked at female warrior in media and went "oh wow, woman with a sword, this subverts my expectations!"
I have never had an instance during my life time where anyone I encountered would have given it a second thought. What rock did sunglass-boi live under his entire life?
Yeah, I'm not even into fantasy and DnD all that much, but I'm fairly certain female warriors have been commonplace in fantasy media in general for a long damn time now. Since at least the 70s.
The other day I called out some nerds on being upset about furries in d&d. Asked them "why are you guys so obsessed with politics?" as they like to ask. I got my comment deleted because "don't you know someone just tried to start a civil war???". Funny how these guys can't handle their own medicine.
That’s really sad, I know a guy who I know is straight and not a furry has a jaguar OC who beds outer men. I haven’t thought about it until some right wing jackass asks a how weird it is… but like… it’s not weird. They can RP however they want… that’s the point of RP.
@@n0etic_f0x I'm not a furry myself but I couldn't care less what other people are into. Especially in d&d. The way these guys get upset over this stuff in a fantasy world of their own creation. It's like they don't realize you can do literally anything you want. As GM you can create whatever world you want. If you REALLY hate minorities then you can play in nazi world I guess. The d&d police won't show up and force diversity into your game. I wish there was a way to make these dorks feel some shame for acting like enormous babies all the time.
As a white, human male, I don't think I've EVER cared to play a regular human man in a DnD game. I always want to play some kind of weird bullshit, like a Warforged Rogue, Tiefling Bard or a Minotaur Paladin or some other sort of crazy fantasy shit. I think the most "normal" thing I've ever played was a Dwarf Cleric. There are so many possible choices in a game like this, that it would be foolish for the art in the books to not reflect the many, many, MANY different combinations a player (or DM) can engage in. Having that reflected in the art of the book the players will look through the most is perfect for inspiration. And it's not like anything's stopping you from just playing a doorkicker dungeon campaign with a human fighter and an elf wizard and all that "basic" shit. These dudes are so WEIRD. And they can't even say "go woke, go broke", because I'm pretty sure 5e has been their most financially successful edition ever, and has been successful in appealing to a more diverse array of players than it ever has been. And yes, the female orc paladin art he keeps putting up is cool as fuck. I've seen it in official materials a few times and it kicks ass. I'd want a card of her in Magic the Gathering.
I've always gravitated toward the most inhuman/monstrous characters of any game that I played, video or otherwise, and was honestly shocked when I grew up and found out that base human is usually the most/among the most popular option(s) for any game. "I'm already a human, why would I want to play another one?"
@@TheGateShallStandTo an extent. It’s all about balance. Too much restriction, and of course you’re going to limit creativity. I worked with my DM to create a unique player character, and the restrictions helped. I made a Half-Dragon sorcerer, who uses the stats of the Dragonborn race, but instead is the product of a human woman and a male dragon (polymorph into human form) having a kid. I asked the DM if feathered dragons existed in their world, so I could give her feathers. I worked with the DM to make something that fits their lore, but was also fun for me. She started out looking mostly human, but was gradually gaining draconic features because of her unhoned polymorph abilities. The DM would throw in a wildcard like “your character wakes up the next morning with a tail!” We ended up creating something super interesting because of the restrictions, but also, some leeway on the DM’s end.
So to these guys being said not to *default* all the characters in the art as just "white blonde men" when they already have a lot of them is, what he feels victimized by. 🙄🙄
2:56 - So...he's put off by a positive stereotype because he prefers an ugly one? As someone who's ethnically ambiguous who grew up in white suburbs, I hated this kind of guy in my nerd stores.
Even worse is that Men in fiction can be old, ugly, young, good, bad etc. But women are always conventionally pretty and young. I was actually really impressed when i was watching this video and saw that character art of an old(er) warrior woman instead of the typical 25 year old white woman that everyone likes to draw.
Even worse is that Men in fiction can be old, ugly, young, good, bad etc. But women are always conventionally pretty and young. I was actually really impressed when i was watching this video and saw that character art of an old(er) warrior woman instead of the typical 25 year old white woman that everyone likes to draw.
Like queens and princesses are always portrayed as the most beautiful and elegant people ever. You know how MANY royals were incest children back in the days? Some royals would have been UGLY UGLY. Like facial deformities, missing fingers, lazy eyes, spinal deformities etc. I’m saying this because we always see ugly or rugged men with scars, missing eyes, fingers etc. But the woman have to stay “intact” in order to stay pretty. Why? Lets give women eyepatches, scars, burnmarks
Oh its like the chuds in SW who are fine with the Chiss (who are blue!!) But a dark skinned human?? In a role of importance?? Golly that's imagination gone too far apparently.
It's fascinating how he doesn't realise that the whole concept of an "adventurer" Is historically inaccurate. Like just an independent warrior that walks around the land doing quests and stuff? That wasn't common, you'd just be part of an army or mercenary group or whatever.
Isn't the point of Dungeons and Dragons is to create your own world with their own societies and cultures, the rules are just guidelines for how combat, language, classes, spells, and etc work. But at any point you can bend and break those rules. It's fair if you want to play a historically accurate campaign with the vast majority of pcs and npcs are men. I think for the most part though Dungeons and Dragons takes place in fantastical settings where there is magic and octopus people, it makes no sense why there wouldn't be women fighter and warriors. Plus I buy a bunch of the D&D modules but I almost never follow them religiously nor do I think anyone else does.
It's seriously hard to believe this dude even plays/enjoys DnD. He's just the DnD version of Quarterpounder back when he had a Magic the Gathering channel.
Old gamer here. He reminds me of one of those guys in a MUD I used to play who would argue that women's stats should be lowered to reflect reality. Thank god none of the coders ever listened to them
@@zenbear9952lol i bet they’d think a female Dragonborn or orc should have lower stats than a male human or something, even though that makes no sense. I’m sure they’d ~totally~ remember that with certain species, the females are larger than the males 😉
He wants to only play with people like himself hearkening back to an imaginary golden age as if one of the most important people in the history of D&D helping shape key aspects all the way back in 1st edition wasn't a Trans woman, Jennel Jaquays was an absolute legend.
@@chetmanley1885 but it's not their toys. INo-one is coming into their home to repaint their he-man toy a different tone of hair colour, it's like being enraged that the store is selling a colour variant they don't want or need anyway because they already have their yellow haired one and don't want anyone to have a light brown haired one.
Hold on... "... bring back men who aren't insecure about colours... bring back men who are secure..." I have to point out that this statement makes no sense and is ridiculous. I am an elder Millennial that grew up with Gen X's around sunglasses-dork's age. These were the people who couldn't wear pink because that would make you gay (being afraid of exploring their own sexuality), and would attempt to emasculate me for drinking a lime cooler over some piss tasting beer. Millennials finally achieved masculinity. Going back just gets you to these hyper fragile men. Keep masculinity, and lets make D&D more gay.
As a Gen-X Trans who knows many that share my ilk and age range, a kid in the 80's when the cool bois were wearing neon colours, crazy patterns, gummy bracelets, and crop tops, I do believe you are mistaken. Though I do agree with the sentiment behind it.
I am a straight white dude who often plays captain marvel-esque female warriors/paladins because that messy, mud covered confidence after a battle is cool af on a lady
@@CassidiVine Thank you for sharing. I am super interested in your perspective. I am specifically talking about the 1980-1981 cut off, where I fall on the Millennial side and my brother falls on the Gen X side but we are not that many years apart in age. We all are going to have different perspectives and experiences with these things. And I would love to hear where ours diverge. I may be mistaken, but I do not believe my brother was one who ever wear a cut-off shirt, or would. I do remember the early 90's where a guy could wear pink if it was part of the 90's acid dream colour splash thing (like windbreaker... so many windbreakers) but if you wore just a full pink shirt you would be picked on, but maybe that was coming more from the Millennial crowd and my older brother just went along with it...? idk. But Pink Shirt Day is a thing because a kid was bullied for wearing a colour. In your experience have you seen the restriction of "girl colours" on men? Or is this just something you never experienced?
@@Poisonfrogg I suppose locale might definitely play a role in this- I know the Pink Shirt Day thing as being a response condemning bullying (don't get me wrong, I was bullied a lot growing up, but certainly not because of the colour of my shirt!). I grew up in one of the most progressive metropolitan cities in Canada. I honestly do not know when precisely it became 'uncool', guessing early nineties(?), but by then I was out of school, and let's face it- after school a lot of what others think becomes a non-issue for you and vice versa, hehe. But even in media, Miami Vice? Nagel prints? HUGE. Even though most of my late teens and early twenties, I had mainly a black wardrobe, I can honestly say it was never an issue. Now, as a transfem, no one has more of an issue concerning my wardrobe than I do, but that's another story entirely...long story short, I just lived in an environment where there were bigger issues to separate us than the perceived masculinity of colours.
I can assure you as a young Gen-Xer in the 80s that dudes had no problems wearing neon pink and this chud in the video probably didn't either if he's remotely close in age to me. He was probably rocking crop tops and short shorts as a kid / teen like the rest of us. It wasn't until the 90s that some of us regressed. I did get called gay for having a wire basket on the handlebars of my bike though. 🤷
@@lonewolffang more than that, he’s complaining about it in fucking Dragonlance, where the two big generals of the big war were women. The Golden General Laurana, and the Blue Lady Kitiara. Hell, the biggest badass fighter in the setting learned to fight from his badass older sister who supported the family as a killer for hire
No, you liberals don't understand, he's fine with women being in DnD so long as they're all sexy white blonde women who never beat a dude in a fight and ideally are super seductive. Wizards of the Woke are trying to cram in all this DEI nonsense about drawing some darker skinned characters or having a badass scar on the barbarian lady and that's frankly an insult to the entire DnD community (note: the DnD community is exclusively made up of people who agree with me, everyone else is a fake fan infiltrating the hobby, even if they've been there longer than I have)
my dad is a clean-shaven boomer white guy who still has his original 1st edition D&D set from when he was a teenager. he LOVES that more people are playing it now, including (gasp) his daughter, and he enjoys that games have branched out from being only about the fighting. bonus, he's still married and his kids actually enjoy hanging out with him. this guy is such a loser lol
This guy was an adult man when DnD was most well known as "that thing gay nerds do, after we dunk their heads in a used toilet" fucking based on masculinity, Talos preserve
It is WILD to me to say that including more diverse characters has hurt marvel and disney and will hurt D&D when lots of these fandoms are more mainstream than ever.
Also considering that, yes, there have been some losses on films that Disney and Marvel produced, but overall they're still making money off those films.
@@Spectruetheir losses are due to oversaturation, fomo if you want to keep up and the movies just being mid. Anyone who tries to inject politics into that discussion needs a tire iron over their shins.
Marvel is definitely not doing well on the comics side, they pushed the woke bullshit so far that they ended up with a new superhero called Safe Space, even normies have limits, especially when the new storylines have been complete and utter shit too.
@@paulll47 weird then that they make up 40% of all comics sold, more than any other company. Also, you Cherry picked one character from a completely new line written for the express purpose of showing teen rebels taking back the labels put on modern teenagers by older generations. Other characters in this lineup are "trailblazer, snowflake, b-negative, and screentime" it's not like they put them in the avengers
@@beckiadriaanse6312 Recent retailers surveys says otherwise, gross sales dropped by 69% the last year alone, marvel and dc pushed it so much that even normies got fed up with it, marvel trying to pretend wokies are cool while literally everyone in real life makes fun of them, and dc making established characters gay for no fucking reason.
I'm a woman, 61 yrs old, and have been playing dnd with my sons since they were kids. Now we're teaching the grandkids to play. This guy looks like he's not much older than my 40 yr old. wtf
As someone African American I've never identified orcs for African American. Orc are savage and cool. Did he just admit to envisioning every orc he killed as a black person?
In Greek culture alone Athena is a Goddess of war, Artemis the Goddess of hunters has exclusively female hunters with her, the Amazonians are a group of warrior women, Atlanta, Penthesilea, and Hippolyta are all examples of mythical warrior women in one culture. Complaining about warrior women in fantasy settings is stupid especially when looking at history with a ton of fantasy warrior women in nearly every culture.
Also in terms of pop culture friekrn XENA!!! who not only got her own show it not only lasted longer but is far more remembered than the show it spun off from and was an absolute icon of the 90's
The kind of guy that makes me realize that me being a black man who plays dark skinned anime lesbians or just atypical characters gives him so much psychic damage he has to cry about it to his audience fills me with so much power. Seriously, this guy is unserious, and makes him look like a child who is crying over dnd no longer being a game for white kids in the 80s with too...loose?tight braces and glasses frames held together by tape, with also bad acne. no there are gay people and people of color playing dnd in LARGER numbers compared to before. At the end of the day, we all know wizards doesn't give a damn about those people, grognards or otherwise. They're doing this because they like money. Honestly the new books don't seem worth the price to me, 180 is asking a lot, don't care if the bundle is "valued at 240". goofy ahh business, I'll wait for it to be in my "sources" later, most of the changes seem to be from unearthed arcana more or less anyways.
"It's based on napoleonic wargame, so it must be mainly masculine" Ok bro... Then, you may only play D&D if you're french. Oh, and btw, Napoleon 1st had a handful of female officers in his army.
I think its extremely ironic when conservatives that are usually extremely pro capitalism get mad about companies profit seeking only when they try to appeal to a more diverse audience 🤣
As a mexican I can say those orcs are definitely mexican coded and I love it. I feel like people calling it racist are just upset to see brown people slighty represented or even be eluded to even if the mexican vibe is just a happy accident.
Right? And let's not notice the background they are set on is a friggin' arid tract of land. Why the hell NOT Mexican? Gods forbid the artist actually have FUN with what they're creating.
Its not only they are mexican but also they look friendly and peacefull. If they were depicted as classic pure evil, brutish monsters and still mexican-coded, I bet this guy would be happy about it, probably called it "based and realistic" 💀
@@mxb1585 Focusing here, the guy's issue is with artwork, which has little to nothing to do in any way with the Orcs' actual lore AW, whatever that may be. It is a departure from the typical metal depictions of orcs. Personally, I find having multiple takes on a facet of a game world to be less boring. Want to make orcs unique? That's kinda the whole point, and usually falls into the wheelhouse of the GM and homebrew.
'D&D was founded on masculine principles'.....Ahh yes, the masculine urge to sit in a poorly lit room with math rocks performing nitpicking f*ckery all weekend in tablecloth capes (yes, I did it in my teens, too- but then again, I AM transfem, so...).
To be fair, D&D originated from tabletop War Games that were really popular in the pre-50s era, and that fanbase was definitely considered masculine at the time
@@flunkiebubs2002 This is true, but pretty irrelevant in that it has to adapt to the start of what we know it to be today. Pretty sure this guy wasn't old enough to go THAT far back. Also of note is that in that initial format it was virtually like an early warhammer, for lack of better explanation, and anyone who's grown up with even 1st ed. AD&D books in their possession (I had the core 3 and Deities and Demigods), knows how egregious the artwork was at that point. I'm not sure as Chainmail it even had that level of art or intricacy to it. Hell, D&D came out around the year I was born, if I'm not mistaken, and I'm now pushin' 50.
@@flunkiebubs2002 Ha, it's all good- my response wasn't an attempt to take you to task on it, just sharing my thoughts on the matter and how it pertained to what he was referring to.
@@dreamsprayanimationyou do realize that the words male and female can refer to both sex and gender. All you have to do is a little bit of research, that question is not the catch you think it is.
What I hate is how he keeps pitting the older artwork against the newer artwork. I really love a lot of artwork from the AD&D days. I still keep a lot of it around as handouts. I also have a lot of 2014 artwork as handouts for setting the scene over my VTT games. I also make plenty of artwork myself (I'm more of a cartoony look, but whatever).
I guess he doesn't know that one of TSR's major artists and writers who helped shape the game in key ways was a Trans woman. Jennel Jaquays was amazing.
My brother in Tiamat, there has has been entire books on being a foodie in D&D. Volo even included fucking recipes in his travel guides. Like, we know more about the food and drinking culture of Faerun than we know about their military tactics.
as someone who is into Forgotten Realms for years does this guy remembers that poster child for DnD since 90s is an elf guy outcasted from his society who also deals with rасіsm? Like Drizzt IS marginalized person
Yeah because Edd Greenwood sent huge ass stacks of typed up lore to TSR back in the day the size of manifestos! I'm not even disagreeing with your point I just love that tidbit about the man, he's a fucking lore machine!
Hold up dinosaur racing is a issue? Who doesn't want that? The idea that your mounted combat fighter could get a fckn velociraptor to ride? Sounds metal
That's my exact thought! Like, isn't there anything more manly than riding a dinosaur? And then racing with other dinosaurs in order to see who is a better dino rider? But this dude apparently thinks that onky manly thing in dnd is murder and rape Mostly murder
@piotrwisniewski70 not to mention just how anti fun it sounds. There's so many cool stories that could come from a race or build up to one. He probably enjoys himself some racing himself. Dude looks the Nascar and beer sort. But guess riding dinos to impress the tiamat worshipping princess and such is to cool for him. Why have the party go to a cool tournament with Dino races and baking (which results likely in cool buff providing snacks or ways to f with an enemy later). Just do murder bad king plot #5 with basic dungeon #36
@@drew6145 yeah! I mean, classical "go clean that dungeon" is cool, but for a one shot off session Main point of DND fun is that you can do everything you want. Wanna be an airship pirate captain? Or maybe a dragon rider? Dino chasing? Or maybe a dwarf that weaponized cooking? DND is here for you! But people like him (who probably never played DND) will see a picture of a dwarf baking bread and think that "this isn't DND like" (I've seen comments like that about that one picture of dwarfs baking bread with mittens)
34:00 "too lazy and stupid to do it on their own"? You wanna talk about lazy and stupid, the Roman empire was reliant on a massive slave labor population-- for every two people there was one slave-- plus most people had lead poisoning and cholera
Christian were lazy and relied of Greco-Roman culture and paganism to do all the heavy lifting 😅 they still don’t have culture all these millennia later 🤭
I'm sorry, but if you can utter the phrase "dinosaur racing" as if it's a bad and infantile thing, while perpetually chugging off the sword and sorcery pastiche as the only correct way to play DnD, your brain is damaged.
Him saying the pastel colors and cooking competitions tells me exactly which book he's talking about. Journey Through the radiant citadel, a book entirely based on other cultures and folklores of non European fantasy. The first level adventure is a really cool Thai street market setting with two bickering food vendors.
"Warriors have traditionally been men. That's just a fact." Not the case in many ancient cultures across the world, but okay, you're allowed to be wrong. There's a culture in the pacific islands in which men were the child rearers and *only* women did hunting and fighting, but I can't remember the name. I always think about it when men like him open their mouths.
It’s also widely accepted by anthropologists that ancient women hunted too. (And of course both men and women gathered- gathering made up MOST survival resources.)
Not just that, but how is he measuring that metric? Is he collecting the entire body mass of living warriors at any given point in time and measuring which percentage happens to be male? Cuz if so, that kind of defies the very definition of "traditional." Traditional to whom? Why does what is traditional in one part of the world more important that what is traditional elsewhere? The whole exercise is pointless. He'd be much better off saying something like, "Warriors in Judeo-Christian Western cultures have traditionally been male." That would serve his other (racial) purposes as well.
@@Bonaboo Mhm! And there was that study that found that ancient women were JACKED, because that's what happens when you grind grain with a stone all day. And the only comparable modern women athletes are rowers
@@blackpajamas6600 Yeah, but if he gets to specific he can't be broad with his assertions. He has to make it seem like the whole world had only male warriors, because those are the only one he knows about
@puckerings That doesn't mean they're not better for their workers. It just means you have to force the matter. Not surprising, given as they're a large corporation.
Diversity and Dragon also hate Pathfinder since it's diverse. He also hated Dungeon Crawl Classic since they use neutral pronoun for their core rulebook. He also hate Free League because they used safety tool for TTRPG. Also those comment are true, he made a list of enemies compagnie.
So much of the stuff he's complaining about has been around for decades: there's a reason why the term "Murderhobo" has been around for so long. Players eventually get tired of it and want to do more with their character than just clean out dungeons.
So, in a game that's built to be able to create your own characters and wander a fantasy world, you should only have white human dudes adventuring through it? How does he walk around or interact with the physical world being so fragile
Yeah I think that art is super cool. I mean is he trying to make a point about the clothes? If you live in a certain type of climate, it makes sense that you'd end up developing certain types of clothes, like wide-brimmed hats to shield from the sun, or a piece of cloth that drapes over you to protect from the sun and sand while being breezy like a poncho.
@@JackgarPrime hell, you can't even argue about clothes here Do these orcs wear Mexican clothes? Only if you close your both eyes, that hat isn't a sombrero, just a normal hat Poncho? Everyone in desert would wear it (if you watched any wild west movie then chances are that cowboy hero wears poncho) They give Mexican vibe, but that's only because we think of Mexicans when we see desert and wide hats, they don't seem to have to do anything with Mexicans
With that said, i do agree that wild west dnd is a great idea. Imagine clashing classic fantasy stuff (dragons, magic and so on) with steampunk wild west (trains, magic guns/steam crossbows [steambows]) You could have heroes trying to fight a big clan of orcish desperados/banditos who are rulling the town Or have it the other way, and players could help native orc bandits in defeating expanding corporations Damn, DND wild west sounds sick
Okay, let me try to farm some engagement. I started my TTRPG card shop stuff in 95 and in Texas. It was _very_ heavily skewed to minorities and triply so for queer people and not lib but Leftist in a red state. I wonder if his weird "My experience is pure MAGA guys!" is geographic. Because from Lafayette LA and Houston TX 95 - 10, it was people like Jake, Suris, or Jeff Holiday that dominated the shops.
Okay... I'm from the 90s, I've played since 96, I hate to stoop to this trope but... this guy is JUST closeted. He wants more men, he was lots and lots of overly designed men. And I can say this, because the first thing he made me think of is an artist named Anhes, he is a master of vaguely fantasy furry men with impressive design and coloring techniques. His stuff is just gay. Like, it is gay pinups for as far as the eye can see. When they're wearing clothes, it's gay pinups that could probably fit into a D&D books somewhere. I can literally only remember seeing him draw a woman in a full dress and at angles to give no real shapeliness. Or he would prefer a Jugg4 type, he also does explicitly fantasy art with musclegutted lion men who look properly sword and sorcery. It's also very gay, but he does do women on regular occasions. I am a bi furry and I game, this barely makes an impact. I don't care about all the boring human and humanesque images. I'm here for the anthros, and there aren't many of those. So really my only concern is that the mechanics are intuitive, streamlined, and functional, and that the game is properly balanced. I and others at the table will provide everything else. (Heh, I've been experimenting with making a Tabaxi cleric who is openly based on the style of Anhes, just so you have this muscular cat man in flowy robes giving blessings and mercy.)
I’ve thought about making a fighter who is a horse man, i based him on twelfth century scottish warriors with tunics and chain mail, no kilts though, they weren’t worn until the 17th century
Dude really pulled a Gary Gygax. “I don’t know why girls don’t want to play at my table” I don’t know dude probably because you keep asking them to roll on the “seamstress’s union” table and explaining why the paladin has to burn witches because it’s what people did in the dark ages which totally applies to a fantasy game.
the way this guy denounces dinosaur racing as if that isn't one of the most testosterone filled ideas of all time? like I thought it was a "men thing" to think dinosaurs are awesome, shows what i know i guess
this is insane. there have always been women included in dnd artwork. i played back in the eighties and i love that women now play and love this game. is it too much to hope for that he doesnt have children?
P.P.P.S. That woman in furr in 8:11 is Belit, also known as She-devil or Tigres... And, jup she is Conans girfrend, but still, she is the Pirate Captain not him...
The western style Orcs is probably just a regional thing, those are just the Orcs from Anarauch or something Orcs that live in more Celtic or Nordic styled regions of Faerun are probably more Tolkien-style And on what you said about not liking the word Orc - I agree! In The Elder Scrolls they’re called Orsimer, I like that term a lot more
Rightoids trying to stir up drama in TTRPGs is always so funny to me because over 90% of the content is player-created and optional, so they can't use the same arguments for TV shows, games, books and movies. It just becomes abundantly clear that they have an issue with minorities.
“I don’t have enough enough imagination to do what players who aren’t straight cis white dudes have been doing for decades and making making characters who are like what they want to see and aren’t pictured just liked myself. I can only imagine myself being exactly like what is the drawing, I can’t be a white guy fighter if the fighter isn’t a white guy”. What a clown.
This is at least a partial attempt at rage-baiting. I imagine some part of him does believe what he's saying, but a lot of this is so stupid that the idea that it's intentional is hard to swallow. Demonstrable and silly gate-keeping, all of it - subtract all of the fluff and explanation he offers, and what he's saying is "D&D was mostly us white males playing in the beginning and I don't like that it's changed." Who argues from such a limited, almost childish perspective? It's possible he's proud to be this...way, but he's also choosing his words carefully. He knows he's offending some people. And just hoping they reach out and say something, because then he can use that in another video and on and on and on. Just play the game your way, dude. JFC. Edit: I would be REALLY interested to see how he treats drow players or NPCs in his private campaigns. Now that I think about it, I've known one or two people who treated even friendly drow characters like crap while they're "in character." Now that I've made the connection.... yeah, I can see those guys being racist.
Anyone who's played D&D for any length of time knows this argument. It comes up every few years - I remember the exact same whining when 3E came out because it dared to have some non-white people in prominent positions, I for sure heard it about 4E just because the grognards hate that edition so much, and now this dude.
It is hilarious to me that he mentions Wayne Reynolds when he is off making tons of pathfinder 2nd edition art, the most aggressively rainbow queer woke d20 ttrpg on the market hahaha
I'm an old gamer god I can't believe there are still people like this .there were people who complained and said the same thing in 3rd ed. How small there fantasy is. Has he never read a Harper book
This guy’s definitely the type who’d say: “The only wizard that should be in DnD should be the one of the Ku Klux Klan variety.” I always find it hilarious that they have worlds with many kinds of fantasy races with subspecies and cultures, but draws the line at humans of different ethnicities and genders.
I love the "it has not turned out so well for disney", "Go woke go broke" and so on argument. The worth of Disney has increased from 165.25 bilion 2023 to 176.10 bilion 2024. That's an increase of almost 11 bilion dollars and the year is not over, how is that "not turning out so well" or "not working".
16:08 “Seattle companies lie and say that women were _"somehow"_ _"excluded."_ ” Gee, I wonder why that might be, man who just finished a long boring rant about why women were never part of D&D and that they shouldn't be part of it. HMMMMM, WHAT A MYSTERY.
RE Howard sexualization aka "Conan" sexualization is different IMO bc even the men are wearing like zero clothing and are hyper sexualized. Its kind of a theme of Hyboria that everything is super over the top and ridiculous
He keeps (incorrectly) claiming that d&d used to be one specific way but also fails to realize that the game is more popular than it’s ever been and that’s partially because of a RU-vid show composed half by women.
@@gamewatch6861 The priestesses of Lolth might have their way with him first and we can't even mention what that looks like or we'll get banned from YT.
It's like they don't know we've been the backbone of every nerd/geek community since forever. Just cause the art is only now playing catch up to the demographics of the actual community doesn't mean we haven't always been here christ on a cracker
Isn't the whole premise of DND is you control your own game and do what you want? So he's offended people are restricted to having to play his version ?
