Here we go again! Baseless attacks on Gary Gygax! 

In high school, I was never able to get goblins or orcs to play D&D because of Gary’s racism.

If D&D is so bad then they should stop playing it.

The other day someone told me JRR Tolkien approved of slavery.....I'm like, have you not heard of his most famous work, where the guy enslaving everyone is THE BAD GUY?

Gary Gygax: _"These are themes that are bad and heroes should work to overcome."_ Modern Social Justice Whiners: _"He put those themes in because he was a bad person."_

Luke Gygax should be suing this person on Twitter, this is absolutely vile and defaming. Holy hell!!

Evil is an important element of roleplaying... as the force to be opposed. I reimagined DarkSun into a setting for ShadowDark called ShadowSun. It has been popular because people want to fight back against the Sorcerer-Kings.

Remember when the Secret Service raided Steve Jackson Games over GURPs Cyberpunk? Good times.

People have an inability to seperate their real world morality from a in game morality. They also have a problem seperating modern morality and morality throughout history. Let us remember this is a ROLE playing game which means you take on the ROLE of someone you are not which includes their world view and morality. I feel this all stems from a severe lack of imagination and an inability to understand other perspectives.

This was a fun video. I think we had too much scotch. 🤘🏻😅

Lets be honest, ANY form of standards set these types of people off.

So disgusting isn't it? We'd have nothing without Gary! ⚔️

If anyone says they would kill baby Hitler, I question their humanity tbh. A little, innocent, baby, completely helpless in front of you. Sure, he'll grow into a being of evil, but you need to be pretty detached to murder a baby.

Same stupid judgement happened to Earnie too, when he mentioned historical fact

There was a lot of use of 'Columbian Marching Powder' and 'The Devil's Lettuce' by TSR execs, even more so when Gary went out to the west coast and hobnobbed with Hollywood people. So in a way they were part of a cocaine smuggling ring, the user end, but the hobby at large had nothing to do with it.

It’s not baseless. Somewhere in a demi plane where Cyric’s lost sanity resides someone said something that might be considered racist.

The last thing a game developer would want is to exclude a portion of the population. The more people that purchase the game equals a win for the game developer.

No I would not kill baby Hitler because who knows what would happen to the flow of time with him removed and as to killing baby goblins that would all depend on the alignment of my character and the situation under which the goblins were found. Are the goblins close to a town, they have to go, are they out in the wilds leave them be, the goblins that fled will return for them later.

While I probably would not like D&D the exact way gygax pictured it, it's no reason to make up lies about him!

Hello both. That explain why i like to be a Paladin in every game! No, i will not kill a baby Hitler...a baby Goblin, my be, dpends of the role play and background of the adventure. Getting off topic a little. Haven't you thought about making an exclusive video to taste and recommend liquors?

Nobody says killing Quasits is a bad thing. But those are just baby demons.If Goblins are just another mortal race in your setting with nothing but a penchant for the more chaotic side of life. Then killing an infant of theirs may be lawful, in the strictest sense of the term. But I don't think any argument could be made that is good. If they are the equivalent of a quasit, that is another story entirely. It's all aqueous, and thus this debate is silly, it's always been silly. Gygax's goblins are quasits not baby tribals. Honestly during the 80s and 90s everyone and their brother was trying to censor and demean Gygax and roleplaying, do people honestly think if he were a card carrying member of the "windmill boys" the moral majority wouldn't have weaponized that against the man!? You know who else was on the FBI's watchlist? Such evil characters as Martin King Jr. And various homosexual activists, are we supposed to hate them too? Stupid crap.

_"Would you kill baby Hitler?"_ That's the wrong question, and incredibly short-sighted. The architect of the Second World War, and everything that went with it, wasn't Hitler at all. He was just the man who happened to be in charge at the time, and his party existed long before he got there (54 other members). In fact, the only reason he joined at all, was because he was sent by the German army to spy on them. His becoming their leader was just one of history's accidents, and there is every possibility that there would have been the exact same outcome, with another at the helm.

18:12 "He had no plyhedral dice in his cabin in the woods." I'm sad we weren't able to get Ted into the hobby. Maybe if he had an outlet, he would have mellowed out a bit and not turned to terrorism. Maybe he would have found joy in playing and DMing and used the table as a means to spread his messafe without being tempted to use violence to draw attention to his writings.

Why is it that so many people want to not have the absolute Evil. This removal of absolute Evils has been happening for a while now and not just in games. The Marvel movies have been doing it too as well as other forms of entertainment. I honestly think it is kind of stupid trying to make all these bad guys relatable.

Chill dear. It is an IMAGINARY world. All the humans can be albinos or lefthanded night-creatures if you so prefer. If it is what you want do it in your game :)

If they dislike Gygax that much, why do these people play DnD? I prefer other systems in general, but man, people just want to be right. Just ignore, never engage with them. Just laugh at them 😅

just going to keep playing my elf game with anyone who sits at the table. Still using my 3lbbs and they work just fine alongside all my home brew rules and setting. That person in your video is probably not even a gamer. Griff

The original d&d was a challenging strategic game with the ever present risk of your character getting killed making it fun and rewarding, while the newer editions are the children's programming version. It's normal for kids to put down the adult programming that their children's show is based on.

Garys fine ... Theyve been r*ping the corpse of HP Lovecraft for decades even while they cry out in pain as they seek to profit of his IP

Killing baby Hitler is not an easy question to answer... Could his life course be changed by changing something in his upbringing? Something as simple as giving him a pack of crayons at age 3 could completely change his life, so killing him as a baby would be harsh without trying something else first - however, who is to say that there wasn't something 100 times worse that would take his place - or - what if someone 100 times worse was already in the original timeline, someone killed him, and Hitler took has place? Meaning Hitler was the lesser of two evils? Time Travel is funky to think about.

Was about to buy the NEW books, but something looked off, i maximized the pic and saw the full female party on the cover, dei boxes checked. Did some research and bought a prior gen. Just running a fun game for kids, dont need todays nonsense sneaking into it. The new version of DND will die or be a lgbtq only version. They let those goblins in, now they can deal with pleasing them on every single level. They have however made it pretty easy for us to distance ourselves from these people. Dont play the new version ever.

Irked by the beginning, as a Scot I have to say AM is not a serious whisky, as indicated by the word ‘scotch’. Get yourself some proper Scottish whisky, there are tons to choose from but go for the single malts if possible :)

The modern day gaming community Wokeness inspired me to no longer interact with it on a large scale. I only deal with individual gamers after I vet them.

At the end of Deadpool 2, Deadpool couldn't kill baby Hitler (so he let Cable do it)

Ugh It’s a fantasy game

Any who trash Gygax and crew have no right to enjoy the game they crafted... go play vampire the masquerade and live out your trans twilight fanfic Make D&D Great Again reject #WotC

I don’t have an issue with past monster races being portrayed as good now. My stance is that as long as an evil race isn’t meant to represent a real-world race, it’s fine if they are depicted as evil. Personally, I find that approach boring, so in the few games I've played, we generally avoid linking races to alignments and just do whatever we like. Plus, I think orcs are cool, so I’m biased. Typically, orcs aren’t evil and don’t suffer from a penalty to Intelligence.What really frustrates me is the reason for the change. If someone approaches me respectfully and says, "Hey, I feel this way about the concept of an evil race," even if I disagree, I might consider their perspective. But if they simply tell me, "You're a racist, shut up," without offering an explanation, I’m less inclined to care. It feels like the change is driven more by politics than by a desire for more interesting lore. Even when I agree with someone, especially those on the left, I often find their proposed solutions to be ineffective or just grandstanding. I rather have a system with Chaotic and Lawful alignments, which could accommodate both good and evil characters. Chaotic characters might be unpredictable or driven by strong emotions, which could manifest as an orc who, despite being banned from a town, feels a deep sense of honor and chooses to save it. Or or, a stereotypical orc might be evil and violent, consumed by rage. Lawful characters would be more controlled but potentially stubborn, representing a choice between innovation and change versus order and stagnation. WOTC could have just adopted that system instead of the choice they made. As a Black man, I understand the importance of addressing past issues, but I don’t think we should erase art or history just because it might be uncomfortable. Sometimes, these elements serve as important lessons, and we shouldn’t become so progressive that we’re afraid to discuss or acknowledge them. As for if the creator is or is not racist or maybe just had some bad views here & there idk I don't have enough knowledge do agree or disagree ......and who cares he is not the face of it anymore even before he passed so I do not see the problem, and even if he was there are systems EXACTLY LIKE & SOME EVEN BETTER THAN D&D but just do not have the elements certain people might not like or find offensive ect.

Yes

Using personality studies we have now (M-B-K etc.), people who are SJ's will enjoy a concrete alignment system. While NP's will prefer an flexible alignment system. And so the arguments around alignment will fall into these personality camps, generally speaking.

Give me AD&D / 2nd ED...forever!

How about Baby Netanyahu?

1m of waffling, bye

Weird - this is the second time my comment has disappeared from one of your videos... Not worth trying to remember it all to repost it, just a heads-up that there might be some shenanigans at work. Oh well, I'll try again next video!

You don't have to go after baby H. He was in a military hospital in 1918 during WWI. A quick syringe of air or OD of meds, hell even a pillow over the front will make this a quick and easy decision. Then you'll have Command & Conqure.

I think there are reasonable critiques about racism in some of the material D&D was inspired by. Tolkien had a lot of weird lineage stuff going on and southern dark skinned humans were the only variety to join Sauron's cause. But Greyhawk is not Middle Earth. The main criticism you could make about D&D and racism is this idea that you automaticaally kill orcs and goblins even down to their newborns solely because they're orcs and goblins. Even though it's possible to communicate with them. The word for that is genocide. There's nothing connecting it to real world minorities but I think a reasonable person could understand why a person who has dealt with racism directed at them might not find that a desirable component of a relaxing game with friends. And I think that's about it, really. No one is served by overstating any of this, imagining that a single person is responsible, or creating imaginary connections with real racist groups or movements. Even Tolkien was far more concerned with praising one group than bashing another. If you look hard enough you can find explicitly white supremacist roleplaying games but they are incredibly rare and unpopular. Overall our hobby does not seem to have much tolerance for open racism.

D&D is dead. Now, the challenge is to make your own. Clock is ticking, hoss. *CHA'ALT*

Im not clicking that link and you shouldnt send them traffic

Can we just agree that creature races are actually separate races and could be vile and dangerous through instinct or cultural nature like worshipping of evil deities if written this way. They are not as humans describe racism amongst ourselves which is more a bigotry towards ethnicity and appearance. The creatures of Cthulhu are innately evil and players would be hard pressed to think of them as misunderstood and lovable or kind. “My Shoggoth produces tentacles to hug you loving in friendship as you go inexplicably insane. As your madness persists, he realizes he must, put you down out of respect of your very brief friendship and devour you out of respect.” See, he’s not a monster, he’s just made that way. What this person explains actually sounds more like H.P. Lovecraft but even Lovecraft writing can be separated from the writer.