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Minority Representation in D&D PHB isn't for Minorities

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There are more (imaginary) women of color than ever, in leftist D&D art; but it doesn't really have anything to do with real women of color.
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@chrislambert2777 Месяц назад

"Your life is a hot mess and you're going to wizard prom" was brilliant.

@dungeondumbo Месяц назад

😂 made me laugh that line.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

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@diegoborges3716 Месяц назад

The female elf of color from the cover of the new PHB was supposed to be Queen Yolande of Celene, who is described as a GRAY elf. Replacement is not inclusion.

@Olothur Месяц назад

Perchance, the artist is just neurodiverse and dyslexic, and choose to depict this character because they thought she is GAY elf!

@cberg2731 Месяц назад

Grey elves are not black

@LeeroyPorkins Месяц назад

Meatball representation is for Meatball

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

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@juancholo7502 Месяц назад

Meatball is playing as Godzilla in a LARP, Meatball just forgot to let 'Pundit know. 😁

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

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@tabletopgamingwithwolfphototec Месяц назад

📝 19:40 they are definitely modeling it on *triple A* pre-order model. The funny joke is that video gamers are sick of the obscene number pre-order tiers , microtransactions & wokism. The Triple A video game industry is dying because sales are falling. So, the Wizard of the Coast & hasbro are literally adopting strategies from the triple A video gaming industry , that is killing the triple A gaming industry.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

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@blacrow7 Месяц назад

Metalheads like myself plays D&D as well, but we play it like Conan the Barbarian. What is best in life? Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women.

@steambub Месяц назад

You would like ACKS

@finnfish5418 Месяц назад

sounds like a manowar track lol

@steambub Месяц назад

@@finnfish5418 You Adventure then Conquer a Kingdom in a wonderful System.

@blacrow7 Месяц назад

@@finnfish5418 You killed your first man at 13, Killer instinct, Animal supreme, By 16 you had learned to fight The way of the warrior, you took it as your right.

@andynonimuss6298 Месяц назад

YES! It's time to get back to BARBARIANS, BEASTS, BABES, and BLOOD!

@farspeakerdm90 Месяц назад

Their new books will be in bargain stores come January for a bucket of spit.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

Quite possibly.

@kurainoneko2 Месяц назад

half a bucket (bucket not included) take it or leave ir

@steelmongoose4956 Месяц назад

Wait-Hillary Clinton is represented as a Paladin? Apparently Moloch is core in the new edition.

@underfire987 Месяц назад

Haha very astute observation!

@joelkurowski7129 Месяц назад

IT'S HER TURN (...to make an attack)

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

yup.

@whangbar Месяц назад

"Pantsuit Paladin" FTW!

@steelmongoose4956 Месяц назад

@@underfire987 But it’s weird to see a paladin use charisma as a dump stat. They must have reworked some game mechanics.

@RichardSekmistrz Месяц назад

I need these books so I can virtue signal to my friends that I am DEIa.

@Richforce1 Месяц назад

Geek culture is also a big thing in East Asia, but it's fairly different than western geek culture. There's a reason most of their video game rpgs end with using the power of friendship to kill God or a godlike being.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

Good point.

@user-cs4su3ng9l Месяц назад

What is the reason?

@Richforce1 Месяц назад

@@user-cs4su3ng9l Symbolism of the community triumphing over an invasive western system that promised everything but left them vulnerable to collapse (the downturn of the 90's)

@TheGenericavatar Месяц назад

$80 /core book? O_O!!! The Tomb of Horrors was never the same since they passed the ADA (Adventurers with Disabilities Act) and forced Acerak to make his tomb ADA compliant. :D

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

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@golgothika Месяц назад

I go back to the late 70's playing D&D in High School. I DMed a campaign while in the Army in Germany. I will not support any of this woke campaign. Kudos for speaking out. This too will pass.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

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@golgothika Месяц назад

@@RPGPundit Definitely!

@brianinthepark5429 Месяц назад

Midwits meddleing with the formula. Oh man.About sums up so many things in 2024. ~Brian

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

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@FrostSpike Месяц назад

Just to give a reference point on the costs of the new D&D 2024 books - the three 3.5e edition books (PHB, MM, DMG), published in June 2003, were USD 29.95 each. I'm using those as a baseline as, prior to those full-colour, glossy print tomes, the books are mainly black and white with a bit of highlight colour or, in the case of 3e (2000) were underpriced as a loss-leader to drive adoption. So, today (June 2024), based on CPI changes, that 29.95 would be around USD 51.12, or USD 153.36 for the set.

@ericaltmann5711 Месяц назад

Oi! You forgot about us upside down folk here down under mate! And our brothers across the Tasman (the kiwis). We might might only be small in number but we do exist you know. There are more Aussies than most of the Scandinavian countries put together. There are 26 million of us. Well, most of that number are Aussies. Don’t be a typical yank mate, and forget about you best allies.You are way better than that. Love your vids mate, been a long time subscriber. Keep up the good work.

@alderaancrumbs6260 Месяц назад

Who’s forgotten about our Australian friends? A LOT of Yanks love and support you guys. 🇺🇸🤜🏻🤛🏻🇦🇺

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

Yes, Australian gamers too. At least the ones that don't start their sessions by stating that they are "playing on aboriginal land".

@ericaltmann5711 Месяц назад

@@RPGPundit never seen that, must be a new thing. One of my best friends was half aboriginal, he was just a gamer like the rest of us, he was in my primary school gaming group in our small country town in the early 80s.

@ericaltmann5711 Месяц назад

@@alderaancrumbs6260 no worries. Just teasing a little actually.

@whiskeyhound Месяц назад

I paid about 180 aud for the 5e books, sounds like I'd need to pay 300 for 5.5 if I felt like burning money for a minor improvement to some of the 5e mechanics buried within a mountain of garbage.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

Absolutely don't do it!

@whiskeyhound Месяц назад

@@RPGPundit Don't worry about it, even if they priced them cheaper for Australia, wotc has done a brilliant job convincing me to avoid their books in the last 5-6 years.

@House_Of_Cards_ Месяц назад

Let's put it this way Kasimir. Not even for free I will ever get their shit in my house. Call me crazy, but I feel like I would be inviting the devil himself to our life. That 5E crap is soaked with woke hate.We have so much fun with OSR games and so much wonderful board games to explore as well.

@underfire987 Месяц назад

That's because the left is and has always been Demonic.

@roygoodman1077 Месяц назад

I wonder how much Mike Pondsmith pisses them off.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

Probably quite a lot. But they're not allowed to show it.

@screenmonkey Месяц назад

They tried to shame him about cultural appropriation, then he showed up and said hi, and yeah that's the point.

@pluckstrummer 29 дней назад

Black gamers weren't waiting for white-run companies to draw pictures of us before we started playing RPGs. Nor did we think that giving orcs an intelligence penalty has anything to do with us; we recognize ourselves as humans. Ironically, the variant human rules of later editions were inching closer to racial classification. Give me rules- light OSR any day. I'll play a character that makes sense in-world, and play Sims if I need an avatar of myself.

@RPGPundit 29 дней назад

Well said! Spread the word, share the video!

@Richforce1 Месяц назад

I prefer the Aristotelian view of a heroics, that a hero is a paragon of virtue while a villain is a paragon of vice.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

That is not, however, the classical model, which is much more prevalent throughout ancient cultures.

@Richforce1 Месяц назад

@@RPGPundit I know, I just think society in general needs Aristotelian heroes more right now.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

@@Richforce1 you're not wrong, but mainly it needs both. There is instead an active campaign in our culture to destroy both.

@user-cs4su3ng9l Месяц назад

@@RPGPunditwhy is this the case?

@gamervideos11 Месяц назад

D&D is total shite now. I say,..hard pass.

@underfire987 Месяц назад

Yep wotc dnd isn't real dnd anyhow.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

check out Baptism of Fire!

@dungeondumbo Месяц назад

Yeah it’s junk.

@ericaltmann5711 Месяц назад

Copy that. No a chance I’m wasting my money on this recycled trash.

@Norvik_-ug3ge Месяц назад

I love Meatball, but more importantly it's clear Meatball loves you. Awww ❤

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

Yes she does!

@crankysmurf Месяц назад

I'm an ethnic Chinese guy who has lived most of my life in Canada and I started playing D&D in the early 1980s. I never cared about race (as in human ethnicities) because most of us played non-humans. However, I was excited when the Oriental Adventures came out because it was influenced by Chinese and Japanese cultures (but most pop culture). Now the wokeists say OA is racist because it misrepresents Asians - for fuck sake, I was lucky to have "presentation" in D&D and now they're saying it's racist (it wasn't), which means we'll never get an updated Oriental Adventures because people like Daniel Kwan says so. Oh, "oriental" isn't a racist term - I referred to myself as "oriental" from the 70s to the 90s and I hate referring myself as "Asian" since I don't live in Asia.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

Kwan went on to make an adventure for WotC's candlekeep book that turned out to be based on Kung Fu movies, with as little or less authenticity than Oriental Adventures had.

@crankysmurf Месяц назад

@@RPGPundit He had the balls to say monks are racist to Chinese when monks since 1E have been based on the Chinese wuxia genre (think "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). The D&D monk is first and foremost, like all of the other D&D classes, based on fantasy pop culture, not real cultures.

@mrcatchingup Месяц назад

Funny how the point of an RPG is often to let anybody become anything they want if they train hard enough to develop the needed experience to prove themself.

@crankysmurf Месяц назад

@@007ohboy As a Chinese-Canadian kid who grew up playing D&D since the early 1980s I never found 1E Oriental Adventures offensive. I was actually glad that I finally got representation in a very Euro-centric game like D&D. Check out RU-vidr Don't Stop Thinking's video series of updating Kara-Tur to include more cultures inspired by real East and South-Eastern Asian cultures.

@Kill2Hard101 Месяц назад

Anyone who buys the new D&D books are literally funding their enemies!

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

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@gzombie1 Месяц назад

If the world was flat cats would of knocked everything over the edge by now.

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@Diabolik771 Месяц назад

I laughed at the art in these. Sings "Fat gay dwarves, Mexican Orcs, Negroi-oid elves..."

@Jeff-cn9up Месяц назад

I've seen WOTC's new art. Repulsive. All of it. Both the subjects and the execution. We've fallen so far from Erol Otis, Bill Wilingham, Larry Elmore, Jeff Easley, and Wayne Reynolds, to name but a few. 4th edition sucked as a D&D rules set, but William O’Connor's art was still excellent. Most of 5th Edition's art choices have been terrible, and consistently getting worse.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

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@TKDB13 Месяц назад

Not only is the "representation" in the new books unlikely to attract more black people to try out D&D, if anything it's likely to do the opposite. The biggest obstacle keeping black people away from TTRPGs is the attitude within *black* culture that shames and discourages people within that community for "acting white", a label that certainly includes TTRPGs (among other things such as academic achievement and getting along with corporate workplace culture). The new art we've seen for the upcoming PHB just replaces the classic heroic fantasy aesthetic with a weird fantasy version of hipster culture...which I'm sure doesn't make it look any less "white".

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

Very good point!

@kuality1416 Месяц назад

Im predicting New DnD will have 50% sales in 2025 probably around April.

@brianinthepark5429 Месяц назад

Rpg's are popular in Japan. Call of c. is really big there I've heard. ~Brian

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

Yes, but Japan is a weird exception.

@screenmonkey Месяц назад

Call of Cthulhu is huge in Korea as well, I ran for a group of Koreans. My Korean copy of Call of Cthulu was easier to get than D&D,. Unfortunately Covid killed my campaign.

@user-xe9sg1wg7t Месяц назад

In a recent conversatiom about this, I asked a friend if, perhaps, this overtly inclusive slant that One D&D art is taking may be meant to trigger some kind of social backlash in the D&D community against such inclusion, in favor of a sharp return to a more traditional, less-inclusive, non-PC, arguably anti-leftist grognardia. It sounds a little conspiratorial, but whether it's meant that way, merely getting that reaction and looking that way would amount to almost the same, so I suppose we'll see.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

I doubt this theory. I think that the people currently in charge of the design of D&D are very much true believers in DEI. However, what you're suggesting might become truth anyways, if the sales of OneDnD end up being very poor.

@DoctorTopper Месяц назад

What about the art in the new 8th Castles & Crusades PHB? It seems to me they replaced the beautiful warriors and knights with ✝emblems with rEpReSeNtAtIoN. Troll Lord Games has always been a great company supporting veterans and stuff, and I am afraid that might change if they start bending the knee.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

I wasn't aware of that.

@DoctorTopper Месяц назад

@@RPGPundit well I hope it's just me being hyper sensitive after so many other betrayals. But let me know your honest assessment when you can. The previous 7th pdf is free on their website and the current 10th is also free on drivethru via a link my friend got in email and it worked for both of us somehow.

@miscprojects9662 Месяц назад

Wondering if the back stories are the problem. Instead a knight that was exiled because she was gay maybe it just needs to go back to your village was attacked by orcs and you managed to escape…..

@Russell.Harquail Месяц назад

My preferred edition has always been B/X and I own every edition from Original to 5th. This is definitely where I hop off the ride. I was not the target audience beyond a couple of nostalgic callback art crumbs that don’t quite hit the mark. Liked the modularity of 5th after the crazy 4e system lock, but this 5.5 situation is a bloated beast. 4 Races, 4 Classes for my D&D and emergent stories, not railroads and certainly no VTTs.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

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@Jimalcoatl Месяц назад

I'm morbidly curious as to what is in the new books, but not curious enough to pay money for them. I'm sure they'll hit the high seas soon enough and I can check them out for a laugh/cringe.

@bobreaper2142 Месяц назад

Right on again brother

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

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@crapphone7744 Месяц назад

Okay I promised myself I wasn't going to watch another video about the latest D&D nonsense, but you put Meatball in. Now I have to watch this.Meatball Army!!!

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

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@crankysmurf Месяц назад

BTW, Kyle Brinks is no longer at WotC. His Linkedin profile says that he left in May (he either quit or was laid off/fired).

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

Yes I know, I just now put out a video about it, and talking about the person who is his apparent replacement.

@rpgarchaeology6049 Месяц назад

Great video. Is it wrong that as I watched, I pretended it was Meatball talking since he was in the shot the whole time?

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

Meatball is a she, but I suppose that's ok.

@rpgarchaeology6049 Месяц назад

@@RPGPundit Ah my apologies to Meatball!

@Xoguran Месяц назад

I did purchase Sword and Caravan but find out that you cannot roll Byzantine characters! Which splatbooks do have Byzantine options?

@destroso Месяц назад

Home brew it!

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

I haven't done a sourcebook for Byzantines. At least not yet.

@destroso Месяц назад

@@RPGPundit one for the Pundit Files?

@Xoguran Месяц назад

@@RPGPundit Don't deny us the purples of Rome any longer then!

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

Honestly I'm more likely to someday do an "Imperial Rome" setting than a Byzantium setting.

@9trevor9 Месяц назад

You just inspired me to purchase a used Kar - Tur boxed set!

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

Well, that's better than 5e. Though I'd suggest if you want oriental adventuring you should check out Sword & Caravan.

@SilverSeraph100 Месяц назад

Talking about Official DnD is worth about as much as talking about Star Wars nowadays. They aren't even worth the oxygen or neural impulses required for the task. Much rather spend time and energy on something else.

@worldbigfootcentral3933 Месяц назад

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks.." ~ Shakespeare. "The more they virtue signal, the more they signal they have no actual virtue". ~ Me.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

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@jjhh320 Месяц назад

Agree with the video but idk about the geeks being an anglo western thing. Us asians have a lot of us fucking nerds too

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

True, but manifests in different cultural forms. Though many have crossed over with western geek culture in happy interchange. Not so ttrpgs, though, where other than in Japan they're barely played anywhere in Asia (not counting Australia or NZ).

@mod5000 Месяц назад

Good video! By the by, do you have a suggestion for resources related to the Victorian era or the Industrial Revolution? I want to run a campaign during that time, perhaps with steampunk elements, but I'm not sure where to start.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

Not so sure about the Steampunk, unless you want to go really old-school with Space:1889, but if you want seedy adventures in the late Victorian era, check out the Red Room's "Wretched Belle Epoque".

@ryan.1990 Месяц назад

As a white person who is internally tortured daily for my accursed White Privelige, these POC-led adventures are so hecking valid! Makes me want to paint myself up and join my superiors! O, woe is me! #allyship

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

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@innocentsmith6091 Месяц назад

Latinorx don't make you feel represented?

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

No. And the whole idea of representation is stupid.

@HermieMunster Месяц назад

Takes me back to when I was a lot younger and in the group of friends there were a couple of black guys. Tried to get them to play D&D a couple of times but they weren’t interested ‘in that nerdy 💩.’

@dungeondumbo Месяц назад

Holy price point Batman! They really know how to look after the fans 😂 my group have had enough of WOTC and their petty politics so they won’t be getting any money from us. Btw…I saw that the weasels at Enworld just posted a hack job piece on Gary using the 50th Anniversary book (itself an abomination) as an excuse. Pathetic.

@solomani5959 Месяц назад

I think it's also done in an attempt to humiliate the original fans. Fortunately, we are not called grognards for nothing. Water off a ducks back.

@user-cs4su3ng9l Месяц назад

Why would they want that?

@LouisAzevedo Месяц назад

Japanese play quite a lot of RPG too. They even have several D&D inspired anime And here in french speaking Europe we have quite a bunch of local RPGs which you "must" check 😉

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

Yes, Japan is a singular exception in Asia though

@xlmncopq Месяц назад

the funny thing is that nobody cares about the art in dnd books, if you want art reference just google, its not like generic fantasy setting is just easy to look for, meanwhile games where the setting is more niche then the book having art is also a matter of helping creating a collective visual vocabulary of things to facilitate team play

@diegoborges3716 Месяц назад

I tend to disagree with that. The artwork gives the mood of the game. We see arts from Shadowdark and Mörk Borg, for example, and think: "that's gritty!". We see arts from the new D&D and think: "is that supposed to be what? San Francisco? Vila Madalena?"

@guywholikesheelies3231 Месяц назад

@@diegoborges3716but thats really only for new players. A creative DM can easily change the style and mood of any system if their players can accept it. Most of the mood really comes from the individuals imagination and what words the DM uses.

@vorpalanvil Месяц назад

Race is the progenitor of culture.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

No, it really isn't. "African Americans" who travel back to Africa will not fit in with any of the incredibly varied African cultures.

@user-cs4su3ng9l Месяц назад

Both are interconnected

@benitopulatso6637 Месяц назад

The amount of concern Meatball has is about my level of concern for the new books. My group will keep to the books we already have, or switch to Tales of the Valiant or PF2E.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

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@andrewthomas7202 Месяц назад

RPG Elite addressed the issue about why there aren’t many blacks who play rpgs and, according to his research it has everything to do with literacy.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

I doubt there is a single cause, and I think the most important is general culture.

@MogofWar Месяц назад

I predict Baptism of Fire is going to increase the number of African Christians who are getting into Tabletop RPG's, but if you really want ti break into that demographic, do a Medieval Authentic based on Charlemagne... I'm not even joking.

@francoiscolin6692 Месяц назад

And still people are going to buy it...

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

Yes, the people it was made for: mostly white bourgeois leftists. That and OCD nerds who can't stop themselves.

@rscottr Месяц назад

Eh, the D&D cartoon show is popular in Brazil. Probably more popular than it ever was in the US. And it had black woman representation.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

Sure, but it wasn't popular because of that representation. It was just popular.

@rscottr Месяц назад

@@RPGPundit I'm not saying it is the reason for the popularity, just that it can be a way in for some people. I'm also thinking of other US shows that are popular in Brazil like Everybody Hates Chris.

@crapphone7744 Месяц назад

When this stuff blows up in their face, it's just possible that the Mexican work version of the handbook will be worth as much as the God's demigods and heroes that has Cthulhu. I don't think this is going to age well.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

Hmm, possibly, but I doubt it.

@CaptainShield Месяц назад

Meatball is the star, Papa.

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@williammeek7218 Месяц назад

You find diversity in the settings .

@theodenrex5769 Месяц назад

I'm from Chile and I run a campaign with some college friends, all of us but one are ethnically white and it's precisely that one friend that plays sun elves in every campaign lol, not that it matters, but I find it funny when people talk representation in role playing games, I mean that's exactly the point you can be whatever you want, some cool drow or a dragonborn, specially if it's a high fantasy medieval setting, I don't know man WoTC it's pushing this woke agenda too much, I'd love to DM maybe another system but the thing is I would have to teach everyone else at my table.. so stuck with D&D

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

Why not play the OSR? It's all D&D-based. Anyone who is familiar with D&D, even just 5e, will be able to get used to it pretty quickly. Check out my own Lion & Dragon, or Baptism of Fire!

@theodenrex5769 Месяц назад

@@RPGPundit I will check them out maybe they'll suit my table

@Journeyman107 Месяц назад

Other systems are fun to learn and easy to teach lol I've played 4 different systems with my rather inexperienced gaming groups. But 5E is fine and Hasbro doesn't own your enjoyment of it, people still play 2E D&D which was often a little more grounded in its depiction of fantasy especially before the diverse and Star Wars like Forgotten Realms became the norm. While I sympathize with the sentiments, I tried to post a comment about how I disagree with certain aspects of the premise of this video and others. Unfortunately OP deleted every attempt I made to make the post so be aware that this part of RU-vid is a rather loud echo chamber without much actual constructive or varied discourse.

@Sylentmana Месяц назад

If it’s not TSR it’s not D&D. Play old school or not at all.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

The OSR is the real D&D now.

@guywholikesheelies3231 Месяц назад

My issue honestly isn't all the woke garbage, thats stuff I could ignore. The issue I think WotC has is that they aren't trying to get kids into D&D. $240 for 3 books is ridiculous. Its shows that they are pandering to a adult audience that are willing to spend that money on D&D. I dont buy from them because the prices are ridiculous and they are just kind of creatively empty. You release Stafinder with garbage ship mechanics that just want you to get in range of the enemy to fight them like normal.

@Richforce1 Месяц назад

Of course they aren't trying to get to kids, they're too busy with their Minecrafts Fortnites, Robloxes and Tiktoks.

@guywholikesheelies3231 Месяц назад

@@Richforce1 adults have all that too. To me it seems they are targeting their own friend groups. It's all the same age range, political leanings. Look at all D&D RU-vidrs, 90% of them are all in the same age range.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

Their core demographic are Millennials in their 30s.

@jacobwilbers9852 Месяц назад

Meatball is the secret boss😊

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

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@shinigamiauthor Месяц назад

I know 3rd gets a fair bit of hate, but 3.5 was the last edition of D&D is personally give a shit about. It was barely D&D and it definitely no longer D&D

@paulcooper6048 Месяц назад

Glad it’s as bad as we thought it would be.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

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@earlgrayman982 Месяц назад

Olde enough to have played AD&D Oriental Adventures and D&D's The Emirates of Ylaruam. Neither was particularly western in nature and were a bit fantastical (hey, its D&D) but it was fun nonetheless to trade the olde TSR Tolken tropes for something new. Same with MAR Barkers Empire of the Petal Throne which was a mix of South Asian and Mesoamerican culture thrown in a blender with a lot of 70s and 80s weirdness. Good times. Seemed a bit more authentic then despite the inaccuracies. I guess its like punk, where you can tell the real thing from the fake, even if its not following the formula.

@Norvik_-ug3ge Месяц назад

What is your favourite D&D edition(s) RPG Pundit, and why?

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

If we're talking an official edition, my favorite was the Rules Cyclopedia.

@Norvik_-ug3ge Месяц назад

@@RPGPundit Interesting. A f*ck ton of errors in that book. Weird, given it was essentially a compilation. TSR had gotten sloppy/complacent by then, I suppose. That was the edition (BECMI) I played the most, although we, like almost everyone, made up our own house rules to fix rules that were broken, such as the Deflect ability in Weapon Mastery.

@H-HWJvN 28 дней назад

We can always play OSR games. Most of OSR creators are probably part of the woke crowd but at least they are not trying to push their crap down our throsts.

@RPGPundit 28 дней назад

Only about a third or so of OSR creators are "part of the woke crowd". The rest are either based or don't show any political views.

@H-HWJvN 28 дней назад

@@RPGPundit that's good to know that. Stay based.

@RIVERSRPGChannel Месяц назад

F WotC I won’t buy their crap anymore. I have enough stuff not to need the new PC 💩 they’re offering

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

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@daruekeller Месяц назад

I bet if you ran the new text through an analyzer it's like a 4th grade reading level .

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

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@adamwelch4336 Месяц назад

Nah im going to do my own thing! 😂🎉😎🧙

@ebertwix5860 Месяц назад

At first I considered buying it just to have it, but for 80? Pass. I might get it as a gift someday somehow, but that's the only way

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

Yeah, absolutely do not buy it. Buy Baptism of Fire instead, you'll actually find useful stuff there!

@josephquesnel1737 Месяц назад

My name is Joseph and I am a completist. haha. However, I have built enough strength not to buy the One DND. WOTC has sufficiently bothered me enough. We all see through their fake homages to the origins of D & D while they crap on us in so many more other ways. Thanks RPG Pundit for helping me make my decision.. There are SOOO many other better RPG products..

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

Good! The first step was admitting you had a problem. But you don't need to go cold turkey; you can help take the edge off by buying Baptism of Fire and up to 150 other products of mine!

@screenmonkey Месяц назад

This Dungeons and Dragons shit, is an American problem..

@Calendyr Месяц назад

Good to know about the wokeness. Won't give them 1 penny

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@Journeyman107 Месяц назад

This part of RU-vid will complain about gaming becoming too political when they're the ones turning these internet hobby spaces into a maelstrom of politicized drama channels. Not once have a heard it brought up is that maybe the issue is more of an annoying aesthetic shift than a political/philosophical one. I personally think that long story short: the new art style just sucks and the influence of things like WOW and LoL are having a detrimental effect to realism in fantasy art. That being said, the market for geek culture has also become more diverse. Catan is like the new Monopoly, rappers flex MTG cards, and female Tinder bios are filled with D&D under listed interests. Stores which sell 40K are also selling plushies and earrings. These are new developments. Money talks and marketing teams likely see a need to reflect the larger mass market in the same way they do for insurance ads. They see the success of League and WoW, and the relatively lighthearted fairy tale aesthetic of Critical Role's interpretation of D&D. They are corporate businessmen. I'll admit there's nuance here, but it's insane to deny that D&D has come an extraordinarily long way from Gary's basement- and a lot of that distance was covered just in this past decade. However along with grifting for views these channels will also delete my comments when you try to have a discussion in the comments section instead of participating in their echo chamber. Happens over and over again. SAD!

@user-cs4su3ng9l Месяц назад

What do you expect them to do just lay down and get fucked by the Communist infiltrators?

@Dyrnwyn Месяц назад

The pricing makes sense if wotc is going full digital. Cash out on the useful idiots on a paper run, make the slightly less useful idiots buy digital

@whiskeyhound Месяц назад

What do you mean slightly less useful? the idiots buying digital get milked extra hard.

@Darkwintre Месяц назад

But what if they don't buy either?

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

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@HereComeMrCee-Jay Месяц назад

Correct, they are pushing towards a mostly digital model. The books are for collectors.

@David-lb3tp Месяц назад

Because of the nature of tabletop game rules (made up, moreso taught than read about and learned) you're actually buying an art book. It's bad art. I don't even know where to start with how ugly it is.

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

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@HelotOnWheels 25 дней назад

I agree that the whole "they'll play if they see themselves represented" concept was stupid. One of the greatest attractions of D&D was always that you could step in and play someone who *wasn't* like yourself; a muscled barbarian warrior, a beautiful elven sorceress, or even a psychotic killer-for-hire. I think it's presumptuous to assume that nothing can ever attract black women to D&D in large numbers, but yeah, just putting them in the art and reciting social justice shibboleths was never going to do it. And the things that would work -- things that would make geek culture as common among black women as among white women or men of any race -- are certainly beyond the power of Hasbro or any single company to bring about. But, so what? Just because having black women in the art isn't going to expand the market like Hasbro imagined doesn't make the art bad. Those of us who always understood that the game was about imagination and stepping into a really different personality can play (and many of us have played) black female warriors, sorceresses, and other heroic characters, and art that sparks that imagination is fine by me. Grace Jones's Zula from Conan the Destroyer was always a playable inspiration for any player of any race or gender. My only caveat is that black female adventurers in D&D art should be fresh and original, not cheap rip-offs of Larry Elmore.

@RPGPundit 25 дней назад

I've seen Zula. I know Zula. These Tracey-Abrams-like losers are no Zula. They're only there to force the reader OUT of heroic fantasy and thinking about myth, and obliged back INTO a "struggle session" of remembering Leftist ideology.

@tabletopgamingwithwolfphototec Месяц назад

😢 2:09 an then thier is people like me that end up buying them so i can do videos on them. 😢

@wardhale Месяц назад

Find something real to talk about

@RPGPundit Месяц назад

The obsession millennial bourgeois leftist unmarried women have with inventing imaginary black demographics that they can go all Khaleesi over is a very real phenomenon, that's destroying our entire civilization.