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Sadly wrestling is the same way. There are no bad guys because if you made bad guys that would get your show canceled and the same woke people would cause them problems. Look at comedy now. Wokism is a problem. Your example of orcs is a great one. When I wrote Within the Ring of Fire I thought what is the worst thing one being could do to another. Then I had a bad guy do that to a good guy.

@@woodwwad There is a new show out that I have been watching where everyone literally lives in hell. The villains do the worst stuff imaginable, and people try to say that the creator supports awful things, even though it is painted clear as day that we are supposed to hate the villain. People have become soft I guess. In regards to wrestling, it is somewhat similar. But in some promotions, the babyfaces are so neutered that heels can do awful things and get cheered because the babyfaces are so bland. I still follow wrestling a bit, but most of it is just out of habit to see what foolishness the companies are up to.

@@Sylasha what is the show? Sounds good. Yeah, I've loved wrestling my whole life - it is hard these days. Been watching WCCW from 1982 recently. My son sat and watched it with me and said, how they actually act like this is real - that's cool.

​@@woodwwad RU-vid munched up my comment, I'll be briefer this time. Hazbin Hotel, 95 million view indy youtube adult animated show that got picked up by amazon prime and released this week.Imagine a disney princess who sees the best in everyone trying to redeem the worst of the worst people in hell so that they don't get purged by heaven for overcrowding hell. It deals with very adult issues like murder, drug abuse and sexual assault. Demons and angels don't think redemption is possible, but she has to try and save people because she is believes in the good of everyone and her resolve will be pushed to the limit.

@@woodwwad I didn't know this neo-puratanism had infected wrestling. I don't get how that could have happened, given the wrestling fans I've known.

Thank you my friend. They are disrespectful trash and need the hogan leg dropped on them for the 3.

hate to hear you had that happen to you

It is pretty common in a game I run for a die to never be rolled.

@@woodwwad Exactly! I remember a great WtRoF session you ran back in the day that was two straight hours of in-character dialog: sitting around chatting around the campfire. It was awesome.

@@ShiceSquad thanks brother, I"ve run a lot of those through the years.

@@ShiceSquad My first WtRoF did not have any combat for like 4 sessions in a row one time.

@@HCGxreaver Did you post that? A long time ago? 'Cause I recall several great online sessions by other people besides Ander (Lou?) who did supreme storytelling with next to no combat, so every fight was truly memorable.

Yeah, when I went to gen con 7 years ago I was terrified how close to what you are describing was true. I think a lot of these kids would be broken if they watched one of my games.

You damn right, now and forever! I cannot stand how our media and education system is turning kids into fools.

No, it is simply another piece of what the issue with this company is. They are trash and it is really sad that they own the rights to this great game. But it is very disrespectful of these fools to make such comments about the people that actually made real D&D.

Love using Night Hags in my game as monsters. I really have them down. Like horrifying grandmothers. One of the other things I hate about wotc is that they removed int penalties because every race is just as smart as every other one.

@woodwwad even the movie Gremlins understood that a good aligned gremlin and a highly intelligent gremlin was the exception, not the rule. Its just good storytelling to set the expectation from the start and if you subvert that expectation later, its something you remember. "Everybody is the same" is bland and bland is forgettable.

@@drizzo4669 You are certainly right about that, bland is forgettable and of course bitch ass. I try to make NPCs really stand out. My son is a gremlin, I have to get the fly swatter out every time he takes a shower. I've yet to meet one of them that had a "good" alignment.

It never was "the whole race is evil" though. The Monster Manual is an "on average" kind of deal. Most Orcs have a strength of 12, some might have 10, or 14, but most 12. It was the same for alignments. Also, this whole thing wouldn't be a problem if Wizards hadn't removed the full alignment text which explained the system's definishions of good and evil. "Oh but everyone knows what good and evil are! We can cut this!" they say, removing an uncommon definishion used in philosophy classes by which a guy who disliked government and was motivated by money so he did a little tax evasion to further inflate his shop's prices would be chaotic evil.

@@MeepChangeling I think I might be a little worried what wotc might include on an alignment chart these days.

Well I just despise the way these people exploit our hobby - a thing that they did nothing positive for and have hurt so much. Hating on the very people they make money off.

I agree it’s beyond disgusting

@@idian100 it is bad enough my son has to deal with this every day at school. I see I really triggereed one guy on here, he came at me with 5 fake accounts.

I hate to hear about cultural appropriation. To the Woke it is cultural appropriation when you use something from a culture in a game but if you don't use anything from that culture you are Eurocentric. So it is unwinable.

@@woodwwad I agree with you completely, there’s just no pleasing some people and those people usually aren’t even worth pleasing

@@cheshiregodfrey7633 They aren't the sort of people you see complaining in the comments here are exactly the type of players that would never make it in my game. They would get triggered every 5 minutes.

Thank you my friend.

You just started talking about Drivethru after I posted this. Glad you covered them as well.

@@gaozhi2007 Yeah, it really make me annoyed. It is like they think everyone was preventing anyone that wasn't a straight, white male from playing back in the AD&D years. I played with so many people that weren't straight, white males back then. It was fine. No one was being shames, made to feel bad or excluded. Until the libs bring this sort of thing up I don't even notice - because until they make me feel different I wasn't different from the people they claim aren't like me.

I think so too

@shrinpy4307 Then you’re part of the problem.

@@RohanAirsoft what problem?

Not mad, just found wotcs comments under AD&D books to be really ungrateful and thought I'd comment on it. From the amount of discussion below seems like a good topic.

@@woodwwad From a RU-vid perspective, yes, it's a good topic, but I prefer discussion about the games themselves. I've had my fill of political debate and games are purely about recreation for me. Good luck to you and your channel.

@@chrisdonovan8795 Well I have well over 700 videos. It isn't like this is the first topic I covered. This is one of the oldest RPG CHANNELS ON RU-vid.

​@@chrisdonovan8795i always found it quite ironic that in our ultracapitalist society, people will complain that a brand they used to like is no longer to their standards. Companies aren't forcing anyone to buy things they don't like and no one should be forced to make a product exactly how someone else likes it. The Tabletop RPG genre has plenty of other options. People have gotten spoiled by the variety.

@@LawlessChemistry Lawless Chemistry.... Walt, is that you? 😉 I agree. In ten years, my loved ones aren't going to gather to mark the day that I fell in glorious battle against the tyranny of WOTC.

thanks brother

Why? The video was fun to make.

Pretty sure the video does explain that. Those that produce D&D currently are the worst stewards the hobby has ever seen.

@@woodwwad it was a tip on how to better deliver a message not a complaint about some issue regarding facts. It was a comment about aesthetics.

@@nootnik Thank you, my aesthetic is deranged ranting ;)

Sounds good, we'll make that one for you.

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@@LoremasterRelomi I'm sorry you're afraid of needles.

@@TheVoxxification So for clarity from your post, I take it you are a lefty?

So do you enjoy being treated like an overprotected child or?

Well it is sad how woke a lot of these kids are. It is sad that Wotc is teaching them to be very poor quality RPGers. But it is best to point these things out. Woke culture is a problem.

@@woodwwad is it sad? I'm not sure how

and I don't think WoTC is teaching them anything, it's just going with the flow, they're teaching WoTC

@@davidguerrero1636 You don't think that wotc teaches a poor quality of play?

@@woodwwad What does being 'woke' have to do with 'poor quality of play'? I'm not a fan of WOTC or 5e... but I'm not seeing the equation. Not that I'm a fan of the lipservice to 'woke' folks either (who I think are of various ages, not just kids)... but that's not the part that turns me off the game/company.

Yeah, I like physical books but I know a lot of players that just pirated all that stuff.

are they though?

People dont want politics or ideologies in every aspect of their lives...least of all in gaming/DND - keep it aa a creative outlet without legal disclaimers. Nobody cares if group A has some racial orc lore in their game or group B has 69 genders in their characters

Not an appeal to rightwingers - the amount of anti- religious comments I've made in videos should show that. But wokism is a lefty religion and I don't think the emotional appeal of gays are being attacked has anything to do my topic. What wizards is doing is disrespect and wokism is dangerous and should not be forced on children. That being said, calling people on their bs isn't an attack on a whole group.

@@woodwwad Yeah, I don't think you taking a poke at WOTC for this performative crap is necessarily 'Right Wing', it's just a rational response to what's going on. I don't really mind the 'pronoun' thing, or having gay/transgender characters in a game... what bugs me is loudly trumpeting self-righteousness purity for having done so. Go ahead and have a gay PC/NPC, but just do it... don't make a big freaking marketing display about it. Doing the Dance-of-Shame for not having such characters, or having 'evil' orcs or whatever... sheesh! Such spineless weenies!

@@venusboys3 I think it is fairly hard to call an antitheist Atheist who is very pro science a right winger. I'm not an ideologue or a full on lefty - and the left if very intolerant of non conformity which is sad. I don't care what pronoun you want to call yourself but there shouldn't be legal repercussions for those that don't want to call you by them.

Yeah, the new wod is horrible. What was your least favorite part about it?

@@woodwwad both nWod but also 5th edition. My credentionals: 10years weekly Storyteller for Vampire 3rd and 4th edition (4th=20anniversary). Well for starters oWod was always about having real history,myths and legend collide into the lore and thats not something nWod does. Also the game mechenics were ment to be streamlined but I didnt experience it as such. I like the vastness of oWod lore and mechenics as a sort of 'pool' for the storyteller to draw from. As for 5th edition vampire it feels more like a reboot of the whole universe: My twin brother does really love to run 5th, but he new in the WoD universe (only played a little bit of 4th with me before we moved out of parents house). He told me a lot of what they have done with the lore and mechenics. I must say mechenicly there are things I like, like the hunger mechenic. But its dumb you need to buy special dice for it (feels like a cash grab). But my biggest beef is that they changed lore to fit the politicalness. For example I feel that Tremere and Giovanni got overhaul to be more inclusive and less 'edgy'. But the whole point was that they were culty, disgusting, weird, scary, etc. Having the dynamic change between Camerilla, Anarchs and Sabbat feels a bit farfetched too to me: Every era the vampires are in their sociaty adapts because vampires of that time get embraced, but I dont really believe the changes made now are natural enough. Mabye I am just getting old. I remember seeing your "what vampire are you" video all those years ago when I was a aspiring DM, and here am I now as a salty veteran 😂

@@woodwwad so for oWoD my biggest gripe was the abandonment of real world History/Myth/Legends. That is the main driving force behind the lore. And as far as the new (5th) edtion for Vampire goes I feel like this is also a reboot. They destroyed some clans and shuffled vampire politics around. It kinda feels to me it trys to wipe away the more edgy parts of the lore (Tremere, Giovanni are gone and Sabbat has a way more minor role) while amplying parts that appeal to the target audience (Anarchs and a less boomer Camerilla). Doesnt feel realistic to me how they pivoted it. +Hunger mechenic is cool, but you do need to buy special dice for it. Is the first step towards monetising the system. Note: I am a storyteller for vampire for 10years now. So I do got a lot of experience, but mabye I am also rusted into it. This is just my opinion.

@@Emperor_Atlantis I thought the nwod was really uninspired stuff. Read like bad fanfic of wod. That's cool, glad you've been with Your Main Man for so long.

@@woodwwad your quiz video was at the beginning of my roleplay journey. Didnt comment that much over the years, but I am still here 👍

Yeah, white wolf did that too. I found that very annoying. I just used they when writing Within the Ring of fire. Yeah, I think you would be very disappointed with a 6e darksun.

Gehenna happened and it is modern WOD - I own zero WOD books after revised. I loved that game and learned a lot from it about gaming - what they are doing is hideous.

They are so disrespectful - it is pitiful. I've been buying a lot of 1st and 2nd ed stuff in the last few years which you can see in my book picks up videos. Yeah, buy originals that way wotc doesn't get any money from you! That disclaimer really annoyed me and I figured why not make a vid.

Oh, I'm not mad. I just like to take it to WotC. The whole of what they are saying is very disrespectful though and very ungrateful towards the culture that created the game that they continue to disrespect with their actions.

@@woodwwad Ok I get why you would think it could be a lack of respect, I don't really think it is. I mean it's like saying yeah grand dad has some antiquated views about the world and some of them are not politically correct but we still respect and like him.

Because it is infantilizing to think people would not instinctively know older products were made from those times. And even then they are nowhere near as "bad" as these disclaimers make them out to be

​@@Skullnaught Yeah I agree there's some infantilism there but it's really not that big of a deal to me, it's like the warning that coffee is hot on the McDonald's plastic cup. And yeah I agree to that it's not as bad as the disclaimer make it sound like but it's the typical corporate exaggerated corporate message

I don't either. It's more silly to be mad about it. It's obvious that people complained. Remember the satanic panic? Why were we calling devils Tanar'ri? Oh yeah because of the same kind of stuff.