GuerillaGrue
Transperson. She/Her preferred, They/Them fine.
I do art stuff, and music stuff, and writing stuff. I love video and tabletop games, and hope to some day incorporate that into Something That Makes It Big.
Very Political.
Photo: cartoon image of woman, blonde curly hair, broad toothy smile, three quarters turned to face right.
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72·4 months ago@Shyfer Not gonna lie, I’m surprised this has to be said?
Like… everything I’ve *ever* heard about Gygax pushed the idea that he was THE prototypical grognard that causes the TTRPG hobby so much trouble.
Dungeons and Dragons, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, all the way up through at least 3rd Ed and with continuing themes past that… it has obvious racist and sexist roots in so much of how things are set up, and that’s always the first thing I try to throw out any time I run a game.
@Cube6392
*nods*
I like that the broader hobby is at least trying right now - even with as small of changes as shifting from ‘race’ to ‘ancestry’ or ‘background’ for establishing starting character genotype/phenotype - but it’s depressing how much pushback even that gets from folks who want to defend the way it’s always been.
The fact that most of the folks looking to defend the racism are *also* the ones who want to insist that incredibly sexist worlds are “historical”… in a fantasy game?