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Yeah, but are you talking about Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist, Great Lakes Region, Council of 1912 D&D or Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist, Great Lakes Region, Council of 1879 D&D?I'm not nnecessarily big OSR guy, but tbf there are games that IMO do D&D better than D&D.
I'm looking forward to his video about how to convert "gamepasters" because I fall squarely into that category (or at least he would say I do) and while I am confident there is zero (or, in terms he would use, 0.00%) chance he'll be able to convert me over to becoming a 5E DM, I suspect it might be funny to see him try, to see what his compelling arguments and techniques areIt's flabbergasting. It's even hard to make a joke. "Playing OSR at a ratio of 51 to 100 or more" etc is odd but that stuff about 1E DMs being "Gamepasters" and how he has a seperate method for converting them I just thought this has to be a pisstake, but it probably isn't.
Acceptance is the first step to recovery.because I fall squarely into that category
Now there's a joke I never thought I'd see referenced on an RPG forum. Bravo.Yeah, but are you talking about Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist, Great Lakes Region, Council of 1912 D&D or Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist, Great Lakes Region, Council of 1879 D&D?
Well I do want to know what the hell the three sea shells do?!??!This kind of thinking is how you get demolition men? Do you really want demolition men?
I think we both found the same fact check.I did a quick search and no one seems able to locate it. I read a bunch of Nietzsche as an angsty teen and this sounds too banal for Nietzsche. At best it is a poor paraphrase of one of his aphorisms.
Ironically I believe this is not an actual quote from Nietzsche!
I did a quick search and no one seems able to locate it. I read a bunch of Nietzsche as an angsty teen and this sounds too banal for Nietzsche. At best it is a poor paraphrase of one of his aphorisms.
Actually the more I look online the more I find most of the quotes of Nietzsche in English available online are rather mangled and poor.
Anyways, sorry for the tangent, it was a good joke.
Back on topic: quickly checked and recognize this guy as someone who used to be on the Nerdarchy videos.
So at first from the talk here I thought he may be trolling or joking but as I recall from Nerdarchy he's dead serious.
Ironically I believe this is not an actual quote from Nietzsche!
I did a quick search and no one seems able to locate it. I read a bunch of Nietzsche as an angsty teen and this sounds too banal for Nietzsche. At best it is a poor paraphrase of one of his aphorisms.
So, watched the third video. I've been spacing these out because, even though they are only @ 10minutes a piece, I do feel appreciable SAN loss from these viewings.
In this one he goes full Tom Hanks.
Notable quotes:
"I'm here to call you to a higher state of being"
"You have to understand what Dungeons & Dragons is. If you think Dungeons & Dragons is a game - get out! You ain't here, you're not on the list, alright? You are not being quested, alright? I am interested in doing this, and I am doing the run-up to my first OSR gamemaster rescue, because I believe Dungeons & Dragons is a Life Path. I don't believe for one second that Dungeons & Dragons is a game. Dungeons & Dragons has utterly transformed my life."
"I know that when Fizzband's uh Treasury of Dragons hits the shelves man I'm gonna...you know there's so many moments right? I'm gonna go up and I'm just gonna hold it in my hands, I'm gonna look at it right. you know, and I'm gonna resist rubbing it on my face in the FLGS"
"So if you are where I am and you are changed in spirit, mind. and heart - if your life has been transformed by Dungeons & Dragons and it is painful for you to think that there are dungeon masters who can...who are perfectly positioned, perfectly capable, perfectly...you know, um, "resourced" to bring dozens or hundreds or thousands of new people into that transformation, then we need to pull them off of these sucky, myopic, y'know, combat-focused games and bring them into the Real World where their talents can really matter and really shine. Then you are a candidate, If you dungeoned...5e dungeon master for three years. You know you're good at it. Your life has been transformed by Dungeons and Dragons. If those three things are true of you, you are a candidate to be a quested champion to go pull these OSR game masters out of the desiccated shriveled wasteland they live in and bring them into the light! Bring them into the glade where things are growing and things matter, and where it's rich black fertile soil ready to sprout a thousand transformed lives"
Fabulous. I'm keeping that one.So, watched the third video. I've been spacing these out because, even though they are only @ 10minutes a piece, I do feel appreciable SAN loss from these viewings.
Yeah, those quotes from the latest video make it undeniable that this guy isn’t all right upstairs and take the fun out of laughing at and mocking these videos.It's all good to have a laugh, but I think it's clear now this man isn't healthy. It's probably just best to leave it alone.
Yeah, those quotes from the latest video make it undeniable that this guy isn’t all right upstairs and take the fun out of laughing at and mocking these videos.
I kind of feel the same way. Despite his very dubious core premise it is flattering that he thinks people like me ("gamepasters") have something of value to offer and that he wants and thinks it's worth making an effort to recruit me to his side, which I can attest is not a very common sentiment among 5E fans. It's better than being condescendingly snickered at as an out-of-touch relic (or called a racist/imperialist shitlord because I prefer a version of the game that includes level limits and hard-coded racial alignments and intelligence ratings for monsters - even though I can and do make regular exceptions to those things as was intended all along).I kind of like him. He obviously has great enthusiasm for RPGs and whatever way he's engaging with them. Despite OSR people being soulless degenerates debased by the horrors of old game systems, he doesn't want to condemn them, cast them out, or even dismiss them. He wants to bring them into his "tribe" and he even accepts they have skills and methods that would benefit his beloved world.
However, to belittle other DnD related games is wrong.
Amen, but nothing with needles man...it's legal right?..."I'm here to call you to a higher state of being"
Mine to, when I finally graduated to being able to cast real spells I understood...wait, wrong world of delusion...it can be a game and change your life but it is still just a game...clearly a critical fail on his reality perception check, this is what happens when your dump stat is WIS...and it appears CHA too, where did all his points go? STR, not seeing it, INT, ah no. Must be DEX and CON...he seems quick with the safe handling of toxic ideas...yes DEX and CON I say."You have to understand what Dungeons & Dragons is. ...I don't believe for one second that Dungeons & Dragons is a game. Dungeons & Dragons has utterly transformed my life."
I need to look into this Fizzband...I'm guessing the books are published in a part time meth lab, why else would one rub their face in it...or is he rubbing our face in it. Are we allowed to face rub here? Just checking. Are they putting the D&D books in the back now behind a curtain? I'm so out of it."I know that when Fizzband's uh Treasury of Dragons hits the shelves man I'm gonna...you know there's so many moments right? I'm gonna go up and I'm just gonna hold it in my hands, I'm gonna look at it right. you know, and I'm gonna resist rubbing it on my face in the FLGS"
Yes but you say that like it is a good thing , now if you had mentioned Atomic Highway...yes that game opened my eyes...I'm going to go rub my face in my copy now."So if you are where I am and you are changed in spirit, mind. and heart - if your life has been transformed by Dungeons & Dragons ...."
Are we talking the same game? The most combat one-dimensional games have ever played in have been 5e games and RAW D&D games in general. The most role, instead of roll, playing have ever done with D&D was under OD&D + AD&D with a healthy ignoring of AD&D RAW, and a nice importation of JG rules. To be fair, a friend of mine also ran an excellent game under 2e + house rules."...., then we need to pull them off of these sucky, myopic, y'know, combat-focused games and bring them into the Real World where their talents can really matter and really shine. Then you are a candidate, If you dungeoned...5e dungeon master for three years. ..."
I need all of those things, but despite that failing I shall continue to stand as a game-master of my BRP-powered medieval fantasy game. When I was in high school the first edition of Chivalry and Sorcery appeared in a local store and from that point forward, I didn't care a fig for D&D, its history, its company or any of the rest of it.I'm starting to think he is suffering from a high fever and shouldn't be operating a moving vehicle and filming a YouTube video. Some people need a more balanced diet including varied veggies,fruit and lean protein. Plus a decent night's sleep.
Yup, after the first few times I played DnD and 1st Edition AD&D as it was being released I was already looking around for something that I felt was better. Sure I continued to play it off and on for the next couple decades but overall I quickly didn't want to run it.I need all of those things, but despite that failing I shall continue to stand as a game-master of my BRP-powered medieval fantasy game. When I was in high school the first edition of Chivalry and Sorcery appeared in a local store and from that point forward, I didn't care a fig for D&D, its history, its company or any of the rest of it.
If this clown showed up at my table waving a 5th edition DMG and talking about rescue, I would set the dog on him. I don't happen to have a dog at the moment, but I would definitely go borrow one for the occasion.
Oh dear, they've gotten to you...I just wish we could rescue all the people playing those outdated, obsolete, and culturally irrelevant traditional RPGs and get them all to play FATE.
Kinda expected we'd see something along those lines sooner or later.A new video dropped, but unfortunately he's started including politics in his rants, meaning he's now just the same as all those hundreds of thousands of other car rant videos on Youtube. So...there goes my interest.
It's there in his history if you look at his video titles. He got on a pretty long stretch of being obsessed with one particular politician, and I'm not even talking about a huge name either.A new video dropped, but unfortunately he's started including politics in his rants, meaning he's now just the same as all those hundreds of thousands of other car rant videos on Youtube. So...there goes my interest.
Kinda expected we'd see something along those lines sooner or later.
If only he could have remained pure, like Pardieu
Ah, those halycon days of youth, when our greatest struggle was resisting the urge to rub the latest D&D supplements on our faces before leaving the FLGS...