Hot Take: 5e is too bloated with unnecessary rules and should be simplified - eviltoast
  • MonsieurHedge@kbin.social
    169·
    1 year ago

    5e is already too simple, playing anything simpler makes me want to vomit.

    Plus, OSR games are generally made by the most absolute vicious racists and general bigots imaginable. Genuinely awful in every way possible.

    • L26@ttrpg.network
      12·
      1 year ago

      Can you link me some sources on the racism/bigotry? Genuinely curious, didn’t realize this was the case.

      • TheGreatDarkness@ttrpg.networkOP
        3·
        1 year ago

        OSR has a vocal minority or reacitonaries giving it bad name. But even among perpetually online, they’re a minority. Facebook had two OSR fan groups - one for reactionaries (it’s now deleted) and other being very welcoming and progressive. The latter had ten times as many members.

      • Dice@ttrpg.network
        22·
        1 year ago

        He’s likely referring to the New TSR, which did make a pretty racist race section for a game. But they already are basically dead as a company, if not actually bankrupt.

        The only other scandals would be WotC getting sued for labelling Adnd stuff as racist, when WotC made at least 2 books with racist art in the 2020s. Or the Zac S lawsuit, where a pornstar OSR creator was accused of stuff then won the lawsuit so easily he looks like the nice guy in porn. Reggie (LotFP) is also weird, but not the average creator. He’s basically just an eccentric artist.

        The OSR is way less bigotted than WotC. Hell Shadowdark was made by a lesbian and she is very well regarded even by people critical of SD as a system.