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Nerds invite you into their world and chats about TTRPGs w/ OSR vibes, Board & Video Games, pop culture, & more! Links & support:

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Joined October 2019
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This week's episode of the Big Show is here! RT to share! Listen and enjoy! Our friend @A_DungeonDelver sits in w/ the gang to talk about the #WotC #AIArt FAQ that made the internet shout at clouds! Plus, a trip to Reddit & cosmic horror in the news!
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If you get it, we can be friends.
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Our condolences to all of our #GamesWorkshop #warhammer40k friends.
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No punchline necessary.
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Here's to hoping you snagged one of those cool plants too! Never saw one like it before...
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You know, just one week we would like wizards to not feed us material that we can mock.
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Let's put this on the record, again: If in your mind you see an orc (any demi human) and associate it with a real world human being or culture, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. It's not the game, its creator, and/or players that need help. Fin.
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Remember, they exist outside of the #TTRPG hobby too.
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"We told you so" is so cliche, but we told you so. They want to fundamentally change everything about your hobby. Resist.
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HASBRO SHOPPING DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS?!? We told you so. Let's hope it lands in the hands of a responsible custodian. #DnD for sale.
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SHARE AND RT THIS, AND PULL YOUR PLEDGES. No joke, across three households, we cancelled three pledges to @PBS today. No amount of decent children's programming can make this kind of revisionist history and political pandering acceptable. Use the hashtag: #PBSCriticalFailure
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They left out that it was by suicide. #DnDisDEAD #DnD
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The sparkletrolls scoffed at us when we pointed out that Wizards was rolling the snowball down the mountain of destruction. There will be nothing left unless the unwashed masses vote w their wallet & protect things that they love. #WotC is actively trying to kill #MtG & #DnD .
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@KRGameStudios Virtue signaling sparkletrolls.
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You go first. Far and Fast. Does @hasbro and @Wizards really support openly racist statements made by their executive leadership? #NotOneMoreGP #diversity #racism #DnDBegone
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It's going to be even more amazing when the #Witcher does the same without Henry Cavill.
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Don't worry, you weren't. Besides, Worf > Tasha.
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Yeah right. No one at Wizards is listening to us. Their product wouldn't be so abysmal if they did.
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#WotC has turned #DnD into a sad parody of itself. They continue to write garbage, not to better the game, but to score high fives from the SparkleTrolls that don't buy their books. Do your part. Show a SparkleTroll the exit. Make them uncomfortable and never want to return.
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Here's the truth: they still think we're overreacting. Keep. Making. Noise. Play the #OSR . #OpenDnD
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Oh fuck off, BBC. #DnD is, was, and always shall be the haven for misanthropes, outcasts, geeks, nerds, and general weirdos. It's when the normies came in that the problems began.
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...and another casualty. Hollywood is politically bloated and creatively bankrupt.
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When the DEI freaks, SparkleTrolls, and Critters claim that there was no "RePrEsEnTatIon" in classic games, just smile and know they are full of shit.
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Nothing has changed. ✅ 1.0a deauthorized ✅ No arbitration ✅ Thought police Stay vigilant. Fuck Wizards. #NotOneMoreGP #DnDBegone #OGL #OneDND
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Keep THEIR mental illness away from YOUR table. #GatekeepingIsGood
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Friends don't let friends pay for #DnD .
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No, 2/3 of the players are actively making a choice to reject the normalization of repugnant behavior designed to destroy cultural mores. #BaldersGate3 #BearSex was no accident, or joke. It was a calculated political insert, but the silent majority didn't buy it.
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Nothing like the destruction of lore and introduction of a character that would never have succeeded in that setting. The destruction of the hobby and politicization from within is astounding. Stand your ground. Vote with your wallet. #NotOneMoreGP , #WotC .
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Can't imagine that.
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We can't help that your "intellectual" hate left yourself out in the cold. 🤷‍♂️ PS: We like reading too.
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Do these squeebs even know we are laughing at them, in Ripley?
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. @DrivethruRPG strikes again with arbitrary censorship. How about this for an idea: let people decide what they want to buy with their own dollars.
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#censorship ...and MEN has been "temporarily suspended" after a customer reported the title "as potentially containing offensive content" @DriveThruRPG . And we know what happens when products are temporarily suspended, don't we? It took them a day, for fuck's sake!
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Nah. Sometimes evil just exists and is... Wait for it .. Evil.
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"Theythems aren't trying to politicize the hobby! You grognards are just a bunch of bigots."
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One of the worst things birthed from 3e was the perceived "need" for encounter balance. Now you have SparkleTrolls running around, thinking they are invincible superheroes. Make. Them. Cry.
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Cynthia Williams of #WotC has resigned. More as deets come out, but this is a fart in the wind. The entire culture and cast of characters needs to change for any meaningful improvement to take place.
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@Michael68698236 Ok, wheels.
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Yes. Please begin to eat your own! May we suggest using the garbage phrase "problematic story arcs" for your next hit piece. #CriticalRole kicked open the door to the destruction of our hobby. Pick 'em apart, glittery ones!
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Oh dear gods, no.
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And people said that the WotC-nazi stunt would shake the sparkletrolls back to their senses! Ha!
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You want to know what's great? Your racist ass can't take shit away from anyone.
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Yep, one at a time the sparkletroll tourists are marching back to Wizards. Wizards does have one thing right. For this crew that doesn't really play the game, it IS a lifestyle brand. Without their Führer, they are lost souls soldiering through a 4-hour shift at Target.
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@osgamer74 @OldGameHermit "You’re not doing it while I am DM." Choo Choo! Railroad much?
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Just a guess here, and we love the franchise and the books, but it probably bombed because outside of moments, it was terrible.
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You either just say it or leave the group. Don't ask the internet for permission, Zoomers can't function without a life-walkthrough. 🤦🏼‍♀️
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Our heart skipped a beat when we saw "Bob Barker" trending, especially knowing today is his 99th! He's alive and well -- and the ONLY host of TPIR. Suck it, Drew.
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Reminder: @Wizards @Wizards_DnD @Hasbro is releasing the Damage Control doc re: the OGL 1.1 atrocity today. Read critically & remember: it took attorneys over a week to craft this language. Keep. Making. Noise. RT your peeps. Don't back down. #OGL #OSR #OpenDnD #OneDnD #DnD
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Too little, too late. We. Don't. Believe. You. #WotC #OGL #OpenDnD .
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Yeah, that headshot is going to make people want to play the game. They still don't know who their actual revenue base is, do they?
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...that absolutely no one should purchase. #OpenDnD or not one more cent.
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Victory. Now go support everything 1.0a and still fuck Wizards.
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Who cares? #CR #CriticalRole and their ilk have been a blight on the hobby. Aside: Is this the standard #Sparkletroll DM pose?
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Please continue to exclude yourselves. You're making our job very easy. Plus, we'll scoop up good players. Purge the hobby. #GatekeepingIsGood
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They won't stop. Ever. #DnD is dead. #WotC is determined to politically appease the demi-humans that DON'T buy their products as opposed to recapturing the audience that could bring them back from the ledge. #NotOneMoreGP
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#DCC is done. Remember, when dealing with the #woke mob and #sparkletrolls , Reese knows best: "It Doesn’t Feel Pity, Or Remorse, Or Fear, And It Absolutely Will Not Stop, Ever, Until You Are Dead!"
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If ever there was a product that was so woke, so compromised, and so filled with hatred for the people that are buying it, it's Zweihander. If you hear of any of your friends even thinking about backing this, smack some sense into them.
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Considering the show was abysmally bad, imagine how painful sitting at that table must have been.
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We read Tolkien, Howard, and Gygax. Theythem are reading golden books and pretending they are Mrs. Frisby. Our hobbies are not the same. #GatekeepingIsGood
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It seems that Wil Wheaton is still insufferable and doesn't get humor, especially good, satisfying humor. Imagine if you unironically were this disconnected with reality and normal human responses.
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SparkleTroll problems.
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...And he still failed. #BaldursGate3 #fail
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Today's a great day. Enjoy your Gary Gygax day.
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We forgave Crystal Skull, we won't forgive skullfucking the franchise. Thanks, #Disney .
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When you say inclusion, theythem hear invasion. #GatekeepingIsGood
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Oh dear lord. What an abomination this is likely to be... We weep. #DnD is dying.
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This is an admission, and possibly a cry for help. Don't help them, let them go quietly and pollute a different hobby. #GatekeepingIsGood
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Scooby-Doo! Where are you? Child protective services! Where are you? #Velma
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This morning at the FLGS, as we were setting up for our Saturday game... When the DM pulled out the AD&D DMG, some 🤡 from the pokémon cards spotted it and shouted "There's a table full of racists!" He was removed from the shop and told he's not welcome back. Small victories.
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We've got this #CriticalRole list covered: 10. Don't 9. Watch 8. This 7. Predetermined 6. Tripe 5. Go 4. Play 3. A 2. Real 1. #TTRPG
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Why not? Wizards has been destroying lore ever since they hired activists instead of game designers. Just another reason in addition to the #OGL whoopsie to #boycott the #DnDmovie . #DnDBegone #NotOneMoreGP
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Okay, so this week, the glittery ones got back on their knees for WotC, Gygax was labeled "progressive," books are bougie, and Wookiepedia leaned hard into left rhetoric. Someone help us clear our heads, tell us something good this Sunday morning!
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Look at that, not even a week after the sparklelords at WotC turned their backs on the hobby, the pop gaming media comes crawling to the #OSR on their knees... Let's be welcoming, but cautious. @GatekeepingIsGood
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"Your party approaches the entrance of the dungeon. Timmy the tiefling wonder bard on wheels sighs as the rest of the group abandons him and descends the elaboratly carved stairs..."
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The #TTRPG carousel has spun around to " #slavery in games is bad." #OSR adjacent friends: Mark your bingo cards and place your bets for their next controversy rehash. Why can't theythem #sparkletrolls in the #ttrpgcommunity / #ttrpgfamily come up with anything new?
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Word salad on a sticker... With polyhedrons. Modern society has a legitimate mental illness epidemic. Ain't no mask that can cure this.
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Ok. ...and? Sometimes the PC has got to go. 😈🤷🏽‍♂️
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Us: #GatekeepingIsGood . You can often tell who to vet looking at as little as one post. SparkleTrolls: "HoW dArE yOu ImPLy tHaT yOu CaN tELL wHo ShOuLd bE GatEKept fRoM JusT OnE PosT!!!!!" The post:
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We can't put all our eggs in the #pathfinder basket. Remember the key phrase voiced by RD: "Be cautiously optimistic and critically skeptical."
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This story just keeps getting better and better. If the ride you're on at the carnival starts smoking, you don't go around for a second spin.
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This is not an actual play, it's actual hobby poison. "OMG! My tiefling is gonna be late for class! Lulz!" 🙄🙄🙄🙄 Purge the hobby. #GatekeepingIsGood Aside: overreacting like this 👇👇👇 should be reserved for pr0n. At least that mouth is pretty...
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Not at our table. We're playing a game, and we're not allowing you to impose your mental defects on our fun time. If you want to talk about your daddy issues, we're going to invoice you. #GatekeepingIsGood
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Because neither #CriticalRole , nor their fan base actually play.
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Woke gone wild week continues! So it looks like @hauntedtable is now refunding pledges of customers that are not politically aligned with them. This is the inverse version of refusing to bake the gay wedding cake, which we're willing to bet they found abhorrent.
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Well, I'll be dammed. They decided to refund my pledge. Guess they thought my money they used to make their game wasn't worth having me around them.
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One playable race has got to go. Reply with your choice and why!
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Looks like the machine is ramping up to defend the wokewizards revision of the OGL which appears, at least to us, to make changes that will discourage content creation.... Screw the pop gaming media. The boys talk about it this week on the 'cast. Give it a listen!
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They really, really just can't keep their mouth shut. It's an illness. #NotOneMoreGP #DnDBegone
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Someone brought this to our attention. Bwhahahahaha. Zero interaction, all satisfaction.
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This has to be the best result so far of today's sparkletroll trap.
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We told you so. They/them are back in step, leaving daisies and glitter in their wake. Never forget. Keep making noise. #NotOneMoreGP #OGL #OpenDnD #DnDBegone
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Because this is exactly what Gygax missed in the system.... For fucks sake, #TTRPG peeps. 🤦🏼‍♂️
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It's getting harder and harder differentiate parody accounts from serious #SparkleTrolls .
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Don't groom sparkletrolls. Insist on games that will build skills and character for your children, not generate activists that will destroy the hobby.
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We wish we could say that we felt empathy for this dungeon master, but we don't. Grow a spine. Say no. Of course, the easy solution now is just to have the demon slaughter every character while they rest.
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"Why is it such a big deal to you guys?" It's not. We care far less about #black #Aragorn than we do about #WotC sending #Pinkertons to some poor dude's house over #MtG cards. Terrible is terrible, but there are still degrees of terrible.
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Sometimes, even we can't tell if someone is sparkletrolling or if it's parody. Regardless, it's pretentious to put a string of letters after your name, especially on Twitter, especially especially when it's only a 4-yr degree. (Upon investigation, it's clearly a sparkletroll.)
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Knock knock, motherfucker.
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That's a lot of fancy words being thrown around to sum up what can be explained with just one word: Grifters.
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Just remember, #BaldursGate3 is an endorsement of everything modern #WotC wants. You can't have a selective memory. If you support one head of the hydra, you validate the whole creature.
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The silence from @wizards_dnd , @wizards , and @hasbro regarding the #OGL "revision" leak, and consequential disruption in the hobby is deafening. They. Don't. Care. #NotOneMoreGP #OpenDnD
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If you didn't see this coming, you're part of the problem. #WotC continues to go unchecked and be an unhealthy segment for Hasbro.... Why? RD's "conspiracy theories" from the show keep coming true...
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You didn't believe us when we said they didn't really play. #SparkleTrolls . Don't. Really. Play.
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