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6/29/2025, 4:28:04 PM
>>713969000
It was bound to happen. When you fail to gatekeep your hobbies and allow them to become mainstream (especially in today's vapid, superficial culture) just to feel validated by the same people that made fun of you and never really cared, you get what's been happening to DnD and ttrpgs atm.
Then again, what CAN you realistically do when the companies that own these games (most famous examples being WOTC and Paizo) are left-leaning in their rhetoric themselves.
Mercer and his theater kid group may have brought in the unrealistically high production and storytelling values, but they also found a very fertile ground to grow their "modern" tropes in the current landscape of ttrpgs.
It was bound to happen. When you fail to gatekeep your hobbies and allow them to become mainstream (especially in today's vapid, superficial culture) just to feel validated by the same people that made fun of you and never really cared, you get what's been happening to DnD and ttrpgs atm.
Then again, what CAN you realistically do when the companies that own these games (most famous examples being WOTC and Paizo) are left-leaning in their rhetoric themselves.
Mercer and his theater kid group may have brought in the unrealistically high production and storytelling values, but they also found a very fertile ground to grow their "modern" tropes in the current landscape of ttrpgs.
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