The TTRPG writers community was (as far as I can tell) the first to fall to the woke mind virus.
It was shortly before the Fantasy / SF publishing industry.
I used to post on RPG.net as my major forum. It would have been 2006 or 2008 or something.
RPG publications are a niche of a niche market. The industry is very incestuous. Industry leaders were already going that way before the takeover; specifically White Wolf, which had a lot of women writers and appealed very strongly to women.
People very much get hired by relationships and reputation. At some point it reached critical mass.
Degree of autism present in respective population.
SJW politics are basically an impossibly complex "rule set" for life, so it resonates with the same people. They can minmax their class AND their sexuality.
Why IS tabletop gaming so pozzed, anyway?
I mean, western video games are pretty pozzed, but tabletop just seems orders of magnitude worse.
The TTRPG writers community was (as far as I can tell) the first to fall to the woke mind virus.
It was shortly before the Fantasy / SF publishing industry.
I used to post on RPG.net as my major forum. It would have been 2006 or 2008 or something.
RPG publications are a niche of a niche market. The industry is very incestuous. Industry leaders were already going that way before the takeover; specifically White Wolf, which had a lot of women writers and appealed very strongly to women.
People very much get hired by relationships and reputation. At some point it reached critical mass.
Degree of autism present in respective population.
SJW politics are basically an impossibly complex "rule set" for life, so it resonates with the same people. They can minmax their class AND their sexuality.
I suspect because the academic skills and networking required to get a job in the RPG industry is adjacent to the same ones required for journalism.