Same shit, different millenium
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It is very much not the same shit, and that Stanford professor happens to be a retard: D&D has always been an aggressively woke system. From 3E on, it recognized no differences between men and women, and the only racial differences it recognized were between different species.
And I say "From 3E on," because I know there was a brief period in 2E where women's strength was capped at 18(50) and men's was capped at 18(00) - but I'm not sure if that was in the Player's Handbook or if it was just a feature of certain early '90s video games.
If the newspaper clipping was from 1981 then it would have to be referring to AD&D1e or earlier. 2e was published in 1989.
All editions published after 2e weren't solely compiled by Gygax so aren't actually DnD. They're a woke troon committee created monstrosity wearing a DnD skinsuit.
Well, I checked, and the original D&D recognized no stat differences whatsoever between the sexes.
AD&D (both editions) capped women's strength at 18(50) instead of 18(00), which meant women could never lift more than 280 pounds, while men could potentially lift up to 480.
But Gygax said in an interview he never enforced that rule because the whole game was fantasy so who really gives a shit about that particular sliver of realism.
...even though in many other ways, Gygax was obsessed with realism and wanted the DM to track basically every calorie the players ate.
Correct. But he was big on the "realism" of combat & weapons. That came from his tabletop game background. Economics however? When a goblin carries a year's worth of wages? Lolz. So broken.
This is why I kept all my 1st edition books and modules. Original DMG and PH. Not to mention MM and FF. As me about the G1-3 series and D1-3 series (followed of course, by Q1).
You're adventurers will never see the light of day again.
yeah, once you see how it evolved into and caused a game like baldur's gate 3, which is Bear Demon Rape: The Game, you can definitely start seeing what all the "moral panics" were about.
>D&D has always been
>From 3E on
Given the extensive racial differences from at least the era when THAC0 was still in use, I'm gonna say that's a tenuous claim.
Last I checked dnd was all gay pride shit
It is. The "new edition" has Orcs as cool guys, gayness everywhere & human males are useless. So I've read. In their promotional images, at least 7/10 persons in them are gay, usually cross-species too. I don't mean half-elves, I mean animals or demons and demi-humans.
same people, too
sure, back then they pretended to be christians, but that was because society was still largely religious
Yep, the Satanic Panic folks are just the same coin as the SJW folks today. Group of people who want to enforce their opinions on others with no self reflection of the evil they're doing. It's about power, not morals. The society at the time allowed them to behave like this, so they did.
Both groups are just fakes. Retarded wolves in Sheep clothing.
I lived through it all! Satanic Panic, D&D is demon worship, "backwards masking", anti-nuclear activism & more. Mostly while at a Fundamentalist Christian boarding school (because my high school had a shooting in 1979... in Canada!).
It was all openly idiotic! But the Media ran with it & there was lots of money to be made "investigating" these things.
Can't get rid of it? Take it over and enshitify it.
Jokes on these fuckers. A lot of us are sharing old TSR books online.
Not just free.
But free of their taint.
Millenials are just like the boomers but much worse
However, we're breeding some top tier shitposting talent in whatever generation is in high school now.
In the 80s only demonic freaks played d and d. It was not a healthy influence.
DnD was born of tabletop war games which was born of tabletop military wargames which was born of military commanders strategizing.
The fantasy genre it builds off of is rooted in Tolkien whose friend and contemporary was theologian CS Lewis.
Demonic freaks will be demonic freaks whether they're playing DnD or hoop and stick.
You're correct, but he won't understand.
So politicians played in the 80s?
"They're the same picture". Only difference was this articles goal was to demonize the game of the past so it can be extra gay today (which it is).
Wanna guess the race of the boomer who made the post in 1981?