tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post5093863582304570813..comments2023-10-14T03:58:59.333-06:00Comments on The Tao of D&D: Lords of the BudgiesAlexis Smolenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-59288597483914533552017-10-23T11:05:28.977-06:002017-10-23T11:05:28.977-06:00This may be the harshest condemnation of the Game&...This may be the harshest condemnation of the Game's originators that you've yet written. <br /><br />That's not saying it's inaccurate.<br /><br />We live in an age of such intense scrutiny and such celerity of "reactionability" (I don't think that's a word) that the chance of individuals becoming honored "legends" is dwindling to zero. The legacies of individuals like, oh, say Bill Cosby or Harvey Weinstein or Joe Paterno have become so tainted that all their accomplishments are rendered null and void. Hell, even death isn't necessarily an escape from the skeletons in our closets (look at Marion Zimmer Bradley). All our human ugliness is easily put on display...so easily that individuals who look like squeaky-clean role-models (say, Russell Wilson) are viewed with some suspicion, as we wait for the "inevitable" dark secret to be revealed.<br /><br />And, sure, it's a Good Thing. We shouldn't condone or cover up bad behavior and we should be holding folks accountable for the pain and damage they cause, not lauding them or electing them President of the United States (*ahem*). Our Aquarian Age has turned to that phase of Aquarius that requires authenticity or iconoclasm. But even as I celebrate our newfound Age of Accountability, I'll feel at least a bit wistful of the passing of our Golden Age of Legends. For all my rants and gripes about the "system," I probably lean more towards the Get Off My Lawn type than the "Che" revolutionary.<br />: )JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-91363453215063296502017-10-23T07:06:23.734-06:002017-10-23T07:06:23.734-06:00Hello Alexis !
I don't have much to say about...Hello Alexis !<br /><br />I don't have much to say about Frank Mentzer (or Holmes, Moldvay or Arneson) - my own path in RPGs (in France) didn't put me into contact with D&D as "The Game", but merely "a game", so I didn't idealize anyone from it.<br />Although I blindly gave some measure of reverence to Gygax for a time, it was over before I started reading your blog, which cleaned such notions clean from my mind ^^.<br />And as gaming conventions are far more diverse here too (from what I gathered looking at US conventions' photos and blog articles), maybe it helped prevent such things ... Although I don't have "D&D grognards" in my close friends, so maybe they exist here too.<br /><br />However, as usual, your two posts really helped me to better understand the subject of those "icons" of old, the sad truth of their situation. And I can't help but feel that many a known name in this industry, even if still "young" and producing more successful content than the Old Ones, are growing in the same way - with perhaps more talent for some (not necessarily at making game, however ...).<br />Another sign of the stagnation of the major part of the "big money" commercial part of the hobby, I guess.<br /><br />Anyway, that was enlightning, thanks for that.<br /><br />PS : people, get on the Patreon please, I need more of this !Vlad malkavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14287760654547816927noreply@blogger.com