Mike Mearls' New Job
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2024
- Talking about the new DMG, A Baptism of Fire Review, and Mike Mearls' new job!
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Record of Lodoss War was the most D&D media I could recall as a GenX
Yes, I'd say that's correct for the 80s/90s.
That's an awesome anime.
It was fairly closely based on the creators' actual D&D game.
Outstanding series
A new iteration of Stormbringer would be cool out of Chaosium. I’d buy that.
Michael Moorcock would never give them a licence again
Haven't watched the video uet, but it's funny to read its title, and then see the thumbnail. It seems to imply that Mearls' new job is writing books for Pundit.
As far as S&S-adjacent children's shows go, Thundarr has stood the test of time, but the D&D cartoon clearly hasn't. Compared to its contemporary Thundercats, it's even embarrassing.
For my fellow Frenchmen : we're talking of course about "Arok le Barbare", "Le Sourire du Dragon" and "Cosmocats" ;)
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The D&D cartoon was an absolute masterclass in how to be a dungeon master. E.g. if one of your players insists on playing an acrobat, you _must_ include a 20' pit (or something else which needs to be leaped over) in _every_ episode.
@@rickcarson591 Thief-Acrobat. The character class no one was asking for. 😬
*Galtar and the Golden Lance* has entered the chat 😉
it sure is odd how Sad puppies, consultantgate, comicsgate, and gamergate all happened VERY close to eachother in time. its almost like we were under assault.
but im sure that was only a coincidence.
What is consultant gate? Also who is assaulting us?
Yup. I think Consultantgate was a test run for Gamergate.
@@user-cs4su3ng9l Consultant gate is discussed in the video, about halfway through.
@@user-cs4su3ng9l You askig as if you don’t know and agree means you’re part of the problem. There will be consequences for you btw.
I find it intersting that we are seeing a return to Greyhawk and the D&D Cartoon characters which were the only real thing to come out of Gygax's Hollywood exile. It's like Gygax is no longer to be ignored and disrespected.
Oh, he'll be disrespected, don't worry about that. They're just replacing "ignored" with "milked for cash".
Gygax will be massively disrespected by these clowns.
They're wringing all the old stuff out for memberberries and cash profits, they will butcher it for sure.
WotC milks the nostalgia but at the same time tell the older games to fuck off because us older gamers aren't the demographics they're going after (see all the DEI changes and reminders that D&D history is "problematic.")
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Chaosium recently released a new Starter set for Pendragon ( last year ) and the year before they released a new edition of RuneQuest roleplaying in Glorantha.
This year they released Rivers of london & the updated BRP Basic roleplaying system.
For Chosium? Oh this could be gold.
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Call of Cthulhu, Pendragon (a new edition of this was due out last month), RuneQuest , Basic Roleplaying and Rivers of London are all live lines at Chaosium but everything seems to be stalled because they have decided to bung out something like 10 RuneQuest cult splat books which contain mostly text from previous publications.
Yes, the new Pendragon were
drag queen knights Discuss their pronouns.
Thundarr the Barbsrian is interesting thought it would better than a modern version of the d&d cartoon.
Probably mess that up too!
Thundarr was my favorite! Loved that cartoon when I was a wee lad.
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If it has any nostalgia, it's the nostalgia of looking at the cartoon and laughing at how stupid and silly it was and how it really didn't look like the D&D we were playing. It was a curiosity, not something we actually enjoyed.
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The audacity of hiring someone based on being good at the required job! How terribly business minded of them!
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Chaosium is producing quite a bit for Runequest, a new edition of Pendragon and LOTS of stuff for CoC.
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I loved the cartoon and have rewatched it with all (four) of my kids over the years. I even ran a mini-campaign based on the idea of kids getting sucked into Greyhawk. YMMV.
16:00 in he gets to the actual point.
Love ya Pundit!
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So no reason to but it since I have 5e!
Looking at Old School Essentials currently…
Landed on his feet so long as his feet stay a firmly a top tenser's floating disc of RPG employment
Well yeah. Anyone who isn't their own boss in the RPG industry is engaging in risk.
thundar was worthy, I think the shortness of the DM was more a play on Yoda than dwarves
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I'm a early millennial ( 1983 )
The cartoon was in syndication.
I only vaguely recall it.
I was born maybe 6 months after the D&D cartoon premiered. I know I didn't watch it when I was a toddler, perhaps it was just on a different channel than what I was tuned to, but I do remember most of the shows I did see in the 80s (David the Gnome, Maya the Bee, Thundercats, Silverhawks, Noozles, GI Joe, to name a few). I really enjoyed them as a kid, and in many cases the theme songs still hold up, but they really are just junk for little kids for the most part (maybe David the Gnome still holds up, IDK). I can't relate to people who get nostalgic about the shows themselves, the merch is more relatable. People have collected toys, stickers, trading cards, etc. forever.
I cannot relate to people who allow that nostalgia to be manipulated against them to get them to buy a book that will oppose everything they loved about the cartoon, the game, the hobby, and life in general. Spread the word, share the video!
gen z hates old stuff. old meaning literally anything older than 20 years ago at best.
Surely this can not be true all the best stuff is in the eighties or earlier
I don't know, they seem to have a lot of nostalgia.
I have worked with young people who literally won't watch any movies made before 2000, and my wife worked with kids who hated wizard of oz because "it's black and white", they literally didn't make it 20 minutes into the movie to see the color
I'm gen z. I /love/ old books, games and movies. The vast majority of stuff people are making these days is trash. I have read almost no books that were written on the last twenty years unless it was by an author I already knew of and liked. Not all of gen z lives on tiktok and advertises their lives 24/7.
Sorry if that came off a bit snippy.
Wild beyond the Witchlight is kind of lame, but that clown really saved it for me. Finally a character I can relate to.
Im fine with them using 1E property as long as they dont change it or put snowflake warnings on it.
Not buying it, but it doesnt bother me.
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Remember 2 things: (1) never forget that an official spokesperson for WotC (himself an old white guy) said that he can't wait for all the old white guys to leave the hobby. And (2) a leopard cannot change its shorts.
Was he white or part of a tribe?
Basic Roleplaying is a good system, hope it becomes a thing.
Some could argue it's been a thing, as Chaosium's house system, for 40 years.
I think hasbro can be planning a reboot/revival of the cartoon but for modern audiences, competing with Vox machina.
Obs.: i'm brasilian so you know i love that cartoon !
The problem is that the new one would be awful.
This is a golden time to make a awesome D&D 5e clone.
Maybe.
Does Chaosium still have the Pendragon licensed? I'm trying to think of other Fantasy games they ever produced I guess you could include elfquest...
Yes
Isn't Chaosium the company with no connection to Lovecraft or Arkham House that pretends it owns the Cthulhu mythos?
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Maybe Mearles can save CoC
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Chaosium is much more than Call of Cthulhu! Don't forget RuneQuest and Pendragon (both of which are current, and in fact RQ is a big seller).
I mentioned Runequest. And Elric.
10:50 I am pretty sure gamergate happened before consultantgate. No?
Nope. Consultantgate happened around may/june 2014. Gamergate happened in September 2014.
Does Mongoose Publishing still have their Legend and Historian Rodentis rpg line?
Legend is still available.
Tiamat isn't there? ~Brian
Some people are speculating tiamat might be on the cover of the Monster Manual.
Big fan of Dungeons & Dragons Cartoon and what they did just makes me hate them more. Bobby is eight years old, not a grown adult that is not Bobby. Though on the other hand I am shocked they have so many white males in their artwork since they have such a distain for them. But in the end, it doesn't matter what they put on the covers when what inside is already so corrupted.
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Trying to imagine what a woke version of stormbringer would be like...
Elric would be trans.
Chaosium is on the list of companies I no longer give my money to. Shame mike went there - while he may be woke, I have never heard him insult people, etc., etc. so I would have no issues supporting him if he made a product I wanted.
Yeah, I wouldn't buy something of Chaosium's today.
Don't they already publish Runequest?
Runequest, Call of Cthulhu, Pendragon, Rivers of London
@@the-real-Lovefist Right. So I think it'll be interesting. Is he basically managing existing properties and they waste a game designer by having no new games for him to design or is there a new game in their future?
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I don’t get Neckbeardia, I tried to listen to their review but they started attacking you in the first 7 minutes of a 2 hour video. Their takes are too woke for me, I always think I’ll like them from the titles of their video but I find them a tedious to listen to.
They get a bit silly, but at the end of the 2.5 hour video they say that they could recommend the book, even though they trash it a lot just because neither of them like OSR games.
D&D cartoon could only be so cool with all the constraints placed on America's kids' cartoons of the time.
First season Johnny Quest showed how good kids cartoons could be since it was made before the 'Concerned Mothers' arrived on seen to turn the Suck Dial up to 9 in the mid 70's. Second season Johnny Quest was made after the change in what was allowed, and holy heck there a big difference in how much coolness the show lost.
The difference was like that of the Road Runner vs Wile E. Coyote cartoons made for movie packages (movie + cartoon + news + serial shows like Perils of Pauline) and those made much cheaper for TV.
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Hey Pundit, I'm glad to see you're talking about the cartoon. I was 11 and just started the 6th grade when it first aired in Sept. 1983. I HATED it! It made me angry. There were a select few people around whom I could talk about D&D. I grew up in NYC and we all played sports 7/wk, 12/year. Many of us, almost all, were intrigued by D&D but only the guys who liked board/strategy games stuck with it. No girls played. NONE. Sorry folks, facts don't care about your feelings. We who liked the game would NEVER discuss it if a girl was in earshot. Period. Sisters made fun of us. Same with comics. No classmates in junior high knew I read comics. I had just been converted from war comics to superhero comics by Frank Miller with his DD run in 1982. So, the D&D cartoon set us back. We D&D players HATED it. It was juvenile and did NOT convert anyone to want to play. It only gave girls ammo to make fun of the intelligent boys they knew. The common criticism was the same as with the GI Joe cartoon: no one died. It was for kiddies and therefore was useless and hurt the game. It sucked then, and still is a stain on D&D legacy. Gary wasn't perfect.
I'm sure if I'd already been playing when it was on the air, I would have despised it.
Quite a lot of truth in this. Girls did not play, and/or generally mocked what they did not have the brains to understand. I didn't hate the D&D cartoon, but we saw it as not really connected to the game.
+1
I am all on board if he can reverse the race/sex swapping and other garbage at Chaosium.
I love CoC, way more than any fantasy RPG, but I am not buying any new edIition, only the old stuff on Ebay.
And Sandy Peterson is super-based.
Yeah, I doubt Mearls will make any changes to the Wokeness. He's a "go along to get along" type of guy.
Hmm. Chaosium is woke AF now, not too far behind WOTC - the new Pendragon is an abomination and the Cthulhu rulebooks make sure they shit on HPL.
They're still at least better than WotC in one respect: They are actually hiring some game designers, not just DEI-hires that have no experience in RPGs.
How is the new Pendragon an abomination? Not saying it isn't, genuinely asking as I have not read it. You are correct about their cynicism in exploiting HPL whilst dissing him in the introductions.
@@Norvik_-ug3ge I don't know if "abomination" is the right term for it, but it's like if they did a remake of Excalibur that was filled with diversity casting and "girl power".
Interesting news indeed. Hopefully Mike realizes he was hoisted on his own woke petard over at WotC and goes back into his old mode of just producing normal games for normal people.
I wouldn't call Chaosium "normal people" at the moment. The problem is that if you really want to go the route of being able to brag about being a salary-paid "industry" guy (as if that's anything to brag about), you are basically going to be working for some kind of woke lunatics. There are no real alternatives in the bigger companies.
I'm a millennial (unfortunately) and I like the cartoon show but yes most people my age haven't watched it. Also I hate other millennials.
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D&D cartoon was shitty back then, and it is still shiity. No nostalgia there for me. Trash IP.