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The other day a leader of the Old School whateveR, John Tarnowski, told me that I have an inferiority complex. He also called me a troll. which considering the title of this blog and my interpretation of the term "troll" differs from him and his ilk thinks is MUCH DIFFERENT in definition. I mean they have perfected their definition back during the Mens' Rights movement way back when. But, yes I tell people when I disagree with their espoused beliefs.
To explain the context, I was responding to his list of gamers that should be included in a progrom when his rightwing, and now openly, after a decade of denying it, anti-Tranny supporters in a cyber-encased faction take over the role playing industry. He basically promised that things would come to fruition if the Tabletop Gamers that did not subscribe to his point of view would just go away. What I actually got upset at was his implication that tall, skinny elves had a lot of historical basis outside of JRR Tolkien's Elf-Punk of the 50s, but he probably isn't well read enough to know that. His spiel is about about sales.

Well overall, I outsell him. He might not just know the math because he and few others don't actually understand the industry of Tabletop Role-playing Gaming (TTRPG). He thinks that if he is published by someone else that his works has a stamp of quality because other those people might not be just lazy. He doesn't look beyond the fact that he is really doing mostly self-publishing as a way to makes ends meet and then getting some other publishing firm to get his self-proclaimed big products out. Over a few months, they too will be profitable. All of our works in the TTRPG Cottage industry are profitable in the end, but outside of DTRPG metrics, it is who is buying them. Personally, I can sell 25$ (Canadian) on DTRPG. Meanwhile my long term fans still buy the PDF/printed products from Amazon for 100Eu and a group of GMs from Lulu will total about 300$ (AMERICAN). That is the reason my art, my writers, my editors, and whatnot tends to be original and very fresh.

One cover on _Star Adventurers_ does not make affluence. Sorry good D20 to Star Wars take but the art is lacking. You cannot afford any real art. I get it.

Overall yet again. I like the guy. He is some orthodox D20 Russian trying to sell to the RPG Finn in me his dominance when I see his failings empirically. As many scandals that he can latch on to or conjure (which he doesn't do too often), he produces product. I like products coming out. Still the bullshit leaves a bad smell in the air.

Then another day another GM guy and I were talking. I say GM because he is in his 20s and is not insulted to be called a "game master" and not the more imposing DUNGEON MASTER. I enjoy his enthusiastic thrill about roleplaying in general and he apparently appreciates the quick thoughts I have on the angles he sells to players. As usual, I had to speak fluent D&D language, basically like a Finn speaking to a Russian, while constantly identifying myself as a non-D&D TTRPGer. We go into some great depth in our RPG game theory and approaches mostly because our work schedules keep us from playing at the same table at the same time, but oh the joy of discussing RPG and fantasy.
That new guy has some thoughts on a published work.
He states that he is not happy with WotC dumbing things down. He does not, though, accuse everyone of ideological crimes.