Why is it whenever I try to find any info out about this game I find posts full of edgy “haha I killed that, are U mad?” assholes and borderline “race realists”?

Ffs I just wanted to find a post that would help me avoid killing Kobolds and the one posts I find asking the question is full of edgelords bragging about how they love to kill “vermin” races and gays.

This is what you get when you make a fantasy world were certain races are born evil, it attracts all the racist freaks that want to live out their genocide fantasies.

It’s killing my fun for this game.

  • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    15·
    3 days ago

    Gary Gygax was…um…more than a bit questionable himself.

    In an online forum post he commented that killing goblin babies is normal (if not inherently good) and compared it with…well…so apparently there was a military general responsible for the mass killing of indigenous people who said of the killing of children ‘nits make lice’, and Gary used this quote to explain why killing goblin babies was fine. He used an example of a person saying this about human beings for why he supported killing fictional infants. There are many awful excuses he could have used, but I genuinely don’t think he could have used a worse one than this.

    • Blakey [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Well, yeah. Gygax fucking sucked ass. I certainly wasn’t trying to say he was GOOD, he ok’d the dark elf bullshit.