Oh lovely, another bigot in the RPG industry

[dorchadas]

This is news from last week, but I've just seen it now--apparently the current owners of the Judges Guild are massive Nazis. Like, just verbatim Nazi propaganda. Content warning, obviously.

I didn't get into D&D until Second Edition, so this era of D&D totally passed me by, but I do remember playing in a 1e game with a friend in elementary school who was drawing inspiration from their City-State of the Invincible Overlord. The closest connection I had is that etainemccul was dating, and later married, Robert Bledsaw I's nephew, though I lost contact with both of them a long time ago.

Looks like DriveThruRPG removed Judges Guild products from sale, to keep the money from going toward Nazis. And even places that whine about "SJWs" or "cancel culture" are condemning this because it's so obviously beyond the pale there's no defending it (I mean, Skarka's Law still applies, but).

Number of days I've gone without seeing Nazi propaganda: 0.

Comments

[earthspirits]

How utterly revolting. Well, I'm sure this will kill their business with most people. And deservedly so.

[omnipotent]

Yikes. That's downright monstrous. I hope they are unable to recoup their financial losses from this.

[tcpip]

A couple more links on these rather distasteful individuals (II and III).

https://www.facebook.com/tim.kask.9/posts/2589143264528261

https://adventuresingaming2.blogspot.com/2020/02/regarding-robert-bledsaw-i-and-bobs.html

[dorchadas]

The first link is either deleted or unavailable to me, though the second one strikes a chord--I've still never read any Greyhawk or Blackmoor anything, but the first D&D game I was ever in took place in the Wilderlands.

[tcpip]

Ah, Tim probably has it f-locked. But it does bring up the issue of the III, following in the footsteps of the II.

I think I'm going to talk about this in the editorial of the next RPG Review.

[captaincassidy]

It's disturbing and shocking how many people are Actually Nazis. I'm still reeling from the thought.

A quick google search later... oof. It's a wonder how these people skirted by unnoticed for so long.

[dorchadas]

Yeah. They...certainly weren't being subtle about it.