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Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to Morris's unofficial tabletop RPG talk. I am Russ, aka Morris, or Morris, aka Russ, and with me this week is...
PJ Coffey from the Southampton Guild of Role Players. Russ, as ever, I am delighted to be here and joining us now. Some have claimed that she's artificially intelligent, but I say it's all the real thing. She is the acme of digital perfection. She's the one. She's the only.
It's... It's me, Jessica from EM Publishing. What an intro. Thank you very much.
Hmm. That would be quite good fun if it turned out that you were in fact a robot.
For who?
Well, for me.
Might be a bit of a Blade Runner experience for me, you know.
Yeah, I suppose so.
Have you had a good week?
Yes, it's been quite nice, thank you.
Yeah, launched the Gatepass Gazette annual on Backerkit, which is the first time we've done a Backerkit crowdfunding campaign. And people backed it. Which is good.
I am enjoying this. I'm pleased for you. This is good. At least four people backed it.
Possibly more. Yes, it is more than four.
It is more than four.
Yeah.
very very generous people okay shall we dive into some news because we've got a big week this week mainly about the upcoming dnd monster manual that's the big topic this week um because the whole publicity machine's kind of geared up now and it's all coming out like the big old fire hose of sort of monster manual news has been sort of spraying all over the internet but before that i thought we could do a couple of bits of non-dnd news And then do the Monster Manual stuff afterwards. How does that sound? Like a plan?
Sounds like a plan.
Okay. Right. Let's start with... Well, this is an interesting one. So there was an article recently by Polygon, which got a bit of pushback on social media. Mm-hmm. kind of in two minds about it i get why there was pushback but i also get why the situation is like it is being you know i publish news as well so i get it but basically it was um a longish article mainly talking about some of the missteps that dnd has taken over the last few years ogl um you know various controversies they've been involved i mean if if i might
read out the headline that might help people get some context for what's going on uh it's time for independent tabletop role-playing games to get loud subtitle the dragon is wounded and it's time to throw yourselves into the breach which is gonna ruffle some feathers
Well, it's the article more than the headline.
I imagine the article perhaps reflects the headline. That's why I'm saying how these things are supposed to work. But I interrupted. Please, please tell us more.
Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm being invaded by dogs yet again, as often happens on this show. So there's a general look at sort of the current state of D&D and it's a critical look. It's a D&D's not doing great at the moment kind of look in terms of controversies and things like that. Then it goes on to talk about indie creators and kind of criticizes them for, and I quote, sitting in their own little corners of the internet and wringing their hands. rather than being heard. Which was a phrase which a lot of indie creators did take exception to.
Yes, I can see a few indie creators on this very screen. Yes.
Every indie creator would love to have their... uh content on polygon and other sort of uh are they mainstream they're not sort of mainstream in the sense that the daily mail is but they are a lot more yeah yeah um so i i use the word mainstream then uh mainstream um sites they would absolutely love to have their stuff featured on sites like this and frequently they do send out press releases and things like that to these main sites
without getting a response or yeah so you know it's not like they're not trying yeah yeah like um rascal for instance is uninterested in things that don't affect north america um which yeah oh yeah yeah no um they they're just not interested it's like reached out myself um i know some people who've reached out with quite impressive stuff like um basically an indie role playing game with quite a bit of community behind it. And they've also been rejected in fairly uncompromising terms.
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