The nu TSR fiasco isn't a great thing to have on your track record, but I hope he comes out alright physically and mentally. It sucks having a family member suffering in the hospital.
He picked fights online, charged roughly 1,000 USD per game, allegedly did some shady stuff behind closed doors, and mishandled nuTSR to the point it fell under. Ernie has a bad history, but it would suck to see him go out like this.
Well, if we're also praying to God they're praying with us, and for us at the same time but yeah.
People have always prayed for the Lord to not take someone just yet. Might not be the most theologically sound thing to beg him for, but it's only human.
Rich c**ts want to say that they played a game with the son of Gary Gygax. That's really all there is to it.
I assume it would also be split between players. 250 or less ain't that bad a deal for a couple hours' fun and some good stories of the old days.
>Ernie Gygax
His biggest achievement in life is being named Ernest Gary Gygax Jr. and bunch of zoomers treating him like a god due to that.
Couldn't care less
Another fat frick dies. Who cares? >B-but Gygax
As if carrying a surname of his father qualified him for anything other than being a D-tier e-celeb for 5 seconds
Ernie said frick Black folk and God hates trannies so he's good in my book.
Even his father wasn't that great. Hell, Gary was basically a piece of shit who backstabbed almost everyone he ever worked with, and who worked hard to try and create a cult around himself. Anyone with any adoration or even just respect for the man should be aware that he originally tried to copyright the very concept of roleplaying games in an attempt to establish a monopoly, but thankfully courts ruled against him (on the obvious grounds that you can't copyright game rules, let alone rules with signifcant portions taken from other games) and left him with only a handful of "product identity" protections, like Beholders and Mindflayers.
Hell, anyone who doesn't think Gary was a talentless piece of shit just needs to pick up one of his failed novels. Even the most devout of his worshippers would have to agree that the man's reach far exceeded his grasp, to put it lightly. To put it more fairly, he was a soulless hack who only ever learned how to steal ideas he barely understood.
At least Gary could go in the aura of "creator of original DnD". Stealing or not and being butthole, along with genuinely clueless outside a very specific set of long-abandoned set of playstyle... but he still had something to claim. You know, he did SOMETHING at fricking all.
Ernie claim to fame is "my dad made DnD 50 years ago"
Another fat frick dies. Who cares? >B-but Gygax
As if carrying a surname of his father qualified him for anything other than being a D-tier e-celeb for 5 seconds
Even his father wasn't that great. Hell, Gary was basically a piece of shit who backstabbed almost everyone he ever worked with, and who worked hard to try and create a cult around himself. Anyone with any adoration or even just respect for the man should be aware that he originally tried to copyright the very concept of roleplaying games in an attempt to establish a monopoly, but thankfully courts ruled against him (on the obvious grounds that you can't copyright game rules, let alone rules with signifcant portions taken from other games) and left him with only a handful of "product identity" protections, like Beholders and Mindflayers.
Hell, anyone who doesn't think Gary was a talentless piece of shit just needs to pick up one of his failed novels. Even the most devout of his worshippers would have to agree that the man's reach far exceeded his grasp, to put it lightly. To put it more fairly, he was a soulless hack who only ever learned how to steal ideas he barely understood.
>To put it more fairly, he was a soulless hack who only ever learned how to steal ideas he barely understood.
You mean he's a daring entrepreneur and creative genius whose ideas may very well finally reveal why kids like sugary breakfast cereals?
Since then I've come to learn that maybe the initial Blackmoor combat system was a Strategos variant.
(By the time D&D published the Blackmoor Bunch was 100% using Chainmail, not disputing that).
>nice
That's unmasculine. Goodness and decency are Zionic psyops to weaken the souls of Hyperborean conquistadors. Abandon those feminizing orecepts and embrace your birthright as a destroyer of inferior races. Lie, cheat, steal, kill, rape. Extoll the virtues of Classical god-kings.
Honestly that's probably the best you could pray for. I don't know what stage of heart failure he's at but I've had so many family members that just continually go in and out of the hospital, and it ends the same way every time.
Why should I? The Gankerpilled way is to be selfish, mock others' suffering and wallow in solipsistic sophiatry because that's trad and based.
No, I don't play games.
>nice
That's unmasculine. Goodness and decency are Zionic psyops to weaken the souls of Hyperborean conquistadors. Abandon those feminizing orecepts and embrace your birthright as a destroyer of inferior races. Lie, cheat, steal, kill, rape. Extoll the virtues of Classical god-kings.
The newbie is trying to be a gross caricature of the average channer.
>gross caricature
To be fair, homosexuals really do be saying that kind of shit. We have at least one thread with a gigachad picture and "yes, I think evil is good and good is evil" every single day, if not an extremely thinly veiled /misc/ thread because underages and manchildren just cannot stop larping.
If Ernie dies, D&D dies with him. It is no longer a real game, it is a shell of its former self with no goal or meaning, just a bunch of multicolored furry freakshit following railroads and signing consent forms. I've listened to a bunch of D&D horror stories while bored at work, and the actual horror story isn't the problem player, it's the sterile cringy way that everyone acts around D&D now, like "bro let's kick this player from the group" like they kick players from the group all the time, they get upset when something happens that wasn't "discussed with the DM in the session zero" and they treat session zero like it is some fricking immutable requirement to play the game.
Not only that, but the rules are shit. Nothing for characters to do so the DM has to railroad them. At least in B/X, gold for XP means PCs have a reason to adventure. In some cases living expenses mean they have to. NuD&D also makes it almost impossible to die, PC damage out put is moronic. The game is just complete shit.
>I've listened to a bunch of D&D horror stories while bored at work
Stopped reading. People who only know about a subject from youtube should leave their commentary on youtube.
Roleplaying is overemphasized in D&D, in reality gold for xp is necessary for the resource management issues, D&D is actually a squad-based tactics dungeon crawler (pioneering the genre)
Roleplaying is overemphasized in D&D, in reality gold for xp is necessary for the resource management issues, D&D is actually a squad-based tactics dungeon crawler (pioneering the genre)
It's funny, but what happened to DnD mirrors real life as well.
Basically all the grand adventuring and spelunking were done primarily as a means to get rich and/or make ends meet.
Secondaries literally romanticized it as a divine quest, thirst for adventure, anything but, really.
Same thing here, the goal of any basic b***h player is to get rich and get fame and influence through various available means. Adventure is simply life experience.
New secondaries are there for the experience and bragging rights without any actual goal.
ENERGIZING!!!!
Prayers incoming
TAKE MY ENERGY ERNIE! YOU NEED IT MORE THAN I DO!
Please live Ernie so that the redditors can seethe.
The nu TSR fiasco isn't a great thing to have on your track record, but I hope he comes out alright physically and mentally. It sucks having a family member suffering in the hospital.
NuTSR is shit and Ernie is an butthole but I still don't want him to die. I hope he has a change of heart after recovering,.
>NuTSR is shit and Ernie is an butthole but I still don't want him to die.
Why do you lie?
He picked fights online, charged roughly 1,000 USD per game, allegedly did some shady stuff behind closed doors, and mishandled nuTSR to the point it fell under. Ernie has a bad history, but it would suck to see him go out like this.
>charged roughly 1,000 USD per game
oh
that's c**ty
like even for a masterclass dm with a good reputation I don't see that kind of money making sense per game
Rich c**ts want to say that they played a game with the son of Gary Gygax. That's really all there is to it.
Literally who?
Tenser
dont die you goober
Please live man.
why do burgers make fun of backwards shithole countries and then post stuff like this on the regular? thats not even how christianity works
>thats not even how christianity works
Said every Christian to every other Christian.
Protestantism is a form of judaism.
Whining to god is exactly how it works.
Blame the brit's king for that.
I mean I grew up Catholic and there's plenty of that too, plus asking saints to do it for us.
>I grew up Catholic
>asking saints to do it for us.
You can ask them to pray WITH you, not in your place, nor to save anyone.
Well, if we're also praying to God they're praying with us, and for us at the same time but yeah.
People have always prayed for the Lord to not take someone just yet. Might not be the most theologically sound thing to beg him for, but it's only human.
I assume it would also be split between players. 250 or less ain't that bad a deal for a couple hours' fun and some good stories of the old days.
Says the pagan who worships a woman and random people, lol.
Because the burgerland itself is a backwards shithole save for some lone islands of high tech that get cream of the world's scientific crop.
burgers can't be christians, they just use it as a front for televangelism and trafficking children
Also this
I'm an atheist, but that's close enough, israelites and atheists are equally unlikely to murder each other over religion.
>Ernie Gygax
His biggest achievement in life is being named Ernest Gary Gygax Jr. and bunch of zoomers treating him like a god due to that.
Couldn't care less
Ernie said frick Black folk and God hates trannies so he's good in my book.
Way to prove anon's point, zoomie
At least Gary could go in the aura of "creator of original DnD". Stealing or not and being butthole, along with genuinely clueless outside a very specific set of long-abandoned set of playstyle... but he still had something to claim. You know, he did SOMETHING at fricking all.
Ernie claim to fame is "my dad made DnD 50 years ago"
Another fat frick dies. Who cares?
>B-but Gygax
As if carrying a surname of his father qualified him for anything other than being a D-tier e-celeb for 5 seconds
Even his father wasn't that great. Hell, Gary was basically a piece of shit who backstabbed almost everyone he ever worked with, and who worked hard to try and create a cult around himself. Anyone with any adoration or even just respect for the man should be aware that he originally tried to copyright the very concept of roleplaying games in an attempt to establish a monopoly, but thankfully courts ruled against him (on the obvious grounds that you can't copyright game rules, let alone rules with signifcant portions taken from other games) and left him with only a handful of "product identity" protections, like Beholders and Mindflayers.
Hell, anyone who doesn't think Gary was a talentless piece of shit just needs to pick up one of his failed novels. Even the most devout of his worshippers would have to agree that the man's reach far exceeded his grasp, to put it lightly. To put it more fairly, he was a soulless hack who only ever learned how to steal ideas he barely understood.
>To put it more fairly, he was a soulless hack who only ever learned how to steal ideas he barely understood.
You mean he's a daring entrepreneur and creative genius whose ideas may very well finally reveal why kids like sugary breakfast cereals?
Not to disagree with you but to ask for clarification on two things I am wondering relating to this:
1. Wasn't Blackmoor made to be a kingdom in Gary's Castle & Crusaders society?
2. Was the initial combat system of Blackmoor not Chainmail?
Thank you for correcting me if I am wrong.
Since then I've come to learn that maybe the initial Blackmoor combat system was a Strategos variant.
(By the time D&D published the Blackmoor Bunch was 100% using Chainmail, not disputing that).
Ernie's a nice guy, genuinely. That should be enough.
>nice
That's unmasculine. Goodness and decency are Zionic psyops to weaken the souls of Hyperborean conquistadors. Abandon those feminizing orecepts and embrace your birthright as a destroyer of inferior races. Lie, cheat, steal, kill, rape. Extoll the virtues of Classical god-kings.
Imaging announcing you're a fatherless whelp to the entire internet.
lol
lmao even
Literally none of what you claimed is true. Not a damn thing.
Oh father who art in Heaven
Please grant this man a
swift and painless passing
Amen
Honestly that's probably the best you could pray for. I don't know what stage of heart failure he's at but I've had so many family members that just continually go in and out of the hospital, and it ends the same way every time.
Amen.
>Prayers
If he's too poor to afford medical care, he should just set up a gofundme instead.
The prayer is sent.
The Christ is watching.
I hope Ernie proves worthy.
Do you think d20s made out of the children of Gygax's teeth roll better?
Too small to read.
Eh nothing to worry about, i am sure the doctors would resurrect him with diamonds
Energies for Ernie put out into the Universe.
I don't care for him personally, but I send him energy (and hopefully wisdom to GTFO from nu-TSR).
Praying for him
Rolled 30 (1d100)
Rollan for LIFE
Take my +1 mace, Ernie.
Why should I? The Gankerpilled way is to be selfish, mock others' suffering and wallow in solipsistic sophiatry because that's trad and based.
No, I don't play games.
The newbie is trying to be a gross caricature of the average channer.
>gross caricature
To be fair, homosexuals really do be saying that kind of shit. We have at least one thread with a gigachad picture and "yes, I think evil is good and good is evil" every single day, if not an extremely thinly veiled /misc/ thread because underages and manchildren just cannot stop larping.
>using the word channer
I think you are as much a newbie as he is.
If Ernie dies, D&D dies with him. It is no longer a real game, it is a shell of its former self with no goal or meaning, just a bunch of multicolored furry freakshit following railroads and signing consent forms. I've listened to a bunch of D&D horror stories while bored at work, and the actual horror story isn't the problem player, it's the sterile cringy way that everyone acts around D&D now, like "bro let's kick this player from the group" like they kick players from the group all the time, they get upset when something happens that wasn't "discussed with the DM in the session zero" and they treat session zero like it is some fricking immutable requirement to play the game.
Not only that, but the rules are shit. Nothing for characters to do so the DM has to railroad them. At least in B/X, gold for XP means PCs have a reason to adventure. In some cases living expenses mean they have to. NuD&D also makes it almost impossible to die, PC damage out put is moronic. The game is just complete shit.
>I've listened to a bunch of D&D horror stories while bored at work
Stopped reading. People who only know about a subject from youtube should leave their commentary on youtube.
>you mentioned doing something
>therefore it's the only thing you've ever done
moronic strawman
>I've listened to a bunch of D&D horror stories while bored at work
Secondhand Reddit stories are not a good basis for forming opinions.
>If Ernie dies, D&D dies with him.
No, Luke is still around. He’s the decent Gygax.
Roleplaying is overemphasized in D&D, in reality gold for xp is necessary for the resource management issues, D&D is actually a squad-based tactics dungeon crawler (pioneering the genre)
It's funny, but what happened to DnD mirrors real life as well.
Basically all the grand adventuring and spelunking were done primarily as a means to get rich and/or make ends meet.
Secondaries literally romanticized it as a divine quest, thirst for adventure, anything but, really.
Same thing here, the goal of any basic b***h player is to get rich and get fame and influence through various available means. Adventure is simply life experience.
New secondaries are there for the experience and bragging rights without any actual goal.
Ernie don't die, you still have more really dumb, but hilarious, business decisions to make.
Gygax, more like Gaygax. Ha gottem
Praying for his health, whoever he is.
Who cares?