chapotraphouse

lmao I’d love to watch a campaign like that. The party consistently doing the right thing while the DM just seethes more and more.

Players consistently rolling on being based checks while the Zionist prick seethes is just so funny

The first thing every DM learns is that the group will never do what you want them to.

I can picture it now

He was probably like You have to enforce the status quo, they're feeble savages!

And the players were like No, we will shatter their chains and free them from the yoke of tyranny

i had a DM boot me from a campaign for 'being manipulative' and 'murder hoboing' after i kept killing blatantly racist nazi characters that our multicultural nation was fighting to survive genocide against. said that i didnt ever give the DM time to roleplay things (because i would gat the nazis in the head with a critfish build). maybe make less cartoonishly evil characters? why would i ever talk to a guy that kills babies

i also unknowingly joined a campaign where the dm admitted that all the goblins the players were killing were jews after i pressed him on his monologue about goblin bankers

It's also funny, because said DMs set themselves up to make the anti-semitism allegations as unconvincing as possible, because the players had no idea who the groups were based on.

DM: "You see a music festival outside the concentration camp."

Player: "I roll for initiative."

DM: "Against the enemies in the concentration camp right?"

Players: "..."

DM: "Against the unarmed goblins inside the concentration camp... Right?"

my first time playing a ttrpg was a very odd pathfinder campaign about escaping a slave plantation. this was in kentucky so the vibes were off. whole thing ended up sideways when the dm that cooked that up couldn't stop getting too hammered for us to make progress.

Ahahah holy shit

So it was a Star Wars tabletop right? Lmao

I believe it because whoever that guy is did this with the whole of Last of us 2.

Neil Druckmann moment.

Common Zionist L

It would be funny if the DM thought the problem was that they didn't make it obvious enough the Israel analogy was meant to be Israel, so they try to make it more obvious, but then the players think the DM is a neo-nazi doing a Jewish conspiracy allegory.

I love this stuff. One of my favorite sessions of D&D ever was when I was running the classic three parter The Desert of Desolation, and in the second part of that trilogy there's a bit where the players are looking for a missing princess and one of their leads is a group of Drow slavers operating under the city, and of course the instant the players learned that there were slavers they dropped everything to crush them and free the slaves. I was so proud.

I bet some of those players are still here, actually. We should play again.

what do you expect from a hobby invented by white boys with literal 'race' mechanics that determine your objective 'alignment' in older editions and still play into racial caricatures to this day ('noble savage' orcs instead of just murdering hordes, elves as even special-er white people) and even in the best case scenario only encourage race-based divisions whether based on stats or just aesthetic, after all its a lot more reasonable to be 'racist' against a species of literal giant green monsters with boar tusks (that even if a 'good guy' is constantly being whispered to by their Evil God that created them, in most DnD lore at least) than it is to be racist against a human with more melanin in their skin. and the usual semi-historical settings come pre-baked with implicit old-timey attitudes, people expect swords and sorcery type settings to maintain the patriarchy and nationalism pop culture associates with our own history for the most part even if Player Characters are the Special Chosen One that Bucks the Trend. I mean even outside of DnD, how many fantasy media products even cricticise monarchy? how many protagonists are the Rightful Heir that needs to reclaim their Tragically Lost Throne from the Evil Guy?

It takes effort to salvage a worthwhile story out of something like that, and a lot of people just do the easiest/laziest thing and play to the genre tropes. it's hard enough running a tabletop RPG without interrogating the system's racial biases, or that of your own writing, and most people simply won't bother. to the average non-politically aware person, the races become a visual shorthand for real life groups or assumed historical groups, 'elves' are 'cultured europeans' (french, english, etc), 'orcs' are 'misguided savages' at best, 'murdering subhuman invaders' at worst (muslims, mongols, slavic people, etc) 'gnomes' are 'incomprehensible insular artisans' (jews), 'halflings' are 'nomadic pastoralists' (roma) 'dwarves' are 'industrious europeans' (german, irish, etc.). It's obviously not the only way to write fantasy, but for most people this is what 'fantasy' means to them, a bunch of cultural and racial caricatures fighting each other with magic and swords, because its the laziest and easiest to write that way in our society, given the cultural context, genre assumptions, and history of development of the fantasy genre.

Torturing the DM is a time-honored practice, this just turns it into praxis

I remember watching Sausage Party, the terrible Seth Rogan movie. At the end it's revealed that the movie is an allegory for the Palestine-Israel conflict lol. I don't remember which side it picked, but the ending was all the food items having sex with each other

Sounds like they found a good group of players.

Can someone explain the "into DnD but also a Zionist" archetype? Why do I keep seeing geeks consuming very-much-not-fascism media, while siding with fascism irl?

There must be a pipeline, it's like the reverse effect of WH40k fandom

One time I had an idea for a campaign where the players are goblins in a goblin land under dwarven colonial occupation, never did anything with it but I knew the dwarves would fear and crack down on goblin traditional brewing and alchemy, because the goblin witches can make poison powders and liquids that sink effortlessly between the plates of the heavy armor the dwarves rely on for military supremacy. Only tangentially connected in my mind to Palestine because I didn't really know about it yet, but wanted to share a campaign that never was.

This story sounds implausible. “Saturday Session DM?” Like there are multiple, regularly meeting games?

Pull the other one.

I like that u/mugrimm still gets posted here, he was an r/cth mod and prolific poster back in the day. Has some DC connections.