In "We're Using Wokeness To Cover Our Asses", Evil Hat shows their ass.
"We wanted to do a Terminator game, but couldn't afford the license and couldn't be bothered to do what Palladium did and make our own spin on it, so we'll use the IP of a guy we hate to make a shit take on the premise and use Woke Scolding to cover our asses." Pass on this, fam. https://t.co/NxCiZiFgOB
— Bradford C. Walker (@MrBCWalker) February 2, 2020
For those that are curious, this is what Palladium did: Splicers.
"Splicers® is a science fiction role-playing game set on a devastated world where machines rule, and human beings are vermin who are hunted and exterminated. The human struggle is complicated by a nano-virus that instantly turns metal objects touched by human flesh into killing machines. Consequently, humans have been forced to turn to organic technology to battle the world-dominating machines if they hope to reclaim any portion of their planet back for themselves."
Notice the difference here. Palladium took the concept of Teriminator, mixed with some other stuff, and made their own take. Evil Hat just swapped out Cthulhu for Skynet and called it a day, then thought that Woke Scolding would be enough to cover their asses. This did not go well; look at the replies to Evil Hat's tweet, and you'll see for yourself. They don't get any of this.
Fuck this. Play the real Call of Cthulhu if you want Lovecraft on your tabletop.
And if you want Terminator, give Uncle Kevin some dosh and buy his game. At least Kev gets the property he made his game in emulation of.
I like their Zeppelin attack game but it's kinda of weird to call someone racist when you literally turned Black people into Gorillas. See Gorilla Khan.
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