My Life As A Gamer: Aping Sark The Shark's Scheme Is Criminal

Can you imagine saying this about a published ttrpg writer who wrote an adventure for @RTalsorianGames' The Witcher ttrpg and who is currently writing an adventure for @redscargaming's official Hellboy ttrpg? lmao
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— the dislocating GM🦓 combat wheelchair creator (@mustangsart) August 20, 2020

Ok Im gonna say it. You're grifting a protection racket here.

If WOTC doesn't give you money, you pull a hit job on them right?

That's alway the modus operandi, right

— Bielie (@BieljamBene) August 20, 2020

Yes, it is a protection racket. Yes, this will follow non-compliance. Given how small the tabletop RPG world is, even some nobody like this--if he's in with ResetEra, RPGNet, etc. or noticed by someone who is--can pull a successful racket of this sort. It's the same scam Sarkesian runs on videogames, using feminism instead of ableism, just on a smaller scope and scale.

"Hire me or I will use the power of the media to defame you and interfere with your business", stated or implied, is the threat. It doesn't have to get on TV or the radio, or be printed in a magazine. It need only get to where the hit will do damage, and today that's social media sites as well as hobby forums (e.g. RPG Net), especially for a small scene like tabletop gaming.

And it counts if it gives cover to another's move to do the same; the end matters.

And therefore this is a crime, but it's the follow-through on the threat that makes it so. Nonetheless, I'd archive this and wait. If the hit materializes, drop a dime to the Feds (as this inevitably involves crossing state lines or other boundaries that allow the Feds to get involved); they like easy collars as much as any other law-enforcement agency. Include the archive links. While they laugh at the racket being pointed out today, they won't be laughing when they get arrested for it down the road. Federal prison is not a nice place for people like them.

And that's the nice result. There is worse.