My Life As A Gamer: The Pundit Reports Good News

The Pundit talks about how the SJWs trying to converge the Old School Renaissance keep tripping themselves up.

What these SJWs can't deal with is that the OSR is decentralized. Convergence only works upon something with a fixed form, such as a corporation or a state agency. Formless groups are blobs, and react in the same way that beating water with a stick does. This means that there's no central organ to seize, and through which to spread the poz, so the task requires a different and more tedious approach- and grunt SJWs don't have the stomach or the intelligence to do that.

Mind you, this is before taking the #BROSR into account. This is just doing things the way that the Pundit and those sharing his position approach things, and look how poorly these would-be totalitarians do against it.

Now imagine, if you will, that someone were to take full advantage of the legal foundation of the OSR--the Open Game License--and reverse-engineer Official D&D from the d20 System just as the OSR did to legally recreate every edition prior to D&D 3rd Edition. Imagine that someone were to get his clone into storefronts online and realspace, and then market his clone as "Made by people that don't hate customers."

You can hear the screeching from orbit, can't you?

The OSR is nimble enough to do that. Furthermore, by being very careful to avoid trademark and trade dress issues while clearly communicating that this clone can replace Official Product--things that were already done with past editions, successfully--you can undercut Wankers By The Beach and damage those SJWs' operations. (You'll need to improve your social media game also, but that's for another post.)

The best part? You can do this as a self-sustaining hobby like Chris Gonnerman does with Basic Fantasy, and making your clone that cheap also makes irresistable to many people. Why spend $30 or more when you can get the same substance for less than $6 in print and free in PDF? If you already have a day job or some other business that pays your bills and more, that's a viable option and given we live in a Print On Demand world you can do this indefinately at no cost to you.

We really do underestimate what power is at our fingertips at times.

Take heart from the Pundit's video. The OSR is an example of successfully changing the shape of the battlefield to defeat the enemy's usual methods and the doctrines behind them, so don't think it's impossible to do so.